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Hank

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  1. Yep, that's how I acquired mine in 2007, with Brittain AccuTrak and AccuFlite hooked to the 430W in the panel. She wasn't cheap but was fairly priced according to Jimmy's Garrison's evaluation published in the MAPALog. It was never advertised, the previous owner had fixed it up as his retirement plane, then stumbled across an A36 at an estate sale . . . Just a couple of years later, the bottom fell out of the airplane market, but I've not regretted anything.
  2. Aren't ya'll about halfway down the Atlantic coast? I'm almost an hour's flight due north of Panama City Beach. Lots of great Southern cooking around, just not near the airports. See ya'll at the Summit?
  3. Didn't realize the theme song from U.S. Naval Flight School Pensacola was on iTunes . . . "Into the air, junior birdmen! Into the air, upsiiiiide down . . . "
  4. That's what I've been paying in Lower Alabama for the past couple of years. Just very few places to eat, and nothing at all where I buy fuel, and no fuel / food / services where I am hangared . . .
  5. I've only been flying for ten years, but had actual light color control three years ago. It was time for a Flight Review, and I had moved the previous year and called an FBO at a nearby controlled field to set it up. These nice folks conveniently had a 182, so I arranged to combine the FR with a High Performance endorsement. The Cessna, despite the additional 55 hp, was far less "high performance" in the air than my C . . . Anyway, I fly to the airport after work one fine spring evening, and the nice CFI says they've been troubleshooting electrical problems with the plane, but it's ready to go. "Into the air, junior birdmen!" "Up! Up! And away!" We fly around some, do a low approach at a military field right at dusk, and as we are heading back I noticed the panel lights are getting dim. Mr. CFI talks to Tower, tells them what's happening and I lower 10° flaps. We are cleared to land. By the time we get there, nothing electrical is working, but the green light from the tower confirming we are cleared to land is bright and very visible. So I land and as I'm turning off the runway to taxi to the ramp, there's the blinking green light from the tower. Two thoughts were uppermost in my mind at the time: taxiing at an unfamiliar field in the dark with no lights is difficult, and "Hey, this light gun stuff really works!" Rattling around somewhere in my head was the thought that this is my first flight in the left seat of a 182, and I just landed it at night, with no lights or radios, and only 10° of flaps . . . . I then flew myself home to my uncontrolled field, and enjoyed having a functional (LED) landing light. Never heard what was wrong with the Cessna, but I'm thinking bad alternator. So yes, light control does sometimes happen even now. But still, that's once in my ten years' experience . . . .
  6. You will never show outside pressure when the engine is running. When your altimeter is set to field elevation efore you start the engine, the MP gage should read pretty close, but because there are induction loses, it will read less after engine start. My Owners Manual shows 28" at Sea Level, and 27" at 2500 msl. When I get home, I can do a check with the engine running, but I'm based at a whopping 326 msl. Where are you based, and what is your field elevation?
  7. I made the transition 172-->M20C at 62 hours. Read the Owners Manual, pay attention to.yhe Performance Tables, and slow to 90 mph and drop Takeoff flaps 3-5 nm from the airport and you will do fine. DO NOT FLY FASTER THAN 1.3 Vso ON FINAL. NEVER PUSH THE YOKE WHEN LANDING. Yiu should do fine. Several times flying into the wind, my wife has commented that she was glad we weren't in a Cessna. Two things you will appreciate immediately--the takeoff climb, and the cruise speed. My insurance required 15 hours dual, and it became a game of "where arr we going to fly today" with my instructor. Be sure to make some trips further than the practice area, you need to learn about using the red knob, which I never used in the Cessna. In my Mooney, i use it on every flight that leaves the pattern. And remember to have fun!
  8. Truth, brother! In my C, it's all about airspeed control. 85 mph on final, slowing to 70-75 mph "over the fence" (I don't go places with fences very often, and with long, open approaches even less frequently), pull to idle when I know I have the field made, and glide down to the runway holding off as long as possible. Usually get a brief buzz from the stall horn just before or as the mains touch down. When it's gusty, keep a little more speed and fly it on, pulling power to touch down rather than before the pavement starts.
  9. I'm used to fuel being very pale, and I always hold it against the upper part of my cowling to confirm blueness is present. Doesn't seem to matter where I buy it, it's pretty much always like that.
  10. You should make the trip with a CFI whom has significant the Mooney experience! It will be quite great introduction to your plane, should satisfy the requirements for your Complex endorsement and much of your required dual instruction, and be a great memory!
  11. Part of the writing is cut off (wrapped out of sight), but it looks like it says "Max Pressure 50 in H2O." Otero that standard atmospheric pressure (14.7 psi) is about 32 FEET of H20, while 50" is a mere 4 feet. How many 14.7s are in 90? Several! Also, the shop air at work, supposed to be 90 psi, typically runs 100-105, which is another 32 feet . . . Should be a couple thousand inches of water. Be careful out there! Put a piece of surgical tubing on the pitot tube, pinch it closed and roll slowly until you have the desired ASI reading.
  12. Uphill landings are different. So was my first 3° downhill landing, some extra "float" on that one!
  13. I thought your recovery from the 2nd bounce by adding a little throttle and landing normally was good. I did that (in a Skyhawk) on my solo, and impressed some people who were watching. It is sometimes needed in the Mooney, and I do it then, too. If I bounce hard, or start to porpoise, I go around, but it seems that happens less and less, although I do still have trouble with over shooting final when base has a tailwind. In that situation, I just hold the bank angle constant at my normal turn (~standard rate)a and fly back to the runway; if I'm too wide to recover, I go around and pay more attention the second time.
  14. You absolutely can drill on the lathe! Just use a center drill first. Helps even on the drill press . . . . --signed, your friendly neighborhood flying machinist with two Engineering degrees (BSME, MSE), and two pilot certificates (PP-ASEL, IA)
  15. Just pop your ears, chew something or in bad cases, try the valsalva maneuver. I've been using the silicone tips with my Halos since I bought them in the Fall of 2009, love them! Love them, love them! No more headaches after 2-3 hour flights. . . . .
  16. Try the silicone tips instead of the foam ones. I never had a problem waiting for them in the WV / OH winters, many flights with ground temps in the teens.
  17. I thought you went to New England? <says the man living in the Sunny South >
  18. Your turbo will really shine when you take it up into the flight levels and catch those great tailwinds! Things I can only dream about . . . .
  19. Cloudy and surprisingly cool this evening after scattered showers moved through. I'm certainly not complaining! It's different in the afternoon . . . .
  20. They probably hold up well, until your ears change. I use the included silicone tips for several years, I think I've replaced mine once since purchase in Fall 09.
  21. That's what I thought when I bought my Mooney in 2007, and I've not done anything to the panel yet. I do have two Brittain units, AccuFlite and AccuTrak; I use the heading bug frequently, especially when traveling. I did buy a CO monitor when Dan set it up in the spring, though. And now I'm engine monitor shopping . . . Having a G430W makes a difference, though.
  22. No, it's here in Alabama, too, and my previous home in the Carolinas. Low humidity in the summer like that is a Western phenomenon that we must travel to experience firsthand, otherwise we must suspend disbelief . . . . I bet he wasn't glazed over in full body sweat before getting his hangar door open!
  23. Hey! I was born in Quantico, too. Dad retired at the beginning of 10th grade, just before I turned 16.
  24. At least you have wind . . . . .
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