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Saw a really nice looking Silver Eagle (turbine P210) at the home FBO yesterday. Apparently the guy comes here regularly so I'll have to ask him about it. Looked very useful, FIKI, spacious, pressurized. Pretty spendy on Controller, though competitive with the options. TY all for the education about turbine maintenance.

Korean food has an upscale component these days, e.g. trendy NY and LA places. Generally good but overly fancy and expensive. LA of course has a large organic Korean community, so lots of regular places, too. Haven't been in a while because, well, California. IMHO the best find is a less-externally-fancy restaurant in a working Korean area. Think strip mall. Old people running it is a good sign. Another tip: Many "Japanese" restaurants, esp. sushi places, are actually run by Koreans. There are little hints in the menu... and often options available.

@EricJ thank you for the detailed observations. That is food for thought. My batteries are only a couple years old and recently tested well. I've been kicking around biting the bullet and getting the approved BatteryMinder connectors and a Minder. As a EE, do you have a sense of how much this helps? (if the plane flies about once every week or two)

+1 for Don's visors. They're significantly larger than factory but still able to be maneuvered into many positions. Price is amazing for the value.

Exactly. Once familiar it is much faster to not just "speed read" but "speed parse" these. Systems that automate a lot of verbiage actually decrease SNR, speed of digestion, and intelligibility (electronic health record auto-templating to fulfill the self-licking ice cream cone of Medicare requirements comes to mind). My sense is that this change comes from: - a desire to fiddle with things and "standardize", like applying SI (metric) measurements to applications that are human-facing and involve no tooling, so don't really yield much. - more so the ability to machine-parse and categorize Last year, when researching planes appropriate to my current route, I was trying to get a sense of ceilings and icing. I pulled a bunch of PIREPs using a database online. Both in the way the DB search was implemented and the raw reports I saw, I noticed that the variations in where exactly the info was, and how it was expressed. And I thought the search implementation was pretty good (a state university somewhere, can't recall exactly which). I suspect the explicit semantic coding will help. Kind of like XML, in some cases.

Worst I've ever got was "get a move on" when I stopped off the active to run a post-landing checklist. Not blocking anyone I knew of. Can't recall the airport. Where I fly now, people are just generally very reasonable. Once while still learning the G1000 I activated the flight director and NAV mode on the ground and also forgot I was departing the opposite runway (you know where this is going). So climbing past the initial altitude I got cleared direct to my first way point. I quickly remembered and then followed the FD. A little while later "Any reason for the long way around?". Pause. "Honestly, it was the autopilot." For a while after that I think they were careful with me on departure. But if they sighed it was after releasing the mic key, so I might just be imagining things. I do see what my instructor told me about, controllers in general do seem to expect more from Mooneys. And cruising in the high teens, getting a lot of fast descents, too. Getting my money out of the speed brakes.

I bet I could add the ring on the Pivot mount in parallel with the Pivot clip. Food for thought. Does it cause more magnetic havoc than a vacuum cleaner? In some seriousness I do wonder about such strong magnets around credit cards, non-RF gate and fuel cards, etc, not to mention the mag compass.

FWIW 670105 is definitely riveted and has a "two-torque limit" per Mooney. Local IA told me it was actually more torques in other applications, which I found interesting.

Hi, When researching this, someone on the forum pointed out a tool on the Continental site that lists part # supercession. See attached for 653337 and 670105. I am not sure if this precludes use of the older parts (should you find "new old" stock) and also not sure what is airplane-specific. However, this was relevant to my search w.r.t. the Acclaim. One of the Mooney A&Ps might chime in, too. HTH D Continental Part or Engine Specification Supersedure V-band clamp Acclaim 653337 670105.pdf

Or find a local camera shop, most good shops should carry Manfrotto stuff (very high quality and useful). Eg. Glazer's in Seattle has anything imaginable, and even rents gear if you really wanted to trial a bunch of different solutions. We got all sorts of pieces-parts for a few industrial machine vision proofs-of-concept a few years ago there. @LANCECASPER does the Steelie hold the iPad securely? I'm going to switch my setup around a bit and try a quick-detach for the iPad on the pilot's yoke where my Aera 760 sits now (using the RAM solution Don described a while back). I was planning to put a Pivot mount (since I have a Pivot case already). The Pivot knee strap on the off leg works ok, but is just a smidge too crowded even with the mini. D

Went through a similar search earlier this year. I will probably come up with a more "definitive" solution with a mounted TSO'ed unit at some point (or at least something from the Dr. Know RF Encyclopedia), but I've used this one to good effect in the meantime: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09G6D11PX/ Lots of plugs at various amperages and a voltage display. I put in the left-hand passenger adapter plug so it's out of the way, and route cables ad-hoc along my left side. I would eventually like to decrease cable clutter. One thing that may be helpful for load concerns: I looked at the schematic for the breaker/fuse rating and then replaced the standard "blade" fuse in the adapter with a smaller matching rating (most of these come standard with a bigger fuse than you want). Not very expensive and available at any auto parts store. HTH D

That is kind of cool, not to be morbid. As for the visual: I made a joke while acquiring the plane about a radar pod on the tail. Might not be high enough still but an interesting question. Apparently some older Mooneys has a small radar in the leading edge of the wing.

