Hank

ya'll justhave overly complicated flap mechanisms, with sliders, detents, etc. My electric flaps move both ways with this three-position spring-loaded switch. Push the switch up or down, the flaps move; let go, they stop moving. It's the little thing above the mixture lever, very easy to reach and raise flaps on rollout while holding the throttle at Idle, too.

Erik, that prop is gorgeous! I never noticed the turbo hump on the side of your cowl before. It looks like the prop is further away from the cowling, too. But it looks bad ass, and I bet it performs the same way. Now that you know how the Field Approval process works, are you going to further P-51-ize your Mooney, say with a B model canopy? Should be too hard to paint it to look like one . . . This is what you need to film yourself doing a runup. It should also work for a fly by, I think, even though it says something about 2000' range. http://shop.soloshot.com the new, improved model is even on sale right now, 39% off. Being a CB myself, though, I didn't check the price. After all, I'm trying to spend your money, not my own. Flight report requested, with panel shots. After all, it's not bragging if you can really do it.

Yeah, I wondered about that, too. Then I decided it had to do with the cowling a on the J and later models (because mine is aluminum), and other fairings like wing tips, wing roots, etc. plus windows on all of them. Don't some have non-metallic spinners? I'm guessing here, because mine is polished aluminum. they are probably getting ready for the composite M-10 series, too.

Hope you font have to go that way to the airport . . . . .

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my flight bag lives in the back seat, within arms reach. My wife and I ech have a set of plane & hangar keys, just in case. Yes, I've needed to use hers . . .

K, your F is almost a foot longer than a C. It may fit, but not like in the photos above. A through E are short bodies; F through K are mid bodies, five inches of rear seat leg room plus six inches or so extra baggage; L on up are long bodies, with lots of extra baggage space offsetting the extended nose to make room for 6 cylinder engines.

There's a thread here somewhere, with pictures, of an owner-produced replacement arm. "Search" is your friend. Good luck! Sometimes it can be frustrating . . .

Me, too, if the pricing is reasonable.

that's how we did it when I bought half of my Mooney. Nelson's rates didn't go down, they just added me to the policy and jacked up the total; I paid the difference.

This is a great deal! I bought a Parmetheus last year when my aging GE finally crapped out (fine at preflight, dead when I needed it to land 3 hours later . . . Typical!). The last year and a half, my landing light has only been turned off twice, at annual and during my recent pitot static / transponder check, when it was in for about an hour before he turned it off. Had no trouble starting the engine the next day. I've checked visibility at night, and can generally read the numbers NLT halfway down final, I think the GPS was showing 0.67 nm when the numbers were bright and clear.

Ryan, congratulations on finding a good person to share your plane with! This should help keep her flying more often, and that will be nothing but good. But don't plan to save anything on insurance. Your partner will have to get his own policy. It's not like adding another driver to your car.

Clarence can't help his spelling. His schoolbooks were all written by Brits. We had Samuel Johnson and Noah Webster who took out a lot of superfluous letters, but unfortunately left us with many silent letters in French-derived words. At least things like "whilst" have disappeared down here . . .

Use the sealant specified in the SB. Before applying a brush inside your tanks, practice applying the sealant to some cardboard, cut and taped together the size of the tank. Get your technique down for access, brush manipulation and desired sealant thickness. This is not addressed in the SB, because it can't be. Do what you gotta do to get good, then work on your tank.

Thanks, Ned. Ryan, what is "the ATC accent"??

So there I was, coming down towards the ILS on my Instrument checkride, by the book at 90 knots, when a Lear is cleared behind me as #2. Then ATC asked him to slow down 50 knots. He queried with disbelief in his voice, Tower said he was behind a Mooney making 80 knots over the ground. I looked at the DPE and said, "Should I speed up for him?" We were still 8-10 miles out. He said, "Let's see what you can do." So I raised the flaps, fed in some throttle and came down the glideslope at 130 mph instead of 105, reduced throttle just before the FAF, added flaps, dropped gear when I could and had a nice touch-and-go for the miss and off to the final Circle to Land at an outlying field where my Temporary Certificate was filled out and printed off. We do what we can, but we also expect similar cooperation from the other guys. Recently, I was flying into Auburn [KAUO] and a twin was inbound also. I was going for 11, he wanted 36. Judging by his tone of voice, he was frustrated that I didn't veer off and give him the whole airport. But I was on downwind by the time he was less than 5 miles out, and he didn't have to do anything to avoid me. I also followed a jet there once, he beat me easily, and once again I didn't do anything different [other than watch him make a continuous turn from midfield-crosswind entry to downwind to base to final. He even stopped on the taxiway to watch my landing. Much nicer guy that the twin driver . . .

That's the way to do it! Were your old pucks white? Painted when the plane was redone . . .

Well said, Bob! I started with a partner, bought half the plane from him with the option to buy the rest when he was ready [which came a little sooner than I had expected, but it has worked out very well]. Flexibility in timing, distance, destination, duration and frequency of trips, grass strips, etc., are all unlimited with ownership, and usually only slightly restricted with good partner(s). It can be difficult to find good partner(s), though. Good luck! Have fun and fly safe/

Don't forget to paint the top of the cowling! Assuming that you want to be able to look out the windshield . . .

But I really like the look of my polished spinner . . . Are they available in a J version for less than the price of the cowl mod itself?

My wife has commented twice that she was glad we weren't in a Cessna. I forget exactly the first time, but the second time we were crossing the mountains west towards Knoxville, at sundown, dodging build ups at 10,000 msl / 28°F OAT, making 68 knots groundspeed while indicating ~135 mph. Headwinds are no fun no matter what you're flying . . .

We're working this weekend. Had some equipment break down last week, playing catchup.

What breakers are right beside it, running in the air that weren't turned on in your ground test? You could simply be picking up heat from the next switch over and tripping the small Nav Light breaker

Gus, I just don't see you being that kind of grumpy old captain. This must be a tale of when you were a young shavetail!

With the current load of VW diesels, there is more to it than the position and force of your right foot: "The company has acknowledged that managers, struggling to meet U.S. sales targets, masked the emissions of new-car engines to sell so-called clean diesel technology to skeptical American consumers. The car maker said as many as 11 million vehicles carried a "defeat device," software that reduces tailpipe emissions only when the car is being tested, not on the road." So as I said above, they were discovered to be cheating when a portable emissions test unit was put in the trunk while the car was driven down the road, instead of being stationary in a test cell. Emissions were clean when the vehicles were not moving; this is a poor use of a car, to sit in with a running engine and go nowhere. And this: "Our company was dishonest with the EPA, and the California Air Resources Board, and with all of you," Michael Horn, head of Volkswagen of America, told dealers last month in New York City. "We've totally screwed up."