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Thank you Jolie! I have posted them on Facebook, not sure how to make that show up in our Mooney groups there. Is there a way to share them specifically to those groups? I will try to get them posted here as well early this week. Thank you for all of your support on these events!

Based on our participation in the Indianapolis Air Show again this year, we were invited while at the show by the Indiana Air National Guard to participate in their annual air show August 31-September 2nd, 2012 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. We should be able to get 5 slots for aircraft at this show based on discussion with their coordinator. We should get more details on logistics this week and we'll share them on here. Their website is www.fwairshow.com. Any interested participants? Just let me know. Should be a great time and another great Mooney Ambassador event!

The Indianapolis Air Show went great again this year and this time we had 5 aircraft on display for the event. It went so well that we are not only invited back for a third time next year, but we also were invited by the Indiana Air National Guard to participate in their air show in Fort Wayne, Indiana 8/31-9/2 this year! I will create a separate post for that event and we are definitely seeking interested participants. We are in the process of getting details on timing, etc. I want to personally thank our great Mooney Ambassadors that flew in to participate in the Indianapolis Air Show: Peter Wei and Cathy Martin of Crown Point, IN, Hank Sims of Huntington, WV, Tom and Stanley Kowalczk of Port Clinton, OH and our longest distance travelers Mike and Leslie Frank all the way from the far end of Long Island, NY! We also had a day of help from Rich Mercurio for the second year who flew in in his Bellanca Super Viking for Saturday, but he still has a lot of Mooniac in him! It was an absolute pleasure to get to spend the time with everyone and can't say thank you enough for making this a great event for our program and for the attendees at the air show. Great job and can't wait to see you all again at another!

I've been using WnB Pro on the iPad, found it in their app store and like it. I just confirmed numbers from the POh it's using for my aircraft, adjusted where needed and then when using it in the future, you just enter the weight in front seats, baggage area, etc or use the sliders for them and it plots the COG for you with fuel load you've specified and a line to another point representing COG at empty fuel. Very quick and easy to use. The only issue I have with it is that it has a Bonanza on the app icon!

Those businesses impacted by this campaigner in chief like flight schools or any others ought to be able to send the POTUS a bill for their economic impact. He can pay it out of his fund raising.

Thank you Omega for your post as I was getting a little nervous! I just replaced my regular whelen at annual with the Parmetheus LED and haven't used it at night yet, but was getting concerned about some of the earlier posts on satisfaction with LEDs. What I am loving is having to remember not to shut it off after take-off knowing I can leave it on and that is just one more thing making me a least a little more visible to everyone else out there during flight as another added safety item.

Just about 3.5 weeks to the Indianapolis Air Show! The headliner for the show is going to be the Thunderbirds this year. For any planning to attend, please bring lawn/folding chairs for yourselves and an umbrella is always a good bet; maybe having them will keep the rain away! There is an arrival procedure published on the Visitors Information page on their website (www.indyairshow.com) and currently it's the 2011 one, but we've been told they don't expect much if anything to change for 2012. If I see it updated, I'll send it out to our participants in the event. We currently have 5 Mooneys for the static display and any additional ones that join may or may not be able to be in it depending on their ramp space, but we welcome all and would look forward to seeing all Mooney Ambassadors that can make it!

Good point about the squared at altitude. Yes of course it depends on altitude and can't get 25" above about 5-7K feet in mine depending on density altitude which is why I'm guessing the comment about leaving throttle firewalled. Just running around Ohio or next over states at those altitudes, 25 squared works for me leaned to around 11.5 ff and I'm consistently getting TAS according to the Aspens of 160-165, calibrating the temp/alt on the other airspeed indicators agrees with those numbers.

I'm not expert at various combinations of props or engine sizes, but I have a 201 with two blade prop and asked the Mooney rep one year at Oshkosh about best settings and he told me 25 squared is a sweet spot for Mooneys, at least mine from a speed and vibration standpoint. He told me basically to firewall it on take off and leave it there until reaching cruise altitude (I'd always previously reduced it to 25 squared shortly after getting to about pattern altitude). I don't think all, but some do have a yellow line on the RPM that you're not supposed to go into for any sustained period. I know if I let it get into that on landing the vibration is very noticeable, not horrible, but enough to recognize I've let it get that low and get it back to just above that setting.

