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Long but interesting article

In reading the Doctor's check list number 22 does say "Anything else the Doctor feels necessary" So I guess they can get away with it under that one.

Have any of you who have taken the Basic Med exam route ever been required to complete a 2 page written Cognitive Analysis test for the Basic Med exam?

If they are torn the fabric is probably old and weak and will just keep tearing Replacing the boots is easy by cutting new ones with a long open side and then hand stitching the closure in place with heavy thread. Fold the small end double and sew it for a more sturdy small end. Fabric can be most any durable tightly woven fabric, canvas, sail cloth

I have to add this- KOCH Chart This subject comes up every year and this chart gets lost in the babble every time ALWAYS CARRY ONE OF THESE OUT WEST

I've worked on those old water bombers with the straight turbojet engines. Put many thousands of gallons of water on them (CAL Airlines in the old days) Worked one airline where we had old 737s-200s (-9 engines) into Midway in the summer. You ask why is fuel so cheap for the airlines at MDW? Look at the runway length. *BTW we flew the highest time 737-200 IN THE WORLD at that airline) The company wanted to save money so they took as much fuel as they could there. We were always runway limited on T/O due to weight of fuel. Looking at those checker boards at the end of the runway coming up and knowing you had climb above them was interesting at rotation. We stopped that practice after 1 month at my urging. :-) Like I said before- high DAs in the Mooney are nothing to fear, just different. Check your numbers before T/O and be ready for a longer roll with less climb rate and acceleration.

My D/C lived at KPGA for 13 years. Most summer days were 7,000+ DAs One gets used to how the performance feels with experience. Its nothing to fear- just different. Big Bear is famous for overloaded airplanes due to the cheap gas prices there. Many many have not made it past the trees there on a hot summer day. They live at sea level in the LAX basin and go to Big Bear to get away and are enticed with the cheap gas. There's a reason its so cheap! NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND FILLS UP IN THE SUMMER THERE! As far as high DA takeoffs are concerned- you haven't lived until you do one at max gross (for the conditions) in a 737-200 with puny -9 engines on a hot summer day in Denver. Tire speed was a limiting factor as our ground speed to get to the indicated airspeed we needed went WAY high. It was a flaps 1 improved T/O IIRC instead of flaps 15. Lose one at takeoff and you were a hood ornament for 15 miles fighting for altitude. Do it once in the sim and it makes you a real believer. NO stones at the OP here because every pilot has done something where "learn by doing and don't do it again" plays a part. Hoover, Yeager and even Bill Wheat (as told to me ) have done it. I've posted this before but bears repeating- One is not a safe pilot until one becomes "tempered". And you can't become "tempered" until you do something in an airplane that scares the shit out of you and you know you did it to yourself. Flying takes on an entire different meaning after that experience. This may be the OPs temperance flight. It will undoubtedly affect every take off he makes from here on probably for the better. Good job of analysis and recovery.

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I'm a Luddite and just getting a tablet with Avare and iFly on it. What or where can I find a mount to use it on the control wheel? So many choices I have a headache Who uses what? Proud member of the CB Club. I have an 8" ASUS Android tablet Seems tom work fine laying in my lap or dropping to the floor all the time.

I suppose by "early" they are referring to the curve aileron Mooneys instead of the flat aileron ones. The early ones have a higher "break out" force than the later. (If this is the reason for not including the early ones). I'm beginning to wonder what it would take to change to flat ailerons I don't think there was any other change other than the way the ailerons were made when that change came out. Might be able to include all the early models then.

Leaving the rear step out will cost you some speed (a few knots) and a little rumble from drag. Get the electric step!

No one has mentioned WHY the gaskets need to be replaced every time they come off Copper gaskets turn "hard" after use on the engine and won't "crush" as they should to seal the spark plug hole when retightened New gaskets are soft copper and crush correctly upon tightening for a proper seal. One can also "anneal" the old gaskets to a soft condition by heating them cherry red a dropping them in water to quickly cool and anneal them. Copper and aluminum soften by quenching BUT steel hardens by quenching Something to remember.

If the haze is due to decades in the sun nothing will remove it as the haze is imbedded throughout the thickness of the plastic window

Or they miss one sticking on the plug and have two on the plug putting the tip too far up in the cylinder head. Have seen that one also. I buy copper spark plug gaskets by the 100 and any time I remove a plug a new gasket goes on. Cheap insurance. Also remember that Continental and Lycoming have different torque values for their plugs One size doesn't fit all.

The later manuals for the short bodies have much more detail on how things are/were done than the early 64 65 66 manuals. The systems were the same just better detail in the manual

My neighbor is a commercial property developer and was told last week by his steel supplier that if he orders this week delivery will be next February! He was told Longshoremen are in short supply to unload all the ships sitting outside Long Beach CA harbor They won't come to work because unemployment is paying them more Maybe its just a rumor I was told by a hangar builder at Sun n Fun that she checks steel prices with every order now because the price goes up so fast

Textron-Lycoming IO-360-A1A (Bendix fuel injector, Model RSA-5AD1, P/N 2524054-1) Here is what the TCDS says (above) Where did you get the numbers you posted? Is there not a definition page in what ever you got those numbers from?

Using a magnet and a small steel ball might just roll out that dent easier than on a steel door.

Works for jury duty also (or so I'm told)

Talked quite a while at S N F with RC Allen about these two instruments. Looks like they will be TSO'd fully in a short while (A?S ATIM. SLIPSKID etc) New battery location and easy change out. Thinking for a panel change in the short future ( CBs club) Anyone got them? The DG has no precession like the AV30 as it has a built in magnetometer They say they will have an HSI function in a while (proverbial optimist) Way cheaper than the big G and no big G shop required to install.

I did my dual x-country to Ramona from VNY in 1963 I might have to go back and crash the party

That's a 140? Boy you've really modified that bulkhead Mine was one of the first SE airplanes to have a transponder in the LAX basin. I was full IFR and with all venturi driven gyros on a C-85-12. IIRC 47 and later had the piano keys Rag wings were faster if you took the wing twist out of them :-) They spin well for spin training

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Still no takers on the movie THEM?