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Yeah, I read that on their site, as I said it’s amazing how many people will spend their time and money, to make others money, because you know someone is making money from that, how I’m not sure. ‘You do what you can I guess, I’m just astonished it’s legal, so far as I know you can’t do that with automobiles etc.

Yep you guys are right, the guys over there on twincessna.org are doing it all wrong, they don’t know what it cost to own and fly their aircraft.

First time it happened to me on the 210, I went full rich and boost on to try to keep temps on that cyl down. After the first time of doing all of that I didn’t richen up, boost etc, just let that cylinder lean out and die,of course it cooled way off then, and I wasn’t slobbering the others with fuel. Seems to be a better way of dealing with it. ‘Of course that was a 6 cyl, but I believe even a four will run OK smooth on three A handheld IR thermometer will find the bad cylinder instantly for those that may not have an engine monitor, even your hand usually will. ‘Monitors are nice to have, it’s maybe my next purchase, I’ll go with the UBG-16 because the owner is a friend.

I don’t have the tooling like I used to, and I got spoiled working in a aircraft factory where pieces parts and machinists / welders etc was free. ‘I’m also airplane poor at the moment so today I’m going to Lowe’s and buying some pipe and knocking something easy together and use the golf cart, just have to be real careful and I assume I’ll be OK. ‘Both my knees are shot, really years beyond needing replacing and I can’t do Sun-N-Fun because of it, been afraid of the surgery and waiting until the replacements get better and me to be old enough so a set ought to last the rest of my life, so pulling an airplane by hand is way harder on me than it used to be, yesterday I got the Mooney out so I could fly the 140 around and my knees hurt so bad I didn’t sleep well last night, so off to Lowe’s I go. Eventually I may buy Don Muncy’s tow bar once funds free up. I hope it’s Ok to say that, it’s several hundred dollars cheaper than most alternatives and his colors worked out well for me.

Ref C-310 costs per hour to fly, about $350 to $400 an hour? What's it cost to fly a Mooney? https://twincessna.org/pdf/What Does it Cost to Own a 310 in 2020.pdf Go argue with them, cause they clearly are frauds and don’t know what they are talking about. Then use this place as a reference for a J model,

Sure you guys go buy your old twins and fly them on less than it cost to fly a Mooney. See how long it takes that bubble to burst, if you have a six figure fund to cover the gotcha you’ll be fine, maybe. You did defer maintenance as by your own admission you only overhauled one engine in that time, and overflew a TBO, if overflying TBO isn’t deferring maintenance, then please tell me what your definition of deferring maintenance is? Yeah, I’m just an old fat guy in his Mama’s house, I’ve not been a professional pilot and mechanic since 1982, not like you real Pro’s. And no. I’m not posting my personal data just to become some kind of internet celebrity. Like I said, reach out to AOPA or believe that those sources are delusional if you want to, and you can if fact fly a much more expensive airplane for less money, it’s just all the suckers that don’t know that. Anyone can get lucky flipping houses or boats or airplanes, most it eventually catches up to them, some it doesn’t. Some smoke their whole lives and get away with it, you can’t determine trends from one case.

Surely there are good websites that compute cost of ownership? Maybe AOPA does?

Owning an airplane or car or boat for a year or two doesn’t reflect cost of ownership. You’ll of course argue that you didn’t defer maintenance, but you did. ‘Guy I bought my airplane from owned it for a couple of years and flew it a few hundred hours and stated it only cost him the Annuals. ‘So we can infer from that, that owning a M20J if flown 200 hours a year and an Annual cost $2,000 is only $10 an hour. ‘Try to explain that the engine cost alone is more than twice that, to say nothing of the prop etc and he’ll say it’s not true, I did it on only $10 an hour. Normally you’ll take the hit in depreciation on sale, but if your lucky or smart or whatever you ascribe to be, you may buy low and sell high and not take the hit. ‘For instance I met a couple that bought houses and fixed them up while living in them for a year or two and resold them, and always made money on the deal, this was before 2008 though. I wasn’t there but I’d bet lunch that came to a ugly end in 08 though

Looked up the ADSB exchange thing, there are a lot of nuts out there willing to spend their own money and time to make some people they will never meet money I guess. Brave New World I guess

So where do they get the data? Do they have their own receivers? Surely the registration data is FAA? Why do they exist? what’s the purpose? Who funds them?

A way to test if fuel contaminants are biological is to put bleach on it and see if it reacts, changes color. Jet fuel and Diesel trick because they can get asphaltanes and make some think they have “bugs” Does anything grow in Avgas? I don’t think anything does? ‘Fuel truck filter breaking down is the most logical to me, but I cannot explain it being on the wrong side of the screen. Anything that happens to a motor can’t get into the fuel

No one answers the phone anymore, the Dr. office no one, well I guess us old farts do but the rest of the world txts and sends emails. ‘Maybe it’s all of the Spam calls? I guess you need to go there and see them, your going to do that anyway, I’d fly there at least then they know your st least a pilot. The other thing about kids is they are unrealistic, worse than we were as kids, the kid that delivered propane to my house stated he was going to get his helicopter license. In other words it’s real likely 99 out of 100 calls are unrealistic dreamers, after awhile you just quit listening. Fly in in your airplane and you’ll probably get a different response.

I’ve been very pleased with this. just buy a spray bottle or reuse one, but $14 for a half gallon and it works well.

Interesting, yes that was part of the ILS, but only part. I had a squawk and was up approach for the whole arc, missed etc. ‘Wonder if that was a fluke, or are they receiving ADSB themselves and not relying on the the FAA to provide data? Just looked and there is no history available for all of March and only the 6th of Apr? I’ve of course flown more than that

121.5 and 243.0 ELT’s are worthless, no one even monitors the frequencies anymore, but you have to have something, Congress said so.

