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  1. Hank
    Anybody want to meet for lunch before / after PAR at KMAI on Friday? Supposed to be ugly Saturday.
  2. Hank
    Me, too! I added the HP to a Flight Review just to do something different. Very draggy, easy to control, but turns were different--I had to remember to establish the bank angle then turn the yoke back to level. Remembering right rudder was easy, I do that now from runway to cruise anyway.
  3. Hank
    I got the HP endorsement one year concurrent with my Flight Review. Didn't notice the C182 climbed any better than my M20-C, didn't go as fast, was incredibly easy to slow down on approach. Don't recall much acceleration on descent. Did use a little more rudder at full throttle but not a lot more. Then again, my C has a 3-blade Hartzell on the nose. Easy peasy. Go for it.
  4. Hank
    Yes, THAT signature block is very visible! But I created it in 2008, and now would like to modify it. How??? It's not on my Profile page that I can find.
  5. Hank
    I've looked on my phone, tablet, desktop at work and desktop at home. No joy . . . . Do I need to dig my old ipad mini out of the closet, charge it and see if it will still run to do this? Where does the Signature block appear on your Profile page? Mine is invisible and therefore unchangeable.
  6. Hank
    There used to be a "Signature" block, where I added a tiny little signature to my posts. Now that I want to add a map as you did, I can't find how to attach it . . . My map is ready, but how do I find where to put it on my profile????
  7. Hank
    Sorry, Eric, but I still prefer ice in my drink. If nm it begins to accrete on my airframe, it's time for me to declare and get out of dodge!
  8. Hank
    The War Eagle Flyer will ourun the Tide . . . .
  9. Hank
    You want a C model. Sea level performance is great, no problems operating from KJGG, many available in your budget range. Mine runs 147 KTAS above 7500 msl with 970 lb useful load including 300 lb fuel. That's 5-1/2 hours or more (I've gone 4:45 twice, landes with 1:15 fuel left both times). Mynwife and I usually run out of cubic feet before we run out of useful load. This picture was heading to KJGG several Christmases ago, when the nephew's were in jr high & high school.
  10. Hank
    I do have the guppy mouth closure and 201 windshield, but that's it. I also have a 3-blade Hartzell prop, which "everyone" says cost 3-5 knots in cruise, so I figure they cancel each other out. After redoing the carb heat box after it failed to Full Open and replacing the holed muffler, my indicated speeds increased by 10 mph.
  11. Hank
    Stop by here on the way. We're small, though.
  12. Hank
    Come on down! Christmas by the lake . . . . where the water is liquid . . . .
  13. Hank
    For cruise speed, check these: air leaks through the doghouse (cracks, gaps, missing screws); the carb heat flapper and hose. I rebuilt both of these, and now my C cruises at 147 KTAS from 7500-9500 msl.
  14. Hank
    When temps are that low, aim the pointy, spinny end toward somewhere warm!!
  15. Hank
    McFarlane makes replacement cables of all sorts.
  16. Hank
    My old belly strobe began to blink very irregularly, so I replaced it with an LED unit. No wingtip strobes, and the nav lights are buried in 201-style wingtips, not visible from behind, so I need something. Here is the old flasher and the new, much smaller unit, with the trim ring from the old one which fits just fine. I think I picked up a knot from reduced drag . . . . .
  17. Hank
    My wife slides the right seat forward only enough to engage in the rear hole. Her feet are not even close to the pedals. I have a short body; the F has five extra inches of back seat legroom and five more inches of baggage space.
  18. Hank
    I like this one!
  19. Hank
    Because of government inefficiencies. The bureaucrats have neither incentive / reward for working hard and no punishment for being slow. Many of them are just marking time, collecting paychecks from our tax money and waiting to retire, enjoying the benefits of being almost impossible to fire. How many years (decades?) behind is full implementation of Next Gen ATC, and at what multiple of the original budget?
  20. Hank
    Clarence rides to the rescue again! And now I know why you go by "M20doc"--on this side of the border, AME = Aviation Medical Examiner, the nice guys who give us our medicals. I'm guessing it's Canadian for A&P/IA, eh?
  21. Hank
    Every annual I grease the gear (8 fittings per main leg, 11 on the nose). Once the IA has done his thing and it's time to put back together, I start at the nose and spray Tri Flow on everything that moves and doesn't take grease. Then put the belly on to catch the drips. Repeat for the wings, but I spray behind each panel.just before screwing it back on. Same for tail, one panel at a time.
  22. Hank
    I started lessons in 2006, and was taught this way (three decades after the 80s). Now I "sometimes" have a tablet with me; it may be in the baggage area. My spendy 430W gets me where I need to go, except when I use pilotage. And sometimes when I have the tablet up front with me, the battery dies and it ain't no good then. I'm not sure if the speakers in the ceiling work any more or not, and there is certainly no handheld mic anymore. But the clip for it is there on the left windshield post, it's a perfect fit for a AA Maglite.
  23. Hank
    When ADSB starts doing all of that, I'll think about equipping.
  24. Hank
    My old Sportys radio [200? Had horizontal Nav] died, now I have a little black one with no Nav. I keep a headset adapter plugged in for easy swap-out. Haven't needed to use it in the air yet; the one time I needed the old Sportys unit on a local flight, it was in the hangar because I only carried it for trips. My procedures have since changed . . . .
  25. Hank
    But not if he buys another one . . . . .
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