@Ed de C., From the Acclaim (M20TN) service manual MAN180 (which might parallel the Ovation's?) I found: 24-00-00 - GENERAL Main Alternator System A 28 volt, 100 AMP alternator (90 amps max. output) utilizing a transistorized voltage regulator/over voltage control supplies electrical power for the main alternator source. Two 24 volt, 10 AMP HR storage batteries are installed in the tailcone. The alternator, during normal operation, supplies power in conjunction with the se- lected battery when the Master Switch and Alternator Field Switch is - ON. The circuit breaker panel is on the right subpanel. The electrical system is capable of sup- plying current for simultaneous operation of multiple ra- dios, anti-collision lights and navigation lights. Standby Alternator System An optional standby system provides 30 volts, with 20 amps of power to support continued flight in the event of primary alternator failure. The Standby alternator is installed on the accessory pad location. Panel mounted equipment includes a STBY ALT ON annunciator and two standard pull type circuit breakers (1 amp and 5 amp) and a STBY ALT master switch. Appropriate plac- ards are provided for each panel mounted device. The regulator is mounted in the RH nosegear wheelhouse area on the M20TN Aircraft. If the primary alternator fails in flight, the pilot activates the standby alternator. If the current requirement is over 26.5 volts when the standby alternator is activated, the annunciator will flash. The pilot is advised to choose which equipment he needs for the given flight conditions by simply keep- ing the total load below the flashing point of the annun- ciator. This will reserve battery energy for transient loads during approach (refer to the M20TN POH/AFM for specific equipment limitations). Loads may be beyond the flashing point of the annunciator for up to 5 minutes without damaging the standby alternator. This fits with @EricJ's description of the preferential-loading behavior (with differentially-set voltages on two different regulators). I would *guess* that given the commonalty of the Acclaim/Ovation designs, this might be similar to your plane. Might be worth a quick PDF search of your Maintenance Manual. HTH D

Dan, Thanks, that is kind of what I would have guessed re: G1000 but I sometimes learn about capabilities "around the edges". Isn't your plane FIKI? Heated would be a nice backup to pitot and stall vane... David

Usually they are separating us. Now you are separating them.

It does sound potentially like a parody. The end is funny, too, with the change in tone and "thank you." Maybe they're taking advantage of my east coast stereotypes

I had been wondering about this. One could imagine using it in several situations (maneuvering to the right or left in pattern, circling approach, turn in a canyon, etc)... center would be more common though for landing and would split the difference between R and L. Your experience that it doesn't impede vision is helpful, as that is what one would want in a HUD. I also didn't realize you could just flip it down, makes perfect sense. Paul, do you know if the data can be "understood" and displayed by the G1000 also? That's really a secondary consideration but might be good SA if you are staring at path indicators on an ILS. D

This conversation made me recall the following snippet I saw a month or so ago. Controllers are human, too :

Is that a super hard core ADF installation?

The incident with the TV video could obviously have been handled better. What a fine man and son. Complexity is the whole point of this kind of operation. Sheesh. Use some discretion, Mr. Incident Commander. Sad that this is being politicized by the admin. but there is a way to work with people. Super cool to see so many Mooney pilots involved. I made a comment to my wife that Barry Seal would go...

@N201MKTurbo Thanks, Rich, that is super-helpful. Where did you find it? Just tested it (needed a car battery to keep up the current through the load). Peace of mind...

Hi again @LANCECASPER, great minds think alike. I did some calling and searching and concluding that breaker off the M20J should work fine (same guts and rating). Different part #s but I think there was supercession and also functional commonality across many of these. Does anyone here know the proper way to test one of these? I just received it today and have continuity. I do have a controllable current supply from my recent battery testing and an electronic load. An older thread mentions checking against current/time curves (presumably from the manufacturer), but I haven't found any: Also was not able to find it in the MAN180 (service manual) though that might be my lack of search-fu. Naively I would just slowly turn up the current supply (DC) until it pops, or I hit something reasonable like 20% over (12A), but the last thing I want to do is fry the new part with blunt methods. thx David

I was recommended Aquapel for glass windshields years ago. It works well on cars. Something pretty strong chemically I think, as you can hear a glass ampule crack as you activate the applicator, kind of like smelling salts, and visible fumes are emitted while you have a minute or two to apply it. It's kind of like a super Rain-X/hydrophobic coating in effect, though seems to last longer. I looked around, and it sounds like it is *NOT* for Plexiglass (polycarbonate) though, or any plastic. Too bad. Had the detailer at the FBO go over the plane and she used Plane Perfect "1", which looks to be a silane. Seems to be working well. It's supposed to be a one-stop product, clean or protect, so I might get a jug and keep using it. Any PIREPs appreciated on this product.

I'm sure it's legit. Further down in the ad it probably says only one owner, flown by a Nigerian prince.

And I was complaining about my broken boost pump switch and bumping my head. That is pretty cool, though. Great hangar accessory. We have some Western Rattlesnakes out here, and they are pretty much not wanting to mix it up so I usually leave them alone. No sightings at the airport (yet). Glad all are well.