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I spent 24 hours in the last month flying a Seneca II. It made me really love my Mooney even more! That was the most horrible excuse for an airplane I've ever flown. But, I'm a multi ATP now... and im really current on instruments.

The limits on the electric fuel pump is the green arc on the fuel pressure gauge. My experience is the engine will stumble if the fuel pressure gets below the green arc.

Don't forget those lines on your upper arm from bending it over a sharp piece of sheet metal.

The Don Maxwell article referenced above is all you need, it is the method I use and it works every time.

I would get the aileron rigging fixed first, then add whatever rudder trim you need to get the ball in the middle. The book says to adjust a heavy aileron by bending its trailing edge. Most people don't want to do that and adjust the flap up stops.

So, check it along the path and see where it turns brown. Sump the tanks, get some from the fuel selector, disconnect the fuel line at the firewall and get some fuel before it goes through the mechanical fuel pump. My thought is that there is varnish buildup somewhere in the system from years of old fuel evaporating and the new fuel is dissolving the varnish and washing it out of the system.

That is the right stuff, 1 QT should be plenty. Do you know how to bleed the brakes?

Remember the DC10 in Souix City that landed with no controls at all.

How did they pick it up so they could get the gear down?

Around here it's cheaper than it has been in 10 years.

So, in my estimation, the only meaningful mitigation for Global Warming would be the global elimination of personal transportation and air conditioning. Anything else is just window dressing! So, buy a new pair of shorts and drive to the sunny beaches of Canada!

People have been under the impression that some technological solution will replace fossil fuel and everything will go on as usual. All the critical analysis I have read has shown that that is impossible. Most people don't realize how much of the stuff is consumed. If we could put in massive solar infrastructure, build about 10 times the nuclear plants we have now, we may be able to get by with electric transportation. Save the limited supply of liquid fuels for things like Mooneys! Not to mention how much fossil fuel is required to support the nuclear and solar industry. The fact is, when the supply cannot keep up with demand, the price of liquid fuels will rise dramatically until some people stop buying it. At that point a lot of alternate fuels will become more viable. There will be no real money to build a bio fuel industry until this happens. Probably won't happen in our lifetimes, but it will happen someday. And all the global warming people that want us to just stop using it, are fools. Wars will be fought over who gets to burn the last drop of petroleum and the last lump of coal.

I had to ship a small box to China and it cost about $100 and took two weeks. I ordered a new pressure switch for my air compressor on EBay. It was from China. Shipping was $7 and it arrived 4 days later! How do they do that? The shipping company was the Chinese Post Office.

Other than the obvious big cities ABQ SAF SLC BOI, it is a pretty desolate route.

Ah, I was backwards.

I've never done this, but wouldn't just putting it up on jacks do the trick?

Sure, but as R2 says just because some PHD student does something in a lab doesn't mean it can be done at a large scale. Also, the microbes need to eat something, what is the feed stock? Microbes cannot create hydrocarbons out of thin air. Just counting carbon atoms there is not enough biomass produced each year to replace what is being pumped or dug out of the ground. Besides, so far all biofuel production takes huge amounts of fossil fuels. Diesel tractors plow the fields, the crops are fed with fertilizer made from natural gas, diesel harvesters pick the crops, diesel trucks haul the feedstock to the production plants, the production plants are run by natural gas, the finished products are delivered to the distribution points by diesel trucks. If the fuel products produced by the plant was used by all those steps, there would be no fuel left. While it would be great to use some of the waste heat from power plants and other industries, and recycle the CO2 they emit, it will never replace fossil fuels, when they are gone they are gone and whenever that happens humans will have to go back to a more agrarian lifestyle. As a side note, I used to ask people how much they would be willing to pay for a gallon of gas. They would always answer with a number that they didn't want to exceed. The real question was how expensive would gas get before you would stop buying it? They all cock their heads sideways and say "what do you mean, I have to buy gas"

Radars use a method of time gating the transmitted and received signals plus time shifting of those pulses to discriminate its own pulses from noise including other radars. Some also use polarization discrimination. The reflected energy will shift in polarization from the transmitted energy. This was one of the early challenges of designing a radar system and was solved long ago. Modern digital electronics makes the pulse gating method very easy to implement.

This guy is the most knowledgeable guy out there on bio fuels. I have been reading his columns for 15 years. Give this a read: http://www.peakprosperity.com/page/transcript-robert-rapier-scientific-challenges-replacing-oil-renewables

If you are VFR, just land and buy fuel. If you are IFR and ATC is vectoring you all over hell and you are into your reserves, you have a fuel emergency and need priority to land somewhere before they run you out of gas. If you are IFR and winds are greater than forecast and you are not going to make it to your destination, tell ATC you need to change your destination because you are low on fuel. If they say no than you have a fuel emergency.

So, why isn't the world overflowing with cheap bio diesel? If we converted all the arable land in the US with fields growing plants that could be converted to fuel we would not be able to replace what we are currently pumping. And besides I think we are better off growing food because I like to eat! The most successful bio reactors were growing algae and all of them, so far, failed to produce any economical fuel. When we run out of petroleum, which we will someday, put your Mooney on a pole as a monument to the good old days and buy a horse.

Sure, if you want to pay $20/gal for it. Currently the only way to make economical ethyl ester (bio diesel) is to use a free waste stream.

If I go up high and fly LOP I can get 150 KTS at 8 GPH. I can make that Cessna look like a gas hog!

Hay, Hank, I was just looking up your location and I delivered my old F model to Prattville when I sold it in '03, I'm pretty sure it is still there. Well, I was wrong, it would be more like 12 hours... 3 four hour legs, a good days flying...