Jerry 5TJ

I’ve done this test with my Sporty’s handheld and a bottom mounted vhf com whip, and the 2.5 watt handheld is generally ranked by the ground station as “about the same” as the GTN750. In theory it is 6dB down but in practice the range is terrain limited more than by free-space losses.

A handheld radio will work nearly as well as a panel mounted com — if you have it connected to a regular externally-mounted com antenna. You may still have a second viable VHF com antenna on your Mooney. Get it connected to a BNC connector or whatever mates to your handheld radio.

flying above FL180

Nice flights in a J yesterday between Baltimore and Long Island. Good thing we departed Republic VFR as there were 25 IFR departures in the sequence because of the Ryder Cup. We “only” waited 35 minutes.

The Starlink mini draws about 60 watts. If you’re comfortable pulling 5+ amps (12 volt system assumed) through the cigarette lighter socket and the socket’s CB is rated for 10 amps, it should work. If you want to test first, wire a 2 ohm 100 watt resistor to a cigarette lighter plug and see. As your Bravo is a 24 volt airplane, use an 8 ohm resistor. As for me, I’d wire in a USB port rated for the power level and delete that lighter socket.

My answer is—neither. At go-around I prefer to teach “Pitch, Power, Positive Rate, and Pause.” Get stabilized and climbing smoothly before you start reconfiguring.

https://themooneyflyer.com/cfi.html The Mooney Flyer has a list of CFI with Mooney type specific experience.

Last month I provided transition training for a new 190 TT pilot into his M600. It can be done. It was not cheap.

The PA46 line has both piston and turbine versions. Same size airplane but the turbine variants often are charged higher facility fees.

The MMOPA FRAT app is designed for the PA46 community, half of which is piston and all single engine. It is applicable to our Mooney fleet.

My minimums are not a single number. I don’t say, for example, “I won’t fly a precision approach below X feet and Y visibility.” I try to assess flight risk based on a wide range of factors. The FRAT — Flight Risk Assessment Tool — app available for free on the Apple Store is an example of how a number of factors and their interactions are evaluated in concert to estimate the risk of a proposed flight.

Night VFR is very limited in Italy.

On my 64 E I would mark the location of oversized or odd screws (odd being something like a sheet metal screw driven into a nut plate) and fix it when I had access. After several years I had most of them correct.

The Garmin GMA345 audio panel, as an example, will operate in either 14 or 28 volt systems without any switching or configuration changes. There’s no problem with interconnection of the audio lines between the various boxes of your avionics. The KX165 is limited to either 14 or 28 volt power, with different model numbers for the two voltage options, which is why you have the boost converter to provide it with 28 volts.

When I was a student pilot I saw one (probably a 201) and said to myself “I am going to get one of those.”