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Interesting, since conflicting ideas, dissenting viewpoints, differing opinions are healthy and a really good learning experience on MooneySpace. They stretch our minds, broaden our perspectives, help us make better, more informed, personal choices on equipment, flying techniques, and everything else. There is, however, a difference between disagreeing, and being disagreeable. For some, every conflicting viewpoint seems to be an invitation to do battle; sans facts, only personal opinion; that grows tiresome when it becomes habitual instead of thoughtful. Challenging another persons choices, perceptions and viewpoints should be done without making them feel attacked, inferior, or condescended. Only when someone is respectful, can they gain respect. Most of use don't have access to Novocain. Based on this "discussion", I plan to use my iPad much more often :-))) Talk about conflict - - Silvia says we have to leave for Church; I want to go flying.

Gee....does the "no brainer" Garmin GTN 750 have Synthetic Vision???

Quote: flyboy0681 Dinner sounds good.

Quote: flyboy0681 I'll buy the lunch if you supply the gas (the liquid type that is).

Quote: HopePilot Yeah, Gary, you WISH you were me.

Quote: flyboy0681 Very nice video, but Gary knows how much I hate music overdubbing. Maybe the three of us could get together for lunch. I'd like to see your "K". Come to think of it, I'd also like to see Gary's "J".

Quote: 201-FLYER I'm always coming from the north so I'm always vectored to PHK then to BRIKL intersection over the everglades. It's always a smooth ride until you hear desend and maintain 3000. Then the turbulence starts and were dodging the showers. There has not been a time I've been down there where my bird has not been rained on... guess it is pretty normal now that I think about it. I'll be down there on Tue/Wed to pick up my boy. Any room in your hanger?

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I believe the install of a hard wire mount takes no more than an hour. If you want a very solid and flexible mount, ditch the Garmin crap (I love saying that) and get a top of the line RAM http://www.ram-mount.com/Products/AviationMounts/tabid/108/Default.aspx Good luck!

Thanks, Nick, but in Florida that's a moderate WX day ;-)

There are a lot of worse tax exile locations than Texas!

Don’t fund bureaucracy on the backs of GA, User fees would be ‘nonsensical and self-defeating’ ...Yeah, go find someone else's back Excerpts from AOPA's Sarah Brown, which I've modified: The prospect of general aviation user fees has reared its head again, this time in debt-reduction negotiations. GA groups are urging members of the House and Senate to reject this “resoundingly discredited approach to raising revenues.” Over the past five years Congress has overwhelmingly rejected the introduction of new user fees, which would add costs for GA operators and a new layer of federal bureaucracy, but we need to take from your rich GA airplane owner's because "it's only right" and the federal government needs more than your fuel taxes....yes, new user fees. It beats reining in unbridled spending, or seriously trying to reduce fraud, overpayments, and federal redistribution innefficiences. So what if user fees have absolutely devastated general aviation in other parts of the world; we can create a new federal collection bureaucracy of billing agents, auditors and collection officials, to complement my new 15,000 IRS agent police force, so we can harass all you rich airplane owner's, unlucky small businesses, all dentists, math professors, and instructors, and many other wage earners. We need more jobs....right? This is real deficit reduction, as any "reasonable person" can "understand".

I know of somebody in dire need of a GPMS, but he's holding out until the Garmin "bulletproof" version is released.

Quote: Parker_Woodruff ...And posts are going in correct order.

Finally happened to me..... That's my post above.

Very nice landing at a most familiar airport, Nick, but where's the nasty or unusual WX? Nice way to pad your post count, Hank.

Hank, your cereal doesn't sound very palatable. If all you need is a back up and WX, check out an Aera 510 for well under a grand. There is even an additional Airventure discount, from Sporty's I think, on-line. It's a very good touch screen GPS, has an internal battery, your 430W can cross feed it your flight plan, can be very cleanly hard wire mounted, on either yoke with a single power/antenna cord through the yoke column and under the glareshield. Works well for me. You purchase may help keep GRMN's stock price up for 'smiles.

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Did you ever notice that ;-)

Atlantis landed, for the last time, this morning just before dawn, and now the long-term future for American space exploration is in question. The amazing talent that is/was NASA will scatter in the wind, and that type of resource will take several decades to reassemble and develop, and then only AFTER the commitment is made to do it. NASA's five space shuttles launched, saved and revitalized the Hubble Space Telescope; launched 180 satellites and other spacecraft from it's bay that ease our communications, make possible our GPS navigation, and keep us safe from attack; built the space station, the world's largest orbiting structure; opened the final frontier to women, minorities, and schoolteachers, and a host of other projects. The five shuttles carried 355 people, from 16 countries, into space. Two shuttles - Challenger and Columbia - were destroyed, one at launch, the other during the ride home. Fourteen lives were lost. About the same risk factor as a fighter combat tour of Vietnam, an astronaut once told me, and like any good fighter pilot, the shuttle program persevered and came back to fly again. Private industry says they can fly people to the space station within three years of getting the all-clear from NASA. Station managers expect it to be more like five years. As a skeptic, I say it could be 10 years before Americans are launched again from U.S. soil, and that I won't live to see Americans on the Moon again, or on Mars. .....as America abdicates world leadership.

Quote: danb35 ....As a doctor...... it's been Aspen who's been putting pressure on Garmin.

"Smoke gets in your eyes", and sometimes in other parts of your body if you're not careful. Good luck for I suspect you'll really need some!

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OK...the first time you're flying above a cloud deck, at just the right altitude and humidity, and look out the side opposite the sun to see GLORY. It looks just like this, and I've seen it only four times. How about flying on the northern tier of the US at night to have your breath sucked out by the Northern Lights, known as the aurora borealis. Never fails to amaze me.