Hank

I used to give rides on Airport Day with several 172z and a Cherokee 180. I'd pull back to less than 20" / 2300 and keep reducing throttle to not run over them (16"? 17"?). It worked well when I paid close attention to power settings the first flight or two, then used it the rest of the day.

Could you see anything before that? Or tell position of the flight controls?

Often the big city FBOs publish overnight parking rates and fuel prices, sometimes with a note of "one night free with XX gallons purchased." Then when I stay overnight, there are four additional fees on the bill . . . . Or I drop in for lunch, stay an hour and a half and am asked for the full overnight fee and a handling fee. This type of treatment makes pilots not go back to eat, and often leads to closure of on-field restaurants due to loss of fly-in business. Maybe we should all call the businesses we visited, and tell them that the FBO added $25.00 to our lunch bill, so we will not be coming back again. Then the business could pressure the FBO directly (along with face-to-face pilot complaints) and the airport manager. When paying that $20 parking fee and the $5 handling fee for them to do no handling and only provide a walkway from the ramp to the sidewalk, I always comment negatively and when in a bad mood, vigorously, with comments about never coming back. If only there was a way to spread the word, somewhere to post a true comment that wouldn't get taken down, leaving only the positive ones behind . . . .

Raise the nose, push full rudder to the left for extra working space on the right pedal. Reverse for the left one.

He makes a lot more than 3 posts every two days. Maybe you meant October 30?

Looks like fun!

Ask @Wildhorsesracing . . . . I think it looks pretty good!

I bolded the easy to do parts that will save money and headaches. Can't comment on LOP, as your injected engine does that much different [and easier!] than my carbureted one . . . Have fun, learn lots and fly safe!

Jerry was my PPP instructor when I first bought my Mooney. I hit 100 hrs Total Time enroute to the clinic; I still use much of what he taught me when I fly.

Bless you, Diag! Chainsaw cleanup is hard work!! BTDT . . . .

Click on his avatar. They are on all of our pages . . . Anything to make an anthony-styled bulleted list! Yes, "anthony" not capitalized on purpose. Or should I have used "-a" instead?

Hmmm, here are Anthony's current stats: 19,925 posts 5,566 reputation points 90 days won Joined 13 June '09 Last visited 11 hours ago [just changed from 10 hours ago], so last visit at 0130 CST / 0230 EST. from memory, he is on almost every day early mornings, before my 0500 CST breakfast mid-afternoon evenings nights after I go to bed He is listed as "Non-Stop reader/writer" My guess is that he will hit the magic 20,000 posts on Saturday, maybe late Friday night but in the early hours of Saturday morning. Not a psychiatrist, just an engineer . . . .

Because it's low enough power to avoid the Red Box, but still enough to make good speed. Search and find the chart . . . Should be in one or more of the referenced Pelican articles. DO NOT search MooneySpace for LOP, unless you have hours to kill!! SECOND on the MAPA PPP. The sooner you go, the less bad habits you will have to unlearn. They will teach you how to manage your engine properly, what speeds to use when. My first was a mere 5 weeks after I finished my insurance dual, and I'm still flying like they taught and applying the lessons learned. See www.mooneypilots.com for details.

When my dad retired, he left frigid North Georgia in early February and drove south until he had to turn on the AC in his truck. Stayed in Frostproof, Florida for about 10 years . . .

All I used to need was 2G. Looking for longer useful life for the next one.

Truth, my old switch is gone. Anybidy making 4G cell switches???

Tanis and a cell switch. The cell switch is da bomb! I'd call the night before a breakfast run, my engine was the warmest part of the whole hangar. Even at 8° F.

No I don't. But he's at KGGG, Longview, TX. LASAR is somewhere in CA, maybe Stockton? I'd have to either google them or look for a receipt. Good luck!

Try LASAR, Don Maxwell, Jerry Presley @acpartswhse or your favorite salvage yard. I wonder if McFarland could make one, like they do with throttle / prop / mixture cables?

Joey Cole, Mooney Service Center, KDNN, Dalton, GA. Who's in Dahlonega, and how much Mooney knowledge / experience do they have?

But it won't include ground time. I've spent 15-20 minutes on the ground, waiting to go, and since I had started moving a mile back, it all counted as flight time.

You always struck me as a pretty smart fellow, Gus!

Upgrade to LED or not, you will still need to find and fix the short . . . .

70 mph is my normal speed over the numbers solo. Short field should be 1.2 Vs, or 63 mph solo (both speeds with Takeoff flaps). My flight review earlier this year finished up with a No Flap landing at my 3200' home field, so instead of ~72mph I was more like 90 mph. Took the turnoff at the end with only light braking, not feeling the need for hard braking to make the exit before the end. (Brake pads are expensive!.) Throttle is generally at idle well before the runway . . . On every landing regardless of available length. P.S.--raising flaps in the flare will set the plane down promptly, but it's hardly recommended procedure. Come in at the right speed for your weight in that landing, realizing that your POH / Owners Manual gives stall speeds only at gross weight.

How does installing a Hobbs save any money? I do maintenance by Tach hours and log flight time by either the yoke clock or my watch. Logged flight time ALWAYS exceeds tach time . . . . So how does spending money to duplicate my redundant yoke clock and watch do anything for me at all, besides cost money to purchase and more money to install??? It's already easy enough to forget to write the number down after every flight when I'm looking at it, much less when it's buried behind the back seat somewhere.