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The good news is that with CES 2019 happening now both AMD and nVidia dropped announcements in the video card market. Depending on your budget, the just announced nVidia RTX 2060 is MSRP $364 and beats the former top in it’s class 1070 TI and also future proofs your system at the same time. IMHO, Pascal cards are in short supply and the RTX 2070 / RTX 2080 are priced to high for the benefit (other than bragging rights.) If that’s not your budget, DM me and I can help you do some selection research. If you can figure out how to send me your MSINFO output, then I might have some good news about your potential CPU upgrade path. It looks like you have an LGA1155 socket, and if your motherboard supports it the best CPU for that socket is the i7-3770. Tom’s Hardware LGA1155

What is the CPU speed and the exact name of the chipset? Having multiple cores doesn’t necessarily help with X-Plane. Xeon is typically an LGA2011 family, and depending on if your motherboard is new enough you *might* have an LGA2011-v3 socket which *could* get you into a Broadwell chip (such as an i7-6700 or an i7-6850) running about 4 GHz Under 6GB if video ram is also sometimes problematic. Rate your system at this site: Game Debate

This is the tool that I purchased and I am happy with. (We share the same problem with the Cessna Cardinal series.) https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mooney-Fuel-Selector-Arm-Extender/142560991626

Rick - When I had my avionics racks replaced, the A&P doing the work insisted that they had to be redone with rivets because “that is how it came from the factory”. I don’t have any way to verify his position or not; I’m just relaying what happened to me. YMMV. Chris

Agreed on needing to use the zoom feature on your browser ... as Dual says, usually hold the CTRL key and tap the plus key until it’s big enough.

Yeah, but I can store it for you here over the winter if you want.

We had Hailey’s cousin last year and he enjoyed himself after a few days of getting acclimated. It was also his first time as well. The big thing he wanted to do is ride bicycles, and the Goodwill store has some pretty cheap. Just can’t ride them inside the core zone, but you can all around the North 40.

Officially you are supposed to ship to GES Services and they are typically located behind Hangar A. You cannot ship to Camp Scholler. https://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/plan-your-eaa-airventure-trip/services/shipping-services

PM sent.

You can ship it to my house which is just off the North 40. I’ll PM the address. I’ll be there from today through the duration.

Thanks for the clarification. I suspect I’m going to run into a similar problem with my Century 2000. It seems odd that Garmin wouldn’t have designed for complete compatibility. Pretty big marketing miss, unless they were assuming people would want to keep existing AI as back up.

Garmin says it is compatible unless I’m reading this wrong: http://newsroom.garmin.com/press-release/featured-releases/garmin-announces-third-party-autopilot-support-g5-electronic-flight-

I understand they haven’t perfected cloning yet, so it’s a bit difficult being in two places at the same time. Even so, I’m not sure the world is quite braced for the combined energy output that multiple copies of the dynamic Jolie and Jan duo would produce. I’m with Jolie. Let’s spread the love (and the travel expenses) and recruit some additional presenters. I haven’t had my coffee yet, so YMMV.

Great job, and thank you for the write up. Glad you're safe.

The weather finally got warm enough and schedules worked out for some basic testing. The ice heaving the threshold of the doors gave us a problem getting the hangar doors opened. Checked the usual suspects, got it started and did some extended ground runs and high speed taxi texts. Ran it for about an hour and nothing obvious showing in the data so far. With the snow falling now, I don’t expect it to be above 30 until late next week. Both tanks are still around half full, still loaded with 100LL, still no water in the sumps. Pumps seem to fine. So, really, no; no news.

There are two programs for that. One is called AOPA Rusty Pilots seminar and the other is EAA Eagle Flights. Both are fairly successful but need to be expanded.

Here it is: https://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/aviation-education-and-resources/eaa-youth-education/eaa-young-eagles-program/eaa-young-eagles-logbook

One of our YE volunteers regularly brings his Debonair to our events, another brings his Mooney and a third brings a Cub. The rest are Cessnas of some type or stripe.

I’m a YE coordinator so I’d be happy to help you get setup and connected.

Do you have a Stratus 2 or not? If yes, Stratus ESG is the cheapest way to complete your In/Out setup. If not, Lynx NGT-9000 is the cheapest.

Shamelessly stolen, offered in the good humor of the season, and also very grateful for this safe haven of a community that keeps the shenanigans down to a reasonable decibel level. -------------------------------------- How many Facebook Pilots does it take to change a spark plug? - 1 to change the spark plug and to post that spark plug has been changed. - 14 to share similar experiences of changing spark plugs and how the spark plug could have been changed differently. - 7 to caution about the dangers of changing spark plugs. - 27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing spark plugs. - 15 know-it-alls who claim *they* were in the industry, and that "spark plug" is an electrical device threaded into the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine to ignite the fuel mixture by producing timed sparks between electrodes. - 2 to post that this group is not about spark plugs and to please take this discussion to a spark plug group. - 27 to defend the posting to this group saying that we all use spark plugs and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this group. - 16 to debate which method of changing spark plugs is superior, where to buy the best spark plugs, what brand of spark plugs work best for this technique, and what brands are faulty. - 2 to post URL's where one can see examples of different spark plugs. - 12 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the spark plug controversy. - 4 to suggest that posters request the spark plugs FAQ. - 16 to post "F". - 44 to ask what is a "F"? - 4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?" - 3 to say "do a Google search on spark plugs before posting questions about spark plugs". - 1 lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.... Stolen from Sarah Rover who in turn stole it from Kevin Larks. ----------------------------------------

I know most of us have a “next disposable amu list”, and I’d recommend putting put a 730/830 on that list for someone who doesn't have one. My Christmas was supposed to be a FlightStream 210 ..... Problem is training, AvGas and Mx keeps us away from the list.

Talked to an on-field A&P today, discussed what might be the causes. We're going to start with pulling the fuel screen and checking for debris. The JPI data showed the engine was at idle as I suspected. FF went from 16 GPH to 3 GPH. Pulled the cowlings off and nothing looked out of the ordinary or suspicious at first glance. I have the Lycoming Troubleshooting guide courtesy of another member here and we are going to go through it step by step. Just waiting for vacation to start so I can devote more time to this process. The day job requires most of my attention (rightly so.)

I don't see why Mooney can't have an "entry level" model that competes with the SR20 and serves as an upgrade path to larger, faster, more expensive top of the line aircraft. Not sure what needs to happen to leverage the company's existing intellectual, design and type certificate capital and get an basic Mooney out into the market generating some cash flow. I continue to go back to a factory (or subsidiary) re-manufactured Mooney ... scoop up all the derelicts at airports across the country, turn them around and get them back into the market.

Are you buying or selling?