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N201MKTurbo

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  1. OK, Fine, we will do the approach back into KCHD.... It's just a pain, you have to talk to Phoenix to get that one. Probably faster to just do another in the stack.
  2. Why not? It will do everything on the list.
  3. I could do all that with two approaches at the stack. We would do the unusual attitudes on the way to the stack and fly an arc to POTER. It would be about an hour.
  4. When I sold my 06 Tacoma, it had 180000 on it. It still had the factory front pads. The whole time I owned it I practiced hypermiling, so I was loth to hit the brakes. They were only to hold you at a light. I inspected the pads every year or so. they were still good.
  5. If I was parked on the dirt for a year, I would come out on a Sunday when the city folks are not there and dig down a couple of feet and bury some concrete blocks or steel bars with chains and then fill the holes back in and pack the dirt down.
  6. The runways were federal money, I would like to see the city or county fix the roads on the city side. They were embarrassing last time I was there.
  7. I wouldn't worry about it.
  8. My wife was just cleaning the oven. She was using this stuff called Scrub Daddy Power Paste. She was telling me how great it works. I read the ingredients and didn't find anything that would hurt the aluminum or the paint. It has a clay based abrasive, which is probably OK on urethane paint. I did a wing repair a couple of years ago and the paint was a little speckled. I color sanded the top of the wing 3 days after spraying. it polished up just fine. I left the bottom for another day. Six months later I went to color sand the bottom and 2500 sandpaper would hardly touch it. So I don't think a clay based abrasive would do any damage. I ended up using Comet cleanser on the bottom of the Cessna. it didn't hurt the paint. I think the clay in this stuff is less aggressive than the super fine limestone powder in the cleanser. https://scrubdaddy.com/product/powerpaste
  9. 340275-27 They stopped putting them in with the J. Laser has one of the M20F throttle quadrant covers with the ash tray mount. Oh, I see you have a 78 with push pull controls. No ash tray for you.
  10. It has to do with the oil holes in the rod journals in the crank. The oil holes are drilled so they ar at the highest pressure point in the rotation as the piston comes down. This gives the thickest and strongest oil film at that point. When the engine is being driven, the pressure is applied on the opposite side of the bearing where the oil flow and film strength is lowest. I believe there are some torsional resonance issues with some prop engine combinations.
  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboelectric_effect
  12. I hate to be a back seat driver (my wife would argue with that statement), but, I would have steered off the runway and headed for the grass.
  13. https://medium.com/climate-conscious/the-policy-slogan-build-back-better-has-an-interesting-backstory-c41731e8282 https://theconversation.com/building-back-better-may-seem-like-a-noble-idea-but-caution-is-needed-154587 Covid gave the world something to Build Back Better from. Now that it has ran its course, what’s next?
  14. I think any charge big enough to make a static spark, would make that spark across the ball joint before you got the fuel nozzle anywhere close to the airplane. The charge would actually flow through the 13 ohms quite rapidly. If we knew the size of the charge, we could figure it out. I’m thinking sub-millisecond.
  15. That’s why racers and dirt bike riders use the Nalgene gas cans, which are not rated for gasoline. It’s because the modern safety gas cans are worthless for storing gasoline.
  16. The Ashby glare shield should be considered an inner framework for a nice upholstery job. It is a sturdy piece of fiberglass, but it’s kind of ugly as it comes.
  17. I remember my commercial check ride. I practiced chandels and lazy eights a lot. On my check ride I got half way through the first chandel of the lazy eight and the check ride guy says “you got this, let’s move on”
  18. I have heard about the bed liner issue and have seen the warnings. It’s crazy that you were one of the first victims of the bed liner. Glad to hear you weren’t seriously hurt.
  19. I have an Ashby glare shield on my J. It fits OK. You will have to mount the lights and I had mine covered in leather at an upholstery shop. It needed a little trimming. It is fairly thick fiberglass, so it will never fall apart like the original plastic.
  20. And it is the lowest impedance path to the fuel tank. At least on the side you hook it to.
  21. That must have been scarry!
  22. Sure, this guy was doing everything wrong. I was thinking of fueling from a pump or truck.
  23. Has anybody personally seen a fuel fire from static? No hearsay.
  24. If anybody was going to blow up a plane, it would be you. So I'm listening to you.
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