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    Shangri-la
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    King Tut had a Mooney? Cool.
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    Talk about baggage space: I rode an empty C-141 from Okinawa to California once. Sat way too many hours in an uncomfortable web seat. I felt like a pea rattling around in a boxcar. A frozen pea: You think the back seat of a Mooney is cold....
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    “The visibility is often better at the approach end of the runway than between the RVR sensors”.
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    That’s certainly not what 91.175 states.
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    Part 91.175 ops require adherence to minimum visibility requirements. Just like the big boys doing 121 operations. All categories of a typical ILS have the same min RVR, so speed of the approach is also not relevant. Maybe I’m being too oblique: Landing (technically: continued descent below DA/DH) when the RVR is insufficient for airliners under 121 is generally illegal for Part 91 operations, too. Even for Mooneys.
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    The RVR for the several KOKC ILS approaches I just looked at have the same RVR for all categories straight in.
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    I use the Sidewinder for the PA46. It has enough power to move that 4000# plane in and out. Compared to a small gas powered engine tug the Sidewinder price is comparable. I sold my Power Tow III once the Sidewinder proved itself.
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    The Sidewinder works well for moving a Mooney. Plenty of power to get around the ramp or over the hangar door rails. Folded it will fit in the baggage area.
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    No problem: Go to Bartow & drive the few miles to LAL.
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    The (lack of) strategy predates social media: Mooney easily could have known I owned 3 of their planes over several decades. But their sales group never sent me so much as a postcard. By contrast, Cirrus tried hard to sell me their planes.
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    CFIT?
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    I was strolling around the B-47 at Wright-Patterson a few years ago and I was struck by how radical a step forward it represented. First flown late in 1947, it was contemporary with the B-29 and DC-4 but almost everything about the B-47 was new both in hardware and concept. It looks like the progenitor of every airliner now so we tend to forget what a shock it must have been to the observer in the late 1940s.
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    GARMIN GTX33 ES TRANSPONDER —— SOLD Removed for upgrade (to a diversity GTX33DES) just last month. Working fine. 8130 available. Posted on eBay: No reserve auction. https://www.ebay.com/itm/GARMIN-GTX33-ES-TRANSPONDER-2020-ADS-B-Compliant-011-00779-30/223744092886?pageci=16a76712-a0c6-4569-9f5b-33ea850fe209
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    It’s a new century, товарищ.
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    “No booze” car gas, of high octane and delivered to the airport is probably more expensive than Regular at CostCo. By a lot. Likely JetA is comparable in price with a hypothetical Mogas at your local FBO. But Mogas does smell better than JetA.
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    With CAD tools a new panel is a lot easier to fabricate now. A nice <1 AMU tablet seems a great upgrade for the copilot side. Here’s an iPad Pro doing a fine job in a “temporary” panel mount. Sure it will look obsolete in 5 years. So will your KLN89 & Narco MK12D.
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    Do the GPS jamming sessions also take down GLONASS? I ask as some newer iPad models and the Area 660 track both systems. If only GPS is jammed in scheduled events such as then a receiver that also uses GLONASS signals would seem a worthwhile backup to have available.
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    The Mooney 20 series was a good design & was in production for many decades. I felt the M10 was a good try: A composite, diesel, trainer and X-country versions, ready to survive the demise of 100LL. Sorry the M10 series couldn’t be realized.
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    This manufacturer’s site has drag figures for a number of common GA antennas. RAMI Antennas Your com antennas have 2-3 pounds drag each at 250 mph. Antenna drag (approximately) increases at the square of the speed increase. So at Mooney C speeds the antenna drag will be perhaps 1/3 of the 250 mph figures.
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    Gee....I want all of those simultaneously, too.
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    Well, we all agree qualitatively -- pathetically low production figures.
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    Production was 14 last year.....
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    Darn.
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