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I don’t “do” ice, and fortunately in my Civilian flying I’ve only encountered it a couple of times and then not severe. I’ve taken off in shirt sleeve Wx and seen light icing in clouds at altitude. But I too turn on pitot heat prior to getting into clouds. Had an ice detector on the AH-64, but it wasn’t always perfect, we noticed ice build up on the windshield first. Many aircraft have two different types ice systems, engines are usually anti-ice, that is they prevent ice formation and should be on prior to an icing encounter, wings, blades etc are often de-ice, that is they shed ice after it’s formed. In my opinion Pitot is an anti-ice system, best turned on prior to encountering ice

I too am older, Retired but not wealthy, Hangar is 3,000 sq ft and the Mooney shares it with a 46 C-140 and a 1923 Model-T and a couple other vehicles. Everyone when able needs a tailwheel, and something that can be spun, a Pitts would be fun, but I’m retired, and not wealthy

It wouldn’t be one, but several. A Pilates Porter because I miss Bush type of ops, or maybe a Helio Stallion. A PC12 for traveling because as attractive as a jet maybe there are so many places you can’t go, but I’ve seen PC-12’s in amazingly short grass strips for such a big airplane. If Uber rich for a Jet I’d want something Intercontinental, because I’m rich and can. And of course a helicopter as I have 4,000 hours helicopter time and miss one, so maybe a Hughes 500, an F model I think. I wouldn’t want a 195, if I wanted an aircraft like that I’d want it’s big brother, a 196. Parts for the shaky Jake are getting hard to find, the P&W however are getting more new parts made under PMA every year. There are only a very few, but your rich you can pay I go to breakfast with some classic aircraft every Sunday, one old Stinson Reliant, but at times parking it is challenging. Eddy, the Stinson doesn’t fit in regular GA parking very well. 196’s aren’t real common, here is one at my home airfield fly-in

Steel or wood hangar? Every one in my neighborhood, about 90 is concrete block, with a shingle roof. The house and hangar match in construction style. My house is Insulated Concrete Forms and the hangar concrete block, I would have liked the hangar to be ICF as then it would be easy to heat and cool, keep it say 80 in Summer and 65 in Winter. ICF is about 20% more than block, but the R value of block is 1.x and ICF is at least R22. The one piece hydraulic swing up door is best for many reasons, but I think is most expensive too. Mine are fold up doors.

The whole airplane parachute thing is honestly about 100 years old, it was done successfully back then, but for whatever reason you decide to believe just wasn’t ever done again to my knowledge until the Ultralight era if you will in the 70’s. To me it’s interesting that to this day that a parachute is still a Cirrus only thing. They aren’t all that difficult to include in a design

Look it up, charcoal puts out about twice as much CO2 as gas and I’m sure much more CO https://ideas.ted.com/environmental-impact-of-charcoal-barbecue/ Read this, this quote is from that article, but charcoal is orders of magnitude worse than Propane or Natural gas for many reasons To put that into perspective, if each of the 38.85 million owners of charcoal grills in the US decided to fire up their barbecue for just one hour on the Fourth of July, they would collectively release more than 427 million pounds of carbon dioxide into the air on that day alone. That’s equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions from 42,211 gasoline-powered cars. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory estimates that gas grills emit about half as much carbon dioxide per hour as charcoal grills. Thinking of switching to electric? Unless it’s being powered by a renewable energy source like wind or solar, electric grills actually have a worse overall footprint than gas because electricity often comes from coal.

The vast majority of electricity isn’t renewable and likely won’t be, unless we become much more efficient, which there is very little pressure for that. The places banning hydrocarbon and forcing the shift to electric are already way behind in generation, California imports more electricity than any other State, but refuses to generate their own, because you know it’s bad for the environment, but I guess it’s OK to import it from another State’s coal burning plant? They have banned fossil fuel vehicles in 12 years? They are going to have to double their electric supply at least to do that, how are they going to do that? They are already 30% in the hole and getting deeper. If you really want to reduce pollution from cooking, you ban charcoal grills. As that’s a smoldering fire it’s much more polluting than Propane or natural gas, plus most just let the charcoal burn out, continuing to pollute hours after your done cooking. Or have they banned them too? As far as studies, you get what you pay for. Heard the other day that most couples prefer a vacation when they get married over a diamond ring. Who commissioned the study? Sandals retreats, what did you expect the finding to be? Bottom line though when you don’t have nearly enough of a resource to get by, like water for instance, only a fool does things to increase the use of the resource that your already short of. California is way short of electricity now, banning natural gas and gasoline lawnmowers etc to say nothing of banning fossil fueled cars is planning to fail. It’s exactly like your income is less than your expenditures, so you get another credit card.

