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If you are in or near a larger city, there should be a plastics store. They would be worth a run by.

Old school you REALLY wanted to hear As Filed. Otherwise after you got your clearance, you had to figure out where it went on those paper charts. And enroute, you really hated to get an amended clearance, so you had to do that in the air. Yesterday, I filed using the Fore Flight recommended route. I got an email to expect that route. Flight Aware said the same thing. When I called for my clearance, it was totally different. Later I found an email from ForeFlight that my expected routing had been changed, to what I actually got. At least now days they spell every named intersection and give you the ID of any VOR or airport used in your route.

Exactly. Somewhere was a report that the basic idea was developed in the 40s. It also took vision to not look at meeting the ASTM spec, but to get the fuel approved without meeting that standard.

I have been casting lead alloy for many years. I get it from scrap metal dealers. Or friends who get it from various sources and sell it in reasonable portions (they buy by the ton). Or order it from someone like Rotometals. I have a lead casting pot. But I have also used a cast iron pan or pot and normal stove. Just don't EVER use that pan or pot for cooking.

You are melting the lead, not boiling it.

No, but the AF447 showed them in a classic swept wing stall. Nose near the horizon, not accelerating with climb thrust, and massive vertical speed down, with the stick held full aft (and the airplane had reverted to the where the controls directly controlled the surfaces, like in non-FBW aircraft).

It was one of the screws you cannot grip the head with vise grips. Finally got it off with a better screw driver and some Screw Grab.

I just had to ident today.

Let's see, things are well below market prices. Only takes a cash app with no protection for the person who sent the money. Yeap, that would be perfectly legit...... NO WAY, in case you did not recognize my sarcasm.

Both are EXCELLENT for making you a better pilot.

BOTH of them can kill you. The difference is, with a spin you hit the ground with the airplane intact. In a spiral, normally the wings and fuselage part company before you hit the ground.

AGREED. And not stalling them in training leads to not knowing they are stalled in real life, hence AF447

This is a 252. One of the screw heads is stripped, so I can't get it out. And once I get it out, I am not putting it back in. And it is Sunday, so FBO is closed to see if they have one.

As the title, are the hub caps required? And why are they there anyway? It seems like all they do it make it hard to check and air the tires.

Huh. Not only have I stalled jets, I have even intentionally spun one. Now, these were not GA or Aircarrier jets. But if more jet pilots had stalled jets, AF 447 might not have crashed. A stall in swept wing aircraft is a lot different than a straight wing aircraft. There is no stall break. Then nose stays pretty much on the horizon and the wings rock. And you come down VERY quickly

Yes, the right adapter. But if they are the typical smallish home tanks to people can move around easily, you won't get much of a fill

Need to make sure they are the same weight (as in ounces). There is a difference in them from a 252 to an Encore.

I have both a regular iPad and Mini. In my Mooney, the Mini works well, yoke mounted. The bigger one just doesn't fit well. Too big. I do yoke and fly the larger iPad in CAP C-182s I fly. I have considered and may try tomorrow, mounting the bigger iPad on the right side. I have nothing there, so will try a suction cup mount. More for the person in the right sear.

Great, thanks.

But is it not the prime meridian by definition? If not, where is the actual 0 longitude?

It is disappointing that it seems Mooney put this out, without any path to getting the parts in stock.

I have looked through the POH and the only thing it says is that the annunciator will indicate if the voltage is too low or too high. No numbers. So, if you were putting in a monitor for voltage, what would you set the Low and High levels to alarm at? For my case, for a 24 volt system.

Yeah, and there were a few others doing the same thing. Amazing how many geeks there are in the world.

No, the point is, the Prime Meridian is the Prime Meridian. It is a physical point. Yes, GPS works because it is consistent. It will take you back to the exact same point. BUT, if you put in a lat/long it doesn't take you to that point exactly. OTOH, many places were not exactly where we thought they were. Early uses of INS discovered this.

Agree, new to the airplane, don't worry about a few trips ROP. People ran ROP for MANY years. I did the same bring my plane home from TX. I ran ROP, to reduce the new things by at least one factor.