GeeBee
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On some airplanes, airliners in particular if you just chock the nose wheel, the weight on the nose wheel becomes very light during disembarkation, because the airplane unloads front to back. Eventually the airplane can jump the nose wheel chock. King Airs, especially the 200 series and up can also do it very easily.
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Oh yeah, I got a chocks in signal from the ramp guy once, but they chocked only the nose wheel. When it jumped the chock, 300,000 pound wide body went rolling downhill towards another wide body behind it. Thank God I was able to jump into the seat and stop it with accumulator brake pressure. Even a Mooney size airplane once it starts rolling is difficult to stop with anything other than brakes.
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Better to forget to remove them than forget to insert them and have the airplane roll.
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The wording is suspect. "will bring new production aircraft from January 2026". Bad sentence syntax and I suspect someone who has English as a second language (most likely in China) is attempting a play of some kind.
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AKA, "The sanity check"
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But have you had to land because someone forgot to go to before departure?
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Sort of particular to a Mooney. Go before you go. Make sure your passengers go before you go. No matter how fast or high we go the entire operation is slaved to bowels and bladders. Nothing worse than settling down on a long flight someone saying: On airliners, I've seen airborne returns for failure to preflight the waste tanks at great cost to company and passengers.
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Gear pins. Seen it twice. Causes airborne returns The most unusual was a pax window plug left in by maintenance. Blew out at 6000’ from the pressure load. Poor F/O who did the walkaround had to do a complete requalification. My rule on GA IS always go to the front of the a/c before getting in and do “sanity check”
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Ly-Con options on IO-360-A1A Overhaul
GeeBee replied to Vance Harral's topic in Vintage Mooneys (pre-J models)
I had an O-320B2B (160 hp) ported and polished by Gann along with the case seal, main dowels etc. The thing was a monster. It turned 173 on the dyno and ran like a top. Look, it takes a lot of power to increase speed as it is a square function but rate of climb is directly related. Having a 10% increase in rate of climb is not insignificant. -
Trust me, they are not tight enough.
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My theory is halon will counter act the oxygen generation of the burning lithium cell. Not sure how much halon it takes, but I suspect a lot.
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My First Officer's Microsoft Surface tablet started smoking. This is right after we got them. We did not have the PED bags and we were over the North Atlantic. The procedure said do not submerge in water......but it said nothing about ice. So I had the Purser bring up a huge bucket of ice and I slammed it into the ice with Halon standing by. It all stopped. Problem solved.
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Motorcraft Silicon Gasket Remover will soften the RTV sufficient to easily remove anything potted in RTV. It sometimes requires a few applications and an overnight sit but it will work. I discovered this stuff trying to remove lenses potted in RTV on my landscape lights. It works really good and does not seem to harm paint. Amazon has it.
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If it is not working, the most common failure point is the diode in the field wire. So check that before removing the alternator.