It was where I lived too, the local dirt race track was sprayed every week I believe, trucks with tanks and a pipe with spray nozzles were used. I don’t think paving roads with asphalt is too much different, they spray some kind of black tar like substance down then put the asphalt on it. Asphalt is pretty much oil / petroleum and rock? So we are still doing it? On edit, Way I see it is a very large part of the problem is just since my birth in 1958, there are now more than twice as many people in the US, so doing things now is simply way more volume than used to be, so the solution to pollution is dilution breaks down.

Oil was used forever, usually of course waste oil, but what type of oil is important. I believe one of the Superfund sites became one because transformer oil from old transformers was spread on the road to control dust and it’s full of Dioxins? https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/road-contamination-prompts-evacuation-of-town Friend who used to fly Airshow Aerobatics said they used it for smoke oil because they could get if for free, and that wasn’t that long ago really. ‘But that oil that was spread on your property is very likely showing up in the ground water. ‘Where I’m from in Georgia a Pecan farmer spread tons of chicken waste on his pecan groves for fertilizer, it was natural organic etc right? Well a whole bunch of his neighbors wells are now poisoned from excess Nitrates, and aren’t usable for potable water anymore, and they have no access to other water. https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/water/wells/waterquality/nitrate.html He’s not very popular I don’t believe.

Natural gas destroys ozone? I believe it burns far cleaner than oil or coal, what hydrocarbon source is cleaner? I think it funny when I hear about gas stoves being banned, what are they going to replace them with? Electric? Where are they going to get that? Burn oil or coal? California imports 30% of their electricity now, so I guess they will just import more, because what they get from Solar, wind etc is a pittance, 3% Methinks maybe some are playing with the numbers because I see numbers much higher than 3% elsewhere “ Imports help fill the gap when that renewables capacity isn't available. For instance, at 4:50 p.m. on Nov. 29, just 3 percent of California Independent System Operator load was being served by renewables, and about 70 percent by natural gas and imports” https://www.newsdata.com/california_energy_markets/bottom_lines/californias-reliance-on-energy-imports-set-to-grow-sharply-in-the-future/article_911638cc-5484-11ec-a11f-7fad1f92b1ee.html

If you look at the WWII major Naval battlegrounds, many being in Pacific Atoll’s with coral reefs etc. where all kinds of chemicals and bunker oil was released, If the environment was destroyed it didn’t take long at all to recover. There are of course many chemicals that pretty much don’t decay, but it appears petroleum isn’t one of those. Ref oil being created continuously, certainly it is, just the rate of accumulation is miniscule compared to the rate of consumption. I started out my working life as an oil field welder in 1980, back then a couple of exploratory wells had been drilled and natural gas extracted, but the problem was that at those temperatures at that depth natural gas couldn’t exist, thd temps would break it down. As far as I know that was never explained, one theory was that the gas was being created by whatever mechanism creates natural gas. Back then there was so much natural gas that is was simply burned off to get rid of it, I don’t know but suspect there may be enough of it to where if it was all used it could reduce the demand for oil somewhat. Natural gas electric generating plants are about as efficient as fossil fuel power generation gets and I believe is about as clean as it gets.

It will help, but only for awhile, if you don’t fix what caused the rings to gum up the first time, they will gum up again. I don’t mean to speak for others, but Clarence seems to be telling you to fix the problem, not the symptom.

Solar will be important, but you can’t get there with Solar alone, the simple reason is the sun doesn’t always shine, so you will need either incredibly huge batteries of some kind to carry you through the times when it doesn’t or some other storage medium, EV’s is one possibility I think we will first have to get a lot more efficient, which isn’t hard but will mean no more McMansions and SUV’s, and I think Nuclear is at this time the only viable option. We lived on a sailboat for three years, All our power came from Solar, the alternator when we motored or a little Honda generator. We got by fine, but had the most efficient refrigeration possible all LED lighting, cooked with Propane and had no HVAC when at anchor. Four 250W Solar panels could run our refrigeration and not much else, to make water took a little Honda generator, forget Airconditioning with Solar. I used to watch the “tiny house” shows, they would always put up one or two panels and say this will provide all our electricity. BS, not even close. Just to run a toaster takes 1500W, in a perfect world that’s 6 250W panels, but in the real world your lucky to get 1/2 of the panels rated capacity for four hours a day, so that’s 12 house size panels to run the toaster, now let’s talk about the stove, oven, clothes drier, water heater etc. to say nothing about Air Conditioning or heating. Rounding up each house will use about 1,000 KWH a month, it’s actually closer to 900, but I like simple numbers. To produce on average 1,000 KWH per month it will take 40 5’X3’ Solar panels, which is more than the average roof can hold, and that’s not taking into account most roofs aren’t angled correctly or have shading issues etc, nor is it taking into account charging an electric vehicle. If your going to charge an electric SUV or PU truck and do any significant driving, then your going to need probably more than 80 Solar panels. So what do these panels cost? When I was doing the boat thing if you shopped around and found a screaming deal, I bought left over panels from a big installer and paid $1 a watt. So forget the EV, each panel costs $300 x 40, that’s $12,000 to provide one house with power and doesn’t include any labor or materials, inverter or anything else to install. I think doubling the 12K to 24K isn’t unrealistic if you just want to call someone and do no work yourself. So without any Government subsidies for $24,000 you should be able to supply your own power, that’s of course without any form of storage to get you through cloudy rainy days and nights. My utility rates that’s $140 a month of electricity, without subsidies, I just can’t make the numbers work

