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    Very true. My point was that dive shops are accustomed to selling pure oxygen, not necessarily blended with air or air+helium.
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    Deco tanks are 50/50 or pure oxygen. 100% is also used in diving rebreathers.
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    Vent lever pulled, window open (unless you are in a screaming descent; limitation is 150 mph), roof air scoop open. Frozen water bottles. Not much else you can do..
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    That's all good and fine until your A&P calls you saying that your J-bar has just snapped in half..
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    The only time is does matter is when ATC requests "120 knots or greater"
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    Yeah, same here, although I am paying with a 0.4 gph ff increase for those 2-3 knots. Essentially, a torn boot in an E/F is an equivalent of a permanently not-quite-fully-open, not-quite-ram air, plus the obvious consequences of rubber chunks entering the induction system.
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    No. By design, the boot is downstream of the point where ram air joins filtered air. You could potentially delete ram air functionality by welding shut the ram air door and/or removing the ram air door cable, but the intake boot will still be needed. @cliffy is correct about the rotational movement and vibration of the engine, especially during start and shutdown, being the reason behind the boot design as it is.
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    Do tell, do tell!!
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    I passionately despise "flowing lines" of any kind. Your Exhibit 1 has a lot of potential though. Lose the curls and add a splash of bright color somewhere. Either orange or cold/lemon yellow would look pretty good with those grays.
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    Curious. My celebratory gunfire invariably hits my hangar buddy's Cirrus...
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    https://www.ebay.com/itm/146437361112
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    I am really enjoying GP so far. Love having secondary on-screen engine monitor capability. Hate the tiny (i) button to pull up complete airport info
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    Wowzers!! The only missing redundancy is a backup autopilot!
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    One of the Commissioners requested info on G100UL alternatives. KRHV supervisor did talk about Swift 100R and the VP Racing Fuels developments, but unfortunately omitted that 100R has been in 172R fuel tanks for >8 months now at KSQL.
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    Not difficult to notice that one presenter dropped a lot of names and appealed to his own expertise, and the other showed quite a lot of damaged machinery and actual experimental data.
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    Exactly Holy crap. This fuel has been on sale for half a year in at least two major GA airports and has only seen ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY users??
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    No public discussion after George or Michael's presentations, but they accept questions via email after the meeting. George Braly is there in person (not surprisingly). bnc@cob.sccgov.org
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    Well, George Braly's presentation is queued
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    Brutal!!
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    Not sure this is true. Cooling from say 375F cruise CHT at altitude means equalizing to a potentially sub-freezing ambient temperature and a lot of air moving through the engine. Shutdown takes the engine from a much lower descent/landing CHT to a (generally) much higher ambient temperature, and no oncoming air. I'd say the delta is 350-400F vs. 150-200. Shock cooling is still a myth though
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    Unlikely rodents since there appears to be no poop pellets
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    Perfect for training missions, ain't it??
  25. varlajo
    I know several pilots who add some MMO to their oil for the last flight prior to oil change. I wouldn't dump MMO or any additives into fuel tanks though.
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