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The January Issue of The Mooney Flyer is ready. In this issue: 1. Flying Your Mooney in Winter 2. Why I Sold My Cirrus and Bought an Acclaim 3. And Then There Were None (Pilot Population) 4. Used vs. New Mooneys 5. What If! Single Pilot IFR in Mooneys 6. Whale vs. Trawler Read it at: http://www.TheMooneyFlyer.com

The driving commute to Oakland is 2 1/2 hrs with no traffic. But there is seldom no traffic. I use to commute and the tie-ups were in Tracy and Livermore/ Dublin area. As for airports, O22 is best. In winter, icing levels in the foothills go to ground, so expect that. You really need shelter at O22, mostly due to intense heat in the summer. Phil

Often the switch has slid along the throttle linkage. Set your throttle to your approach setting, then look and see If the switch is engaged. If not, make it so.

Red Box is not about "peak" CHT, or peak EGT for that matter. Red Box is about running your engine for maximum useful life. Most of us were taught, and many POH indicate flying at 50-deg ROP. This maximizes your ICP (Internal Cylinder Pressure), which is BAD for your engine. Keeping CHTs below 380-deg is also an engine longetivity issue. Prolonged operation above 380-deg actuall causes changes, not good, in the metalurgy/strength of your cylinders. At 60% BHP, or lower, you can run your engine at any mixture setting (as long as its running smoothly). Hope this helps a little... even tho my response is late to this thread.

Bob Kromer explained about the 301 in the October 2012 Mooney Flyer, if interested.

On your suggestion... we create a PDF... and then everyone reads it from their browser... how do we force a new tab in that environment. The FLIPbook version does open links in a new tab... go figure

Thanks for the catch... We have revised the article... It is 380F, not 360! I think we had Lycoming O360 on the brain.

Sold the Cirrus after this incident and bought a Mooney!!! Pretty smart guy, huh?

The December Issue of The Mooney Flyer is Ready. Click on http://themooneyflyer.com/ to read it. In this month's issue: Ø More Q&A with the new CEO of Mooney International - Jerry Chen Ø Flying Your Mooneys More Efficiently by Editor Phil Corman Ø Are You Shaking your Tail? If not, READ THIS by Cliff BIggs Ø CFII Geoff Lee muses on Time & GPS… Things you should Know Ø I was Stopped by Customs & Border Protection by Gabriel Silverstein Ø Mooney Nose & Landing Gear Inspection & Repair by LASAR's Mike Riter Ø Another Avoidable Mooney Accident and Analysis by CFI Jim Price Ø Declaring Your Position to ATC Phil & Jiim

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Try to keep your Lycomings below 380f and your TCMs below 400f. Hottest CHTs often occur on departure.

Thanks! Let us know what you think.

Thanks. We're trying!

The July Edition of The Mooney Flyer is now available. In this issue: Magneto Systems & Updates for Mooneys The History of Top Gun Aviation Electrical Issues Why We Fly Mooneys (and not inferior models) The Engine Spoke to Me, But was I Listening Mooney Trip to Santa Barbara Water in the Fuel Tanks An Angel on My Shoulder Just go to www.TheMooneyFlyer.com Let us know what you think... this is a labor of love Phil & Jim

Ha Ha... almost didn't make the editor cut...

The May Issue of THE MOONEY FLYER is here. Click on this link to download: http://themooneyflyer.com/ In this Issue: The small but Excellent Staff at the Mooney Factory ... what they are doing for you Good Mooney Landings by former Mooney Exec and Test Pilot Bob Kromer Fast vs Slow Thinking -- You need both to fly a Mooney Loss of Oil Over Monterey -- First person account by Geoff Lee Tales from the Right Seat -- A Mooney Trip to Paso Robles, CA "Wine Country" and much more

Click on the link to get your copy of The Mooney Flyer April Issue http://themooneyflyer.com/ In this issue: Mooneys & Crosswinds What to do if you are Ramp Checked LASAR Supplying New/Replacement Mooney Parts Flying Mooneys Down Under These Guys Literally Made Aviation History Diverging Needles over the Sierra Nevadas And More Please let us know how we are doing... The online magazine gets better because of your feedback and also the high level of reader submissions.

Will do... Sounds like fun!

The guys in the west are planning to head east until we run out of country. Other groups starting in other places can decide on their own where to go each day. We hope to meet new people each day. We'll post our blog with pics and future destinations as we figure them out so people can join us.

Hey, a bunch of us are planning to "Fly our Mooneys Over America". The plan is simple. A few of us, here in the west, have agreed to connect a some airport on May 4th... someplace like Sedona or Page, for instance. Each afternoon, we will meet and plan our next destination. The only rule is that it is not a long leg, maybe 2 - 21/2 hours or less. We'll post destinations as we know them and encourage other Mooney pilots to join us if our itinerary is near their home drome. Or ground-based folks can encourage us to fly to their home drome. The idea is "informal". After posting this in The Mooney Flyer, we have had Mooniacs from around the country show interest. So how about this? If you want to start a Mooneys Over America from your location, post here. Others may join you. If there is enough interest, we can plan a meet in the middle of the country, or us folks out west might just fly all the way to the east coast. Let us know if you are interested. This type of thing can be fun. We are planning on starting around the 4th of May and running this for 10-12 days.

I found KOAK to be easy to get into and the FBO is extremely GA friendly. They will give you a ride (5 mins) to BART, and then 20 mins later you are downtown SF. Remember KOAK is really 2 airports. One runway for the big iron and 2 to the east are GA.

Sounds like you may be stuck on basic definitions. Not unusual at all. First it helps to have a simple understanding of how the ASI works. It doesn't really measure "speed" the way the speedometer on a car does. What it's really doing is comparing impact (or ram) air pressure coming through the pitot tube with static air pressure coming through the static port. Indicated Airspeed (IAS). Some folks try to make this more complicated than it is. It's simply the speed that is shown on the airspeed indicator. Period. Calibrated Airspeed (CAS). When you are in level flight at cruise airspeed, the pitot tube is aligned directly with the relative wind. But when you are, say, flying level slowly, the pitot tube is pointed up at an angle to the relative wind. It's not getting a direct flow, so the measurement is a bit off. This is what the book calls "position error". Calibrated airspeed is indicated airspeed corrected for that error. As was already mentioned, there's a table in the aircraft manual that shows how to convert from one to another. Older Mooneys do not all have this data as they per-date modern POHs.

The March edition of The Mooney Flyer is available! In this edition are: Insights into Mooney Stall Speeds & Characteristics A Mooney Factory Update Pre-Purchase or Pre-Annual Inspection when buying a Mooney My M20C Flys at 150 knots TAS How I got my Medical Back Out of the Clear Blue Western Skies Tales from the Right Seat to St. George, Utah Aeronautical Decisions You can access this issue in either PDF or Flip Book versions by clicking here at http://TheMooneyFlyer.com

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