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  1. Pinecone
    However those Fortune 500 CEOs have golden parachutes and stock options. Their salary is NOT what they make.
  2. Pinecone
    I recently considered the OPP path. I need two adjustable links for the pedals to the master cylinders. It is a rod end bearing ($35 retail), a clevis ($19 retail) and two pieces of steel tubing, about 3 inches total. Three welds and some paint. Mooney charged over $600 to manufacture (LASAR had one for under $300). I have a TIG welder and know how to use it. I could have fabricated two for around $100 in materials. HIGHLY agree that if Mooney does not have parts available at reasonable prices, people will OPP, or PMA holders will move in.
  3. Pinecone
    From what I see, this is the issue. If they had paid to get the drawing made, then each supplied the drawing, and the fabricator realized they were the same and did a CNC file to make them, that is OPP. But it was stated that the drawing was sent to the owner with the part. That is not the owner supplying the specs. Sorry people, but laws and regulations ARE semantics. And how you read laws and regulations is very specific.
  4. Pinecone
    Always seem to be a bunch for sale on Controller and Trade-a-Plane. Another option is to contact Jimmy Garrison at GMax. He normally has a few
  5. Pinecone
    But G1000 is a different system than the standard K setup
  6. Pinecone
    Yes, this is why checking the emergency gear is down and latched is at least twice in the checklists before take off.
  7. Pinecone
    Powerball is $526 million today.... One would not be enough. But ..... First a T-34A with IO-550. Fun to fly, very active type club with fly in activities. Can do airshows as a Warbird. Second an Aerostar. Love how they look, love how the fly. Third a CAP-10C. Mainly to offer aerobatic/upset training. Maybe a Phenom 300E (or PC-24) single pilot jet for longer trips.
  8. Pinecone
    You can say that about people in general.
  9. Pinecone
    Yes. And you can even use it in your car.
  10. Pinecone
    I would LOVE to have an Aerostar. Operating costs are just a bit out of my budget. But if I win the lottery, I WILL have one.
  11. Pinecone
    Simple chemistry. Natural gas is mainly methane. That is CH4. Fully combusted makes 1 molecule CO2 and 2 molecule of H2O. Propane is C3H8. Make 3x CO2 and 4x H20 Isooctane is C8H18. Makes 8x CO2 and 9x H20. The ratio of hydrogen to carbon goes down with more complex hydrocarbons, so more CO2 versus H20. BUT, realize the number one green house gas is actually water vapor.
  12. Pinecone
    Or gasoline. Leaded of course.
  13. Pinecone
    Watch out, I may take you up on that. At this time, I can't fly there, until Canada recognizes Basic Med. I have flown most of the Cessna singles, will work on the remainder.
  14. Pinecone
    AWESOME. Even if you end up not getting a Mooney, please stay active here. You brighten up the place. I need to upgrade my Private ASES to Commercial. There is a 185 on floats at a school not far away that is on my short list. But there is also I school in FL that does the rating in Maules on floats. Hmmm. I have flown a C-180 on wheels, but never a 185. Also need to get some time in C-20x aircraft.
  15. Pinecone
    In stress the mind does strange things. In building fires, people go past exits to where the came into the area. If the controller said Rwy 16, the pilot could become focused on 16 and not considered that 34 was a shorter vector.
  16. Pinecone
    There are oil eating bacteria. Of course, you have to be careful that you do not let them get into oil you don't want eaten. And nothing stopping anaerobic (no O2 required) bacteria to eat oil. Yeah, I remember driving up to LA and ALL the oil wells pumping away.
  17. Pinecone
    I think it turns out that is was a misconception. Same incandescent lamp for both. But LED does require specific to 14/28V.
  18. Pinecone
    Or maybe just install rub blocks. If they were titanium, there would be not much weight and great showers of sparks to go with the touchdown. Like you see when F1 cars bottom out.f
  19. Pinecone
    Hmm, I was last in SD in about 2010. GF walked the beach and ended up with some on her feet.
  20. Pinecone
    Yeap, same in the San Diego area beaches. I grew up there in the late 50s/early 60s and had the same issue.
  21. Pinecone
    Republic Jet just raised their prices. I was supposed to go there last Sat to have lunch with a friend and visit one or both of the nearby aviation museums. When I planned the trip, they were well under $7 per gallon.
  22. Pinecone
    Right after the Exxon Valdez incident, the news folks were sticking microphones in front of anyone. One of the wildlife biologists responding said, on live TV, that it wasn't that big a deal, that they had one almost as bad the next bay over a few years before, and you couldn't even tell. Never saw him in TV again.
  23. Pinecone
    Another option http://www.4pawsaviation.com/products/oxygen-hoods.php I am pretty sure none of the dogs I have owned would tolerate either of these.
  24. Pinecone
    Where is this cheap fuel? A place to eat there? An MS fuel and lunch meet?
  25. Pinecone
    People seem to forget, oil is biodegradable. Back in the 70s, there was a paper in Scientific American that proposed that oil is being produced all the time. The organic materials are carried into the earth and that they get trapped and are converted to oil And yes, major clean out to remove lead before other products can be carried. And the materials used to flush and clean are contaminated also and has to be disposed of as lead containing.
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