Greg Ellis

I liked President George W Bush Please do not start a political debate or this thread will be shut down immediately, I'm sure). But one of my pet peeves of his was his pronunciation of Nuclear. He would pronounce it Nucular. Where in the word NUCLEAR do you see the extra U that would cause one to pronounce it Nucular? Used to bug the crap out of me. Then I found out that particular pronunciation is listed in Merriam Webster as a variation in pronunciation of the word. I still can't stand it. Not sure of they had it in there all the time or added it because the President used it...

Having a wife that has grown up in aviation helped me a lot. However, we had the discussion that sometimes we may not know if we are going until the day before and sometimes we may not know what time we are going until the day of. She understood and realized I would just keep her in the loop of when she needed to be ready to go and it would never be a hurried situation.

Yeah. I recognized it immediately.

I cannot understand how these folks got to 36,000 feet without oxygen. Much like the days of early aviation and the brave and/or crazy mail pilots that flew open cockpit in the winter well in the teens and flight levels without oxygen. I drove up Pike's Peak which tops a little over 14,000 and I had to immediately come back down because I got an incredible headache and just could not handle it. And I was not about to buy one of their cans of Oxygen they sell for an exorbitant amount of money.

I have been flying with https://www.dualeyewear.com/ They give me the bifocal reader on the bottom and they fit well under my headset. I think I may check out some of these others that have been mentioned though just for grins. I have never been too loyal with sunglass companies. Give me something functional that doesn't break the bank.

A few years ago I toured that area (Zion, Bryce, Arches, Canyonlands etc...). It is absolutely phenomenal. I landed in St. George and it was nice driving the southern area of Utah.

Okay, I know...these are old and have been shown more than a million times I am sure and probably on this forum somewhere. But I ran across these and got a pretty good laugh out of them so I thought I would share for those who needed an end of the year laugh. The debates on these videos resemble some of those on various airplane forums around the web. I hope everyone has a Happy New Year.

Just a note on using an older C model as a trainer. Someone on this list can chime in here and it may not be an issue but the older planes did not have co-pilot brakes. My 63 C model does not. So just a thought if you are going to use it to train someone to fly, you may be putting all the braking ability in the hands of the student in the left seat. Some have been retrofitted with co-pilot brakes. I am not sure what year co-pilot brakes became standard. Just a thought.

For those who are unaware, the site to get your performance report from the FAA is https://adsbperformance.faa.gov/PAPRRequest.aspx I did it as soon as my ADS-B was installed to make sure everything was working correctly. I know of a couple of people who had ADS-B installed, was told by their avionics shop that all was well but failed the performance report. The performance report looks something like the one attached. If there is nothing in highlighted in red then everything is okay.PAPR_20190224_A89E24_70570520.pdf

Painting a picture in my mind of the look on the flight instructor who signed this guy off to solo....

Here is a good place to give you an idea of the cost. https://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/165401233/1944-north-american-p-51-mustang https://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/33682355/1945-north-american-p-51-mustang and there are a few more for sale. Or if you want a project and get your foot in the door, there is this... https://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/30238905/1945-north-american-p-51-mustang

There is an article about the Naked Mite in a recent edition of Mapa Log. It was restored and donated to the museum by Boyd Maddox.

Aircraft Spruce has it for $9.85.

I flew it for about 10 minutes. I was heading to Missouri and was in the middle of no-where. It was extremely cold outside and the CHT's were quite low. I chose to continue to my destination because the plane was doing fine and there were no other issues. CO monitor stayed at 0 so there was no CO getting into the cabin. And I was joking about the cost. It was not bad considering they had a new part made.

But...did your wife know she was making something for your mistress?

I had an exhaust riser break in flight which would be much like if this clamp came apart and it was on #4 by coincidence. The only thing that happened was a rhythmic thumping noise that changed with a change in power (the exhaust actually exiting into the engine compartment instead of out the exhaust pipe) and it going almost silent when the power was brought to idle. Also, the EGT's on #4 went cold because most of the exhaust was venting out by the engine and not out the actually pipe where the probe is. But the airplane flew just fine and nothing catastrophic happened other than the bill I got to fix it.

The photo is from a picture he found on Google and not his Mooney

I know how you feel. This was just part of my pile when I re-did my panel. They found wires leading no-where. Some were live. It was just a mess.

I remember as a kid going flying with my Dad in 1980 (I was 11 years old) when he first got his license. The Cherokee's he trained in had no intercom. No headsets. A single microphone and the overhead speaker. Even when he got his multi in a Seminole there were no headsets and no intercom. But back then there was a lot less communication with ATC as I recall. When he bought his first airplane which was a Baron, the pilot and co-pilot had headsets but nothing for the passengers. I remember having to yell quite a bit to be heard. When he moved up to the Cessna 340 there were headsets for every seat.

All of those switches are in the off position. I double checked. It is just a mystery I guess.

That is quite possible since it has been asking me that for days and I kept putting it off. But the options were update now or update later. There was no do not update option. So even though I had the auto updates slider in the off position it still thought by me saying update later that I eventually wanted it to update. That makes sense. Thanks,

Thanks. The slide button to automatic updates is turned off yet it still updated on its own. I have a message on the Apple Forum Community right now but no one has responded. It is really not that big of a deal other than I have an issue with computer devices taking on a sort of AI and doing things when I have clearly stated I do not want them to be done. Apple seems to be the main offender. They feel they know what is right for you and your device and do it without asking. My android phone is now getting to be that way with Google.

Congrats on the posting milestone. I met Anthony at Oshkosh this year. I am a relatively unknown in the world of Mooney. I have owned mine for 12 years and I mainly lurk on these forums gathering as much knowledge as I can from folks a whole lot smarter about Mooneys than myself. This being said, at Oshkosh, Anthony could have chosen any of the many well known Mooney folks to sit with but he sat with me and gave some excellent advice to my nephew who was with me who wants to be a professional pilot. So I would like to say that Anthony is a true class act as has been mentioned and I enjoyed chatting with him at Oshkosh. Here's to another 25K!!!

Thanks for the information. I did not get that message because my I-pad updated before they were done testing so no reason to send me the message. I normally am not concerned because Garmin has never had a problem with any of the I-pad updates but recently Jeppesen's Mobile Flite Deck was not compatible with the previous update.

So, I am calling on any ipad savvy folks. I have an Ipad Pro 10.5 inch wifi + Cellular. I use Garmin Pilot. I usually wait to update to the new ios until ipad pilot news green light program says that everything checks out okay with Garmin Pilot and that it works okay with the new operating system. My I-pad decided to update to 13.1.3 on its own last night in the middle of the night without asking if it was okay. I have automatic updates turned off yet it still went and updated the ios. Garmin has not finished doing their testing so I was going to wait but too late thanks to Apple thinking it knows what is good for me without asking. Anyone have any ideas as to why it would do this? Did I miss a switch or something to turn off? I have read through some forums about this and some say just to put it in airplane mode at night. But if I turn off automatic updates on the ipad in the settings area I really should not have to do this as well. I am just curious if I am missing something. I know it was asking me on a daily basis if I wanted to do the update and I kept saying no so maybe it just got frustrated and took it upon itself to do what it felt was good for me. Thanks for listening and any advice.