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Gawd!! Clarence, stop giving him ideas! And everyone, please stop repeating that picture! My eyes, my poor eyes. . . .

So how is the IMC Rating different from the Instrument Rating? Besides less than half of the training.

That's why the suggestion is to bank ~45° when turning around like this.

This will significantly reduce accident numbers by significantly reducing pilot numbers. But I don't think it will reduce the accident rate (# accidents / # hours flown). Nall Report data contradicts your thoughts about IFR pilots doing VFR into IMC. Nice speculation, next time bring data.

Looks great! I like that Schmidt made it a short body.

Maybe erase the gear?

Me, too, Lee. It's a fraction of the time and elbow grease required by Mothers. And boy does it shine!

No pictures, but made a lunch run to Eufaula KEUF. Took their crew truck into town for lunch at Creole Corner. The grouper was fantastic! And I got all of the crawdads from my wife's pasta. On departure to come home (field is 326 msl), I kept >1000 fpm all the way to my 3000' cruise altitude. Passing through 2000' the OAT was 72°, dropping to 69° at 3000. A little bumpy but not bad. Leveled off WOT/2700 at 140 mph, reduced to 23"/2300 and leaned to 50° ROP, speed rose between 145-150, but was too bumpy to stabilize. Not bad for 180 ponies. Need to make a 3-way GPS run, but didn't have the data card--took it home to update. . . So we flew "old school," pilotage and sectional. Worked great.

I like them both, I'm just allergic to the full AMU price tag plus installation. So for now, I just have the dim incandescent red/green wingtip lights.

Wow, Anthony, you joined after me and have almost double my number of posts . . . And reading your early ones, if I can steal the line, "you've come a long way, baby!"

Not sure where you saw this reference, but go to the Home page, scroll down and look on the right side. In your phone, just keep scrolling, it'll eventually pop into view. There's also a post count under everyone's avatar when they post.

Spoken like a true pilot!!

I'm still using the HP programmable calculator that I paid two month's rent for in college, before the university equipped a PC lab with dual-floppy stations. Does "RPN" mean anything for a programming language? It was written up in Personal Computing magazine as a portable computer, along with the suitcase-sized units with 4" green screens and fold down keyboards. Although I have an app on my phone that replicates it pretty well, I don't think "RPN" would go over well in our sensitive, PC-policed world. Such a shame, the state we've worked ourselves into. Whoever said anyone has the right to never be offended by anyone else? Personally, that idea offends me!

Been there, done that. At night, too. Went full throttle on second bounce, and prayed myself over the trees at the end of the 3000' runway. Learned to pay attention until the plane stops moving and the engine stops!

Because my OAT, EGT, CHT and Oil Temp are all in F, but for some reason my Carb Temp gage is in C . . . Even the Performance Charts in my Owners Manual tell the change in % Power based on deviation from Standard Temps in F, too.

I've not tire shopped for my Mooney in several years, but the best I can remember the main difference between Flight Custom 1, 2 & 3 is the speed rating and the price. FC3 cost almost double FC1, and have a speed rating of either 140 mph or 140 knots. For my plane, Vgo = 120 mph, but the tires will never touch the ground at that speed. My preference is to land with the stall horn squalling, which is generally in the low-60-mph range. Why pay more for stiffer sidewalls and higher speed ratings? Oh, yeah--takeoff, right? My Owners Manual says to rotate at 65-75 mph. So the much less expensive FC1 works just fine! At 2575 lb gross weight, that's not a factor, either. Besides, when you price the tubes, you'll be glad to buy the less expensive tire . . . . .

The PO replaced it with the GPS puck. My blade antennas are both behind where the canopy cover goes on when traveling.

I track the identifier through Nav 2, piped into my headset along with whichever radio I'm talking on.

I keep GoodYear Flight Customs (1, NOT 2 or 3) on the mains and a condor nose tire, which seems to last half as long as the mains. The important thing is the tube inside, Michelin Leak Stops. Hardly ever need to add air other than the change of seasons.

That's why the cards are all numbered! I started with a cassette tape, then 5-1/4", then 8", then dual 5-1/4s, then one each 5-1/4 & 3-1/2". Now all I have are several USB ports and a CD/DVD drive. My previous net book had SSD which was very nice. This here stinking iThingy has no output at all, which sucks, as it's not always convenient to upload everything going in or out to iTunes then download it. Stupid!

My only Mooney experience at purchase was about a 20-minute ride along where I got to play a little bit from the right side. My other 62 hours were in two Skyhawks. It was comfortable, much faster, looked good and the seller liked it, too. So now it's mine and I have years of Mooney time in my logbook. Even my wife likes it.

Sounds interesting! Next weekend, too. I'd gotten an invitation to the FAA seminars, didn't realize it was a big to-do. May have to bring the wife and spend the day.

My primary CFI made me write my own based on the C 172 POH. One sheet, landscape, 3 columns, from Preflight to Shutdown. Emergency lists were on the back by category.

I'm not sure I've ever heard anything come out of the cabin speaker in the almost nine years I've owned mine . . . Wonder if it's hooked up to the intercom? Now I've got to test it! (If it ever quits raining . . . )

Lessee, you don't like Champion spark plugs because of a design flaw, so you avoid everything Champion and buy Tempest oil filters with known manufacturing issues as discussed above by Clarence, whose shop buys oil filters by the case and has frequent returns of bad Tempest filters. So you're supporting a known bad design of a product you use, in order to not support a known bad design of a product you don't use??? Please tell me that I am misunderstanding your statements, because they make no sense to me. Also, my Champion plugs are running pretty well. I've replaced them twice in 600 tach hours, typical performance for massive plugs. (The second replacement was during troubleshooting that turned out to be a mag issue; still have the old plugs as spares.) I lean aggressively on the ground and have no lead fouling. Never had a problem with any Champion oil filters, don't need to test them before installation or anything, never found anything untoward when I cut them open, either.