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https://themooneyflyer.com/cfi.html I used Matt Wetzel for mine. My plane was at T41 for the pre-buy, so he flew there to do it. He has an Ovation Two evenings ground and we did 5.5 hours flying in one day. He also signed it off as a Flight Review.

Actually, I agree with that. As something to do, when you don't need the income, it would great. If it was local, I might even consider it. But to have to have another place to live and such, not such a good deal. But that is because I (and you probably when retire) have enough income, you could do the job for no pay at all and still live OK

Realize that GAMI has instrumented engines to a much higher level than we have. Including real time combustion chamber pressure measurements. But in the test chamber and in the air. Their operating advice comes from that information, but translated so that we can use it with the instrumentation we have in our aircraft. And the basis for what they teach comes from the airlines and the military when they ran piston engines.

Like Sabena - SN Brussels - Brussels Airline

Nope, most was work travel. Maybe 5 for non-business

As I pointed out, not everywhere. Locally, I could get off road diesel fuel for less than Jet A at the local airport. YMMV

Buy once, cry once. Teh 650 gives a LOT of capability. And can be the basis for a major panel redo if you hit the lottery.

Nope, will need a couple of rolls of duct tape to fix that.

Got to love FAA/GOV accounting. They include ALL known costs. Hmm, they give the cost to remove and inspect one cylinder, except these are 6 cylinder engines. Hmm, they give the cost to remove the cylinder, remove the valve, and replace the valve. But not the cost to reinstall the cylinder. Hmm, whose shop rate is $85? Mine is over $100

Because you are changing out a design that has had at least two failures for one that doesn't seem to have any documented failures. Yes, a new design that did not have a single point failure would be even better

However the engine burns fuel by the pound, not by the gallon. So you will have a slight range increase. Or just don't fill it to the top for the same range.

Never thought of it that way. But it is a lot of miles. Have only visited 151 countries. So far.

Thanks. As an over 3 million mile flyer, I am glad that are people that enjoy flying for the airlines. Just not for me.

The regulator is required if you have a factory O2 system also. They sell a package with the O2D2 and the regulator. It goes in the tube feeding the O2D2.

People are different. What is a great job to you is not a great job to me and vice versa. My personality is not suited to an airline job for a number of reasons. I have a number of friends who are or wear airline pilots. And they loved their job. I have a few that are airline pilots and HATE it. Does it pay well? Yes. And that is nice. But still not for me.

More likely this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mineta Former Mayor of San Jose and Secretary of Transportation

Wasn't there someone here on MS that was going to make NBS under their PMA? I seem to recall they were looking for a new one to measure and a broken one to do materials analysis to figure out the proper alloy.

If you are not talking to ATC, they will not notice you are gone. I agree that ELT and PLB are complementary. The ELT is required, and the PLBs are not that expensive. Also, if you go down in water, the ELT will be under water, while you could be floating with the PLB. If the search and rescue people get there soon enough, triangulating the cell phone signal is what they use if the ELT is not transmitting the GPS location. CAP still has the capability to DF the 121.5 signal from the air or on the ground. But they have been discussing no long equipping new aircraft with VHF DF capability.

My 71 Fiat 850 Spider had a centrifugal oil filter. The crank pulley had a cover and the oil flowed through it. You had to pop off the cover and dig out the gunk every so often. It was mainly grey colored, probably lead from the leaded gas we ran back then.

That is not why I did not want to fly airliners. Until this past summer, I had less than 15 minutes flying on autopilot. I wanted to FLY the airplanes, not manage systems.

Mine has a strip of velcro on the front of the housing. I think it was for some sort of deflector I have not noticed mine getting that hot.

Agreed, I looked at the airlines and decided it was not for me. Threads like this, like an in person conversation, occasionally goes in odd directions.

It is up to your doctor. Mine redid the basic things before signing mine. And I had a complete workup a couple of months before.

My problem is, it is aimed straight back between the seats. So my feet and lower legs get chilly.

I did my Private ASES in Maine. A C-172 on floats. It was great fun. My first flight was ACTUAL glassy water. My checkride was with "Maine's only lady bush pilot." The oram was over coffee at her kitchen table and after the flight, it was a piece of home made apple pie and another coffee while she typed out my temp certificate. She flew a Maule on floats and seems won the short takeoff contest at the annual float plane fly in locally. The Beaver is tempting, but in memory of that check ride, I may have to go here - https://www.flyfloatplanes.com/ AMEL will HAVE to be the Grumman Goose in Alaska. Although, there is a Beech 18 on floats.......