Had a C-210 that did it regularly enough that I flew with a can of carb cleaner and wrench and deep well socket. ‘The can of carb cleaner with the straw works really well, just be darned sure none sprays back into your eye, you’ll only let that happen once. ‘Ended up being a fuel hose coming apart, pull screens and if you find what looks like little black granules I bet that’s it.

No, actually he’s correct, it’s absolutely the least damaging way to clean plexiglass, even a micro fiber towel will trap dirt and or insect exoskeletons and that will scratch the window, your hand won’t trap it and you can feel it it’s there. Ideally a clean hand with flowing fresh water for the initial cleaning, followed with some mild soap, once clean and dry then go with the plexus or favorite plastic polish. First your trying to remove the dirt etc without causing any damage, then once clean, polish if desired or Rain-X whatever. Rain-X from my experience is excellent and doesn’t hurt anything, and rain just flies off of it. I don’t fly in icing, but have wondered if it helps there? The pledge was a trick I learned in the Army, the theory is it fills in scratches so you don’t see them.

There is no free lunch, so a winglet shifts the lift vector forward and develops thrust, but not more thrust than there is drag, so it’s a reduction in drag, but the drag still exceeds the thrust, other wise it’s a perpetual motion machine ‘Of course a winglet works better at high angles of attack, so on a GA airplane like ours there is only added weight and drag as we don’t fly in cruise at high angles of attack. ‘I know we aren’t talking specifically about winglets, but in truth we are, as he said, take a winglet 1/3 wingspan and lay it flat. ‘To make his proposition most useful, you dump the fuselage, maybe have a blended body like a B-2, but no tubular fuselage like we are used to, and no rudder. he didn’t say no tail. but i’d suspect that’s the eventual end. Who knows, maybe we will live to see one, and maybe we will live to see average people flying above Mach 1, it could happen, but I don't think so. I’m surprised Gulfstream didn’t build a Supersonic “business” jet years ago, I know they were working on one, the lead Engineer died in a crash at Sun-N-Fun years ago, I know nothing about the crash though, just that it occurred. On edit, easier to find than I thought. https://www.wtoc.com/story/8160702/fl-plane-crash-kills-gulfstream-employee/

Ideally an engine will run in flight and at run up at the pressure the oil bypass valve is set for. You can’t increase the oil pressure on an engine unless the valve is open, because of course your adjusting it’s closing pressure. With cold oil it’s possible to exceed the bypass set point, and a bypass valve isn’t an on or off switch either, it cracks open at a pressure that’s much lower than it’s fully open pressure, so that’s why you don’t see one set number always. Personally I don’t get upset with high pressure unless it’s in the red, I smile at pressures at the top of the green. ‘Good motors run high pressures, old worn out ones don’t.

I’ve not watched the second one, but as a comment there is astonishingly little “new” aerodynamics at the sub sonic level, there are different ways of looking at the same data of course. ‘For what its worth the concept of washing a wing out so that at a normal cruise speed the wing tip is producing no lift with the idea of reducing induced drag has been done before, however the additional skin drag of the “extra” wing along with the extra structure weight required to support the otherwise useless wing cancels out the reduced induced drag. However this seems to be mainly based on the weight reduction of the elimination of the vertical tail, and there may be something to that. ‘My prediction is that the square cube ratio will “get” them and when scaled up to practical transport category sized aircraft the extra wings weight will cancel out any increase in efficiency. The Gurney flap is the only real “new” aerodynamics I know of, and of course to look at it, it doesn’t look aerodynamic at all.

I ordered them too as they seem to be the cheapest jack pads for sale, what’s with the comment about helicoiling the airplane though, do they come with bolts smaller than what the tubes are tapped for?

I keep wanting to build one, think of a flat shovel or maybe a dustpan, not literally, but the shape, put two wheels toward the handle end and put in it a lazy susan made from a plate with grease under it, roll the nose gear onto the flat shovel and pulling the shovel down levers the nose an inch off of the ground, connecting it to a golf cart or lawnmower keeps it the inch off of the ground, and the grease plate lazy susan means you can turn at a much greater angle than the stock nose gear allows and would keep you from damaging the nose gear. ‘But I no longer have my torch and welder so I don’t know if I ever will. ‘The electrics seem nice, but at $2,000 above my pay grade for a tow bar

Yes but it takes apparently to the first Thurs of every month to take effect, and it’s free. There is an intermediary selection too, but I don’t remember what it was. ‘I believe if you choose that intermediary selection and then pay Flight Aware some money, then you can set up a list of people who are allowed to track you. ‘However if you have a Garmin Inreach or Spot, then if you give them the url, friends can track you too, and of course you can simply turn the Spot or Inreach off.

That’s still the original owner, you’ll find him. ‘FAA is apparently at least 60 days behind updating the database, after I become the registered owner, then I was going to ask you guys how easy or hard it is to find my name, not the LLC that’s the registered owner, but me. The company that is the Agent for the LLC supposedly provides anonymity and the State they are in apparently allows that, or they aren’t telling the truth, who knows?

On another thread we got to talking about privacy and among other things how anyone can see everywhere we fly by using Flight Aware and other agencies. ‘Well another member brought up LADD https://ladd.faa.gov ‘Well it’s free, painless, simply register on the above link and voila after the first Thursday of the month you will no longer be able to be tracked. ‘My tail number is N1141N go ahead and try to track me and see if you can, I’m sort of interested if you can, from my admittedly very limited computer skills, it seems that you can’t. ‘Maybe you guys already knew this, I didn’t to me it was a revelation