Will.iam

Interesting that the link no longer works. Is that because they only keep a limited number of days back or is it because the NTSB is investigating it?

Well that’s the beauty of an Tower controlled airfield as i have never seen one that wasn’t at least 3000ft long and the more busy ones that have jets requiring you to keep your speed up are mostly 5000ft and up. One time going into dfw at 13,400ft runway, i needed Z taxiway at almost the end of the runway and they wanted me to keep my speed up, i said no problem if you let me land past midfield. They approved and i was 160kts over the threshold and still got slowed down gear extended and no flaps landing as that would be too slow rolling to the next highspeed exit if i put in flaps. I didn’t even use my brakes and had to keep the power up to not delay on the runway while exiting on to the taxiway.

I have learned over time using a humidity monitor humidity is relative. It’s like asking way is my air conditioner only cooling down my house to 80 degrees when it’s 120 outside. They are only good for about a 40 degree delta spread and my humidifier is just an air conditioner without the cooling. When it’s raining and hot (think summertime) humidity will be 90 to 95% in the hanger. With ny humidifier running non stop the best i can bring it down to is 60%. If it was in an inclosed system like a sealed hanger to where i was dehumidifying already dehumidified air i could bring it further down but this setting gives the humidifier time to cool down from running a long time.

Ah maybe i miss understood as 200-300 per month woukd be more believable.

Where in the world did he get yearly operating cost of $200-$300? Even if that was based on old $2 per gall gas prices which is unobtainium now, that would be only 100 gallons of gas and at 10 gallons per hour only 10 hours of use for a year. I think he forgot to add a zero on to those numbers. It’s this kind of vastly over optimistic prices that uninformed people read about and think oh i could fly around in my airplane and it only cost me $200-300 dollars a year to operate. Then they get a plane and are hugely disappointed when it cost ten times the amount they read about.

See a happy customer. If I didn’t already have O2 installed I would get one of those. Still might if refills get too expensive in the future.

As an option have you looked into a Gen5 oxygen concentrator? They are tested up to 18k for 2 people and you wouldn’t have to worry about refills.

My airplane when I got it had champion spark plugs and even though it ran fine I. E. 15 to 20 degrees LOP. One day I ran across the info that spark plugs should have 5k ohms or less so on my next oil change I took the plugs out to measure them on my voltmeter and they were all over the place with only 3 plugs passing the >5k ohms test all the rest were over the 5k limit but 2 plugs had over 100k ohms and one plug took the top honors of 2 million ohms! I could not believe that one was even working! I bought all fine wire and measured them before putting them in and all were >1k ohms. I did see my fuel flow reduce 0.5 gal per hour flow rate for the same speed and temperatures on my cht’s now how much of that was due to fine wire and how much of that was due to bad plugs I don’t know (my guess would be 30% fine wire and 70% getting rid of bad plugs and having a more balanced set) but I can now go LOP to 90 degrees before getting rough.

Blackstone lab knows when you use or suspects when MMO is used as the viscosity of the oil is lower than what’s normal. That’s why tgere is a section on the form for listing additives and how much you put in so they can account for the lower viscosity value. Blackstone labs could also tell when i started running lean of peak ops as there was lower fuel contaminants and when i started running a dehumidifier they noted i had little to no water in my oil samples and asked me what i was doing differently to account for the change.

Totality center goes through Kerrville, Tx at 1:32pm. My house north of dfw gets 32 seconds of totality but will fly out to sulfur springs airport KSLR as it gets 4 mins 15 seconds of totality enough time to feel the temperature drop during that time. Cool app that counts down the time to C1 C2. C3 and C4 called solar eclipse timer in the Apple Store. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/solar-eclipse-timer/id1203105865

1+ for jake at bevan’s aviation. They not only calibrated my freshly overhauled ADI to the autopilot but they are one of the few places that STILL can do repair work on garmin 530w as i had a button that was intermittent that they fixed. One if not the only place that will do that at an hourly rate instead of a flat fee.

Also went with maggie when i installed my surefly and had them do the slick mag harness side as well. Looks great works great going on 2 years now no complaints.

I know it’s aways out but wanted to give plenty of time so as to make plans if you want to go. I hate getting notice at the last minute and thus not beibg able to get off work to go see an event. Hope to see some fellow mooniacs out there.

Congrats on another mystery solved.

Actually i don’t think my nose drops at all or very little. It feels like the plane rotates at about the engine section point and the part behind the engine lowers down as the speed bleeds off to the runway and then i relax the backpressure on the yoke and the nose comes down after that