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Hank

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  1. @hubcap, see message above
  2. I'm not "missing" anything! Here in Lower Alabama, it was 14° yesterday morning, windchill 3°. This morning was a balmy 21°. After warming into the 40s today and tomorrow, another slug of cold air will blow in, before we warm back up into the 60s early next week. I haven't been this cold for this long since January 2014. Then again, I drove down to Sweet Home on 4 February 2014!
  3. Probably just one of his kinfolk. It's hardly nesting time for the flying ones.
  4. I wore heavy gloves on virtually every winter flight when I lived in WV. Being a displaced Southern boy (since returned home, thank the Lord!), winter could start as early as October--I judged by the thermometer not the calendar!
  5. I don't understand the need for super thin soles to drive or fly. I've done plenty of both [living in WV for flight school and seven years of Mooney ownership] wearing insulated hiking boots . . . . What's the need to "feel" the pedals so much????? I can tell where on the pedals my feet are while wearing any shoes or boots that I own, and I've never worn anything like these.
  6. I think my '70 C has nineteen (19) dzus fasteners on each cheek panel; the upper cowling then has five (5) dzus at the rear, one screw at each rear corner, and four screws at the front. The hard part is getting the front corners of the cowling down between the layers of the cheek panels, sometimes it takes several tries and generous pounding with your hand.
  7. I just think about those cold aluminum rudder pedals, and the knee vent blowing air in. What's the OAT at altitude? 50-what? No thanks.
  8. It was certainly a pile of scrap at the end of the video . . . .
  9. I thought that was only for off-field night landings, if we didn't like what we saw?
  10. My feet are small enough that if I make sure my heels are on the carpet, then my toes are off the brakes. Every takeoff, every landing, that's a special point of attention. In cruise, it doesn't matter.
  11. So what will that monster truck battery weigh, compared to 100 gal of diesel? If your car battery weighs 1000 lb, will the truck battery weigh 17,500 lb? Talk about payload taking a hit! They'll need more trucks and drivers . . . . .
  12. Start your holes with a center drill. They work wonders!
  13. Me, too. I've heard a lot of very good things about them. Then there's the fuel . . . .
  14. I routinely drive my Altima down to less than 50 miles Distance to Empty, sometimes near 20 miles. Been doing this for 115,000 miles, no problems. That's less than one gallon remaining (two quarts plus a couple ounces) in the tank, then I refill with about 16 gallons. You do the math on the percentage, but it's small. I won't have a Diesel because (in random order): Diesel fuel stinks Diesel won't evaporate away like gas, you have to wash it off of your hands and clothes. Most diesels are noisy All diesels act up worse in cold weather Diesel fuel costs more What's with the other tank that must be filled up periodically? Exhaust treatment? Do people idle Diesel cars / pickups for hours on end like the big trucks do? Never understood that. Similarly, what drives me away from electric cars (again, no particular order): Range on a full charge is poor You can't use the full charge! Fast charging above 80% or running below 20% shortens battery life. So poor range is a lie, it's actually much lower. Cold weather performance is exceptionally poor. Batteries don't like cold. I'd hate to not reach my destination because I played the radio, or it got dark and I turned on the headlights. What do I do when the government is browning out power, says to not run AC at home and not charge electric cars? Are we all supposed to stay home? My boss wouldn't like that! Too many electric cars just catch fire for no apparent reason. Yes, Tesla too. Electric car fires are extremely difficult to put out, a handheld extinguisher won't do anything noticeable. Oh, yeah, the electric cars all cost more, too. I'm price sensitive and about to retire, which will make me more so.
  15. "I don't need no stinkin' instructor!!" You're right, they are reserved for people with functional aircraft, not piles of scrap.
  16. I have zero Aerostar experience, have never even sat in one. But I did once see a video of an Aerostar gear up where both props hit, then the pilot took off without the fuselage or nacelles touching and flew "home" for repair . . . . .
  17. The Grainger part above, which seems to work, has a 10.4mm = 0.4094" hole in the middle. A 3/8" OD = 9.52 mm bushing won't stay inside very well, just adding an additional bit of slop between the inner and outer bushings.
  18. Most wheelbarrowing that I've read about here has been on the takeoff roll, not in landing. Unless I've just misunderstood everyone [always a possibility!]. The wing is making lift, and the pilot is pushing on the yoke trying to go faster, lifting the tail and the main wheels.
  19. Had to go.into Setting and disallow Chrome from accessing the camera. Now it works like it's supposed to. This was a typical recent fillup, arriving at or enroute to the station.
  20. I understood his comment about rollers splitting to be a failure mode requiring replacement. But why did he not just replace all of them when the first one failed?
  21. But 3/8" OD is might small, when the rollers on our seats have been measured by others at 7/8" OD.
  22. Here's a normal look at my dash. Just a cheap base model, nothing fancy, nothing special. I generally refill with 14-15 gallons. Suddenly I can't attach a photo, "Add files" now brings up the camera to take a photo, but the ones already taken no longer exist to this button!
  23. Five years later, 3ZMN2 Nylon Spacers are $6.20 for a 10 pack. But the center hole is 10.4 mm > 3/8". That's a little loose for a 1/4" screw, isn't it?
  24. At a gas pump, I can add over 600 miles to my Altima in 5 minutes . . . .
  25. Good Lord, @Bob E! Two seats worth of ready-to-use spacers is less than a foot of delrin rod! Gotta love MS, now I don't need to rummage around for delrin scrap, drill and cut them to length. Thanks!
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