Very happy with the noise level in my 81 J using Lightspeed Zulus. I prefer though to leave the ANR off myself until I get to cruise just to make sure I can hear if the engine is making any noises I wouldn't want to miss that might be covered by the ANR. Once ANR is on, very pleasant noise level.

I've re-read this thread many times since the original post and haven't posted because so many people have expressed the horror and sadness of it better than I ever will; PK and Gary, I'm no poetry guy in the least, but loved both of the ones you shared, wonderful and highly appropriate. I will be anxious to see what they come up with, but just feel horribly and slightly sick each time I read this. It was one of the prompts on why I finally posted the fuel issue from last weekend. Many great, wonderful, sharing pilots on this site and aviation is a tremendous blessing I know we're all thankful for, but as others have said, it can be horribly unforgiving if something is overlooked or the risk played down too much. I am deeply saddened by the loss of someone on here and pray to God we don't have anyone else that we lose. Have a good week all and safe flying.

Thanks for the kind comments from everyone on catching this, but you're being very kind. I would have been at fault and should be if I hadn't. It was a bad mistake by the line person filling it, but we have checks and balances and the preflight is our side of the balance. To have missed it could have ended horrendously and it would have been my fault missing it. I thought it worth sharing in case anyone else would benefit from it, but it was as much a reminder to me as to anyone else. I love the ability to whisk my family away to places in such a wonderful machine and thank God for the blessings that got me to where I can; something I've wanted to do since about 6 years old. But, I try to tell myself every time I get in 45T, she's gorgeous, but she bites hard and unforgivingly if not treated or flown properly. I'm far from the perfect pilot and learn new things frequently as I did from a few of the posts here today. No more letting my aircraft be fueled without me there to supervise it; that was great advice from many of you and thank you for it. Jared, great advice! BUT, USNA is the most difficult academically or at least it was in the past. If things havent changed since the 80's in that way, USAFA is about in the middle and USMA is supposed to be the toughest physically, but not academically. All are great, but guess which one I got into! I had the USMC scholarship if I hadn't gotten into one of them, but did head to USMA and then with my 19-20 year old brain decided after the 2nd year to go civilian since I was raised as an army brat and wanted to see civilian life; long story and wish I'd done the full thing now, but at 20, being locked in until you're an old man of 27 years (grin) seemed like a lifetime. But, you are right, any of the three will do him well and definitely appreciate the USNA/USMC advice; no questioning it on my part.

I've moved to the iPad solution with iPhone backup for charts (dread ever trying to read the detail on an iPhone on approach plates, but will if needed and have tested it works). Prior to having that though for charts, Sporty's (www.sportys.com) had a nice cheap plastic folding chart wallet that would hold 10 or so charts and I'd pre-plan my route on them paper-clipping it folded at places so that when I opened it up, the clips had the part I'd need first ready to just unfold and view, then remove clips as needed to unfold further during the trip. If flying alone, the flight bag with everything else went in the co-pilot seat or floor in front of it. If with family, it went in the backseat. I keep flashlights, fire extinguisher, etc. in the pockets sewn in the back of the co-pilot's seat for easy access.

I cracked up at Lew's post as well seeing it this morning. One thing fun MrJones once you have your IR and I think good practice is to flight plan yourself at an altitude that puts you into the clouds on days that the cloud layer is only a few thousand feet thick and not too low. In that way, you know you have an easy out up or down if you need it, but it gets you comfortable flying not being able to see outside and makes the days when you "need to" (shouldn't be days when too many of us really need to if flying isn't our living) when there are not such easy outs much less stressful. The other 2 cents I'd add is to buy something with weather for the cockpit even if just a used Garmin 396 or 496. People flew without them before for many years, but there's something very comforting seeing the weather yourself on that rather than relying just on your pre-planning and ATC to avoid it. Just remember that Nexrad can be many minutes old, so use it for strategic avoidance rather than tactical (e.g. trying to pick your way through). You're in for a lot of fun ahead. Enjoy it and best of luck!

Thank you both and that's great info on the water expected to be in the recess. I noticed that yesterday after washing 45T, but didn't know that was a design feature. 11 years flying and I'm still learning new stuff all the time. Have a I mentioned in a while what a great asset we have in this forum? Have a great rest of your weekend all!