Was it on here or somewhere else? I seem to remember a story of someone whose aircraft required 100LL had to have some kind of work done where the fuel was outlawed. He wanted to bring in a few 5 gl cans of fuel but wasn’t allowed to so he took off short of fuel and didn’t make it? I don’t know the validity of the story, but it sounds plausible Plenty of possible unintended consequences, I doubt the intent was to kill pilots. But what do people do now in California where 100LL is banned if they have an engine that requires it? I have heard but do not know that in places it’s banned

Some places certainly, California and some others will jump on it like a cat on a mouse, some others will not. In short the States that have banned gasoline Auto’s will most likely ban 100LL, many other States won’t. IF the Fed’s don’t get involved, I think they will, great photo op for the masses. I hope however they won’t, one things for certain they won’t subsidize it like EV’s and Solar panels though. However if enough States jump on it, the reduced sales volume will first push up the price of 100LL and eventually kill it

IF that were true, then the only auto oil sold would be that cheap re-refined stuff etc. There would be no premium oil sales. Yet I think Premium oil sales are a large portion of oil sold. I think many buy “premium” parts and products, for instance go buy brake pads for your car, there are usually three levels of pads, even NAPA and others have different levels of oil filters, the NAPA gold made by Purolator is an excellent filter for example, clearly better than their lower grade. Personally I use K&N oil filters and now Rotella 5W-40 synthetic, I now use Diesel oil as the newer gas formulations have removed some of the anti wear packages as they are detrimental to pollution controls, but the older Diesel formulations still have it, but the newest Diesel oil has gone the way gas oil did, because Diesels now have pollution control devices. It cost me more money to change my own oil than it does to go to a quickie oil change place, but your right average car person had essentially zero knowledge and only shops price, but doesn’t do their own work. But I think pilots are different, many seem to be motor heads, many have mechanical and high performance vehicle backgrounds, or maybe not, but I think enough do that if something superior comes along that costs more but makes their engines last longer, or burn cleaner etc even if it costs more they will go for it.

You really see it when you pull a prop, because the prop oil flow is a dead end and it accumulates there, but doesn’t cause harm, but the area is full of what looks like grey grease. I cycle the prop three times on each run up hoping to slow down the accumulation, but it likely doesn’t do anything much. Carbon however is abrasive, there have been discussions forever on what size particle is destructive, though a large reason OCI is 25 hours without a filter is carbon, filter takes it to 50. Lead particles are apparently too small to be trapped in a filter or the crank wouldn’t be full of it. But unless Lycoming has doubled the calendar life of the oil 100 hour OCI won’t have any effect on very many at all, maybe flight schools? With a real Synthetic oil and a good enough filtration system OCI could be exceedingly long, possibly only changed when analysis indicated it. But I wouldn’t expect it, like a modern electronic fuel injection, certainly possible, but don’t hold your breath. We will see if there are any unintended consequences of the new fuel, because without flying a couple of fleets that burn it and doing so for an extended time, you really don’t know for certain. I say a couple because you need some in cold Wx and some in hot and humid etc. I’m skeptical, it’s my nature, 100LL has issues and short comings, but they are known. I hope the new fuel becomes available soon, before 100 LL is banned and then over time there will be experience with it accumulated. Crazy comparison at first glance, but I see it like the Government meddling with electric cars, they shouldn’t, if an EV is a superior technology people will buy them without government intervention. If a new fuel is a superior technology, then people will buy it, if it reduces maintenance, keeps plugs and oil cleaner, fewer combustion chamber deposits etc. , pretty quickly engine overhaulers and mechanics etc will get behind it and recommend it and the demand for 100LL will shrink and FBO’s will no longer keep it because the demand isn’t there, like 87 Octane fuel, it went away from lack of demand and the desire not to have to supply two kinds of fuel. If the new stuff is superior, 100LL will join 87 Octane, without a mandate

It’s coming if it’s noticed. Just like 100LL being banned will happen if it’s gets attention. There is a growing movement to tax the wealthy, and most see us owners of 50 yr old tiny airplanes as Wealthy. Ocala instituted a $15 landing fee, so us locals no longer go there to eat lunch. Their intent was to keep the rif raft out so the Bizjets won’t be hindered Institute a fee for ATC services, and people will stop calling them. We will see how droves of aircraft wandering around not talking to ATC enhances safety. Both the majority of the FAA and all airlines see us as parasites, FAA tolerates us only because we help increase their number, but most of their Administration don’t like us, they keep talking about the aging aircraft problem.

Again people will argue, but to me the full blown AD search is one of the longest and most arduous process in an Annual for me, but then I guess I’m a Luddite. Computer types probably enjoy it. In theory any component on the aircraft could have an AD, a circuit breaker for example, how do you know one wasn’t changed and that one has an AD? So you check every CB? I don’t believe it’s realistic to catch every single possible AD, a prop governor overhauled by x company could have an AD, but only if done from this dare to that date, but if overhauled by y company it’s fine, it goes on and on. Many times you don’t have paperwork saying who overhauled the prop governor. Where I’m going with this is as an IA I have to research in theory every single component on that airplane since it’s birth for AD’s. I say in theory because I don’t think 100% is realistic, prop governor for example, you can’t verify if it wasn’t overhauled by the company that has an AD against them, so do you require it’s replacement? Some would say yes. But if I did the Annual last year, then I only have to concern myself with the last year, so it should be much less expensive to stick with one IA, because every time you change they have to check everything since the aircraft’s birth date. The AD thing grows arms and legs, that’s why the software was easier for a Luddite like me.

We staged out of Kapsovar Hungary until they could clear an area of mines in Bosnia for us to fly out of, we were the first aviation unit into Bosnia late Dec of 95 I guess it was? I’ve done a left lateral hover beside of an AN-2 in flight, for such a big ole airplane they can fly remarkably slow, but I bet they burn fuel like it was free too. It was cold so I think that helped. Makes me wonder where they got fuel for those things in the former Soviet territories? Heaviest thing I’ve ever flown on ailerons was a B-25, I had to put one hand under the yoke to push up and the other pulling down. At first I was afraid something was wrong, surely applying that much force was going to break something?

I used to use Tdata, work paid for it, I need to find a software solution so if anyone knows of a good one for just a couple uses per year, I’m all ears. Most of course seem to be for those with shops that will do many different aircraft in one year, where I only need a few a year https://tdata.com/product/iapproach-basic/

Cirrus enjoys a sort of cult status, similar to what Tesla used to. So I’m thinking Cirrus will sell a bunch of them to wealthy individuals who want to move up to a jet from their SR-22 and can afford to do so, plus between the auto land thing and the parachute they sell to a market that’s apparently more concerned with safety issues, every crash they can say if they had a parachute they would be home watching TV, and a whole lot of people buy into that. Between the auto land thing and the parachute it’s not hard to convince people that it’s the safest aircraft you could buy. However it seems that many people that can afford a jet often face issues with insurance etc to fly one, operating costs are so high that I think paying a pilot is just not much money in the scheme of things so I wonder how many Honda jets are owner flown, bigger than Honda and I think it’s gets real rare.

Assuming your up North I agree. Down in Fl it may be the opposite as Fl sees a large increase in population in Winter. Normally I believe in spring people just feel better, I know I do and I’m way more likely to buy when I’m in a good mood and Wx is comfortable etc. Plus you just want to go fly in nice warm weather, if it’s cold, overcast and drizzling not so much. I have seen in several pubs that Winter is a good time to buy as people aren’t using the airplane but are still paying hangar rent and insurance etc. The converse is of course it’s not a good time to sell. I think I’d pull the ads maybe and wait a couple of months and relist when the days are longer and weather is nicer.

Say I’m the buyer, First the aircraft never left your possession, surely a seller doesn’t let someone fly off with their airplane? But secondly if the inspector messed something up, your beef is with them, not me, unless I was the inspector. I don’t think you could hold me liable for the actions of an FAA licensed mechanic, unless of course I’m the mechanic? I’ve never actually given someone a deposit when I’ve bought anything, it’s always been in Escrow, with some kind of provisions that I can’t honestly quote, but if memory serves it would be exceedingly difficult to lose your deposit, basically you would have to sign a purchase agreement, then try to back out is the only realistic way I believe. But the seller doesn’t get the money and me have to fight them to get it back, ever. Do people actually write large checks and give to the prospective seller? But yes, both parties carry some risk, if nothing else the seller has pulled the airplane off the market for some time interval, he could lose a sale that way.

It doesn’t I misread it it says inside of the gear door. “It comes down the inside of the left main gear door, and runs onto the floor.” Unless I’m mistaken the pictures were posted by someone else who did have a leaking caliper, apparently the OP posted a pic too. I’ve just not had a caliper leak anywhere but the caliper and usually like you say from the bleeder nipple. But even though I misread leg when it was door, I’m not sure a leaking caliper would leak on the gear door. But as it’s leaking really bad it ought not be hard to find the leak