sleepingsquirrel

Hey, let's change this thread to FULL BLADDERS I'm going to stay in the au natureal camp, bladders are like Madras tips on a C150 ,........superfluous. That is unless you paid for them!

Well, I guess you are all right about the lack of content. I'm sure the "surprise visitor" in the bridge jumping episode was antoher gimick to maintain ratings. These girls could easily be the next Kardisians. We just need to see more of them.

I had to laugh at bending the road sign over . I'm sure the road crews could only imagine the straight line winds of 300 MPH that blew them over! Ya gotta do what you gotta do. It was either that of saw 4 or 5 feet off each wing!

The weather should be good for this weekend,

Now I can clearly see that gf doesn't stand for Grandfather! Thanks for the pictures. I see that you are involved in two loves of your life ,keep us posted.

Yes, I figured how to accomplish the reveal several weeks after I bought the 150. A little time travel, presto ,chango, it was delivered . Time is erasing all traces of my indiscretion.

Shoot! I was hoping that it was the "Special Extra Reserve" HP version. Thanks guys, for destroying the illusion.

Hey, If he's like me he's still looking for all those quarters that fell out of the spring coils.

I've been watching the NOAA prediciton and looks like high pressure is moving in with clearing weather for the 26th. This just about covers the Southern Missippi Valley and the Mid Atlantic region up to knoxville/Pigeon Forge. Hope weather is good for all.

I've been informed by my wife that I needed to work on our boat today. I had a little foredeck project that stopped when the weather turned foul last Fall. Now that the weather is warmer I have run out of excuses. Well , I put on my work clothes and left like I was going to the boat project. I went to the airport where I finished waxing the Mooney and gave the belly a good cleaning. I'm sure that by waxing the dimpils as inspired by a recent thread on aerodynamics (ball peen hammer induced) I should gain at least 3 Kts . Any way in order to keep her from becoming suspicious I stopped by the boat on the way home , had a couple of beers and splashed some diesel fuel behind my ears. I guess as long as the boat is ready in time everything will be OK. For now I have too many mistresses, or More Mooney than Brains.

Hi, I have been all over trying to find the description of this Lycoming engine: O&OV-360- SER I think that the O&OV means opposed and opposed vertical for helicopter mounting ? What does the SER stand for? Thanks Sleepingsquirrel

Yes, it's good that no one was seriously hurt. I've been lucky that my lessons come from squeakers. Once, while landing with my instructor, he put in full right rudder. I saw him do it. I wasn't concerned, the airplane skewed off to the right and I didn't do anything. Next thing I know I get a friendly tap on the back of the head with his clipboard. " What the hell do you think your doing, don't let the airplane do what it wants"! "Get on it"! "Stay on it"! The kindest lesson I ever learned. Well , I feel that clipboard on the back of my skull to this day, just before something bad is going to happen. Learning is an amazing thing.

Since I'm a relatively new Mooney pilot I am trying to learn from these reports. What I have learned: A. If one is going to make an off airport landing, in someones back yard, doing it in a Mooney is desirable regardless of any other circumstances. B. My maximum cross wind component is when: I can no longer maintain runway alignment and my anal sphincter is chewing a hole in the seat cover. C. Humility, it can happen to me. D. Pick my days as my skills evolve , flying is not a contest with Mother Nature.

Thanks, I got my insulator/conductor values reversed. I've been pondering this and just couldn't pull out of the spiral.

I'm going out on a limb again (as squirrels are want to do) because I'm confused at the discussion that rarified air is a better conductor of a high voltage arc than denser air. I'm thinking that it may appear so because the charge in the cylinder is also becoming more rarified at higher altitudes ,creating higher resistance to the arc jumping at the plug electrode. This would explain any other weak insulation point being the a place to lose energy to ground by arcing. Turbo charging effectively keeps the cylinder charge at a denser more conductive environment for the arc to jump at the plug electrodes. "Here's the problem: Air is a pretty good electrical insulator, but its insulating capability (dielectric constant) varies with pressure. The higher the pressure of the air, the better it insulates — the lower the pressure, the easier it is for electricity to pass through it (in what we call a spark)." "Dielectric strength in kilovolts per inch (kV/in): " Material* Dielectric strength ========================================= Vacuum --------------------- 20 Air ------------------------ 20 to 75 Porcelain ------------------ 40 to 200 Paraffin Wax --------------- 200 to 300 Transformer Oil ------------ 400 Bakelite ------------------- 300 to 550 Rubber --------------------- 450 to 700 Shellac -------------------- 900 Paper ---------------------- 1250 Teflon --------------------- 1500 Glass ---------------------- 2000 to 3000 Mica ----------------------- 5000 never mind! I've been forced to learn something.

I keep MMO in the baggage compartment only for lubricating the door hinges and the door slide. Ok , I used to be a submarine sailor, one swig for old times sake doesn't hurt. Not a bad hairdressing either! The TCP/Marvel Mystery Oil option: These are most likely about the same thing, with small changes in the recipe, so as not to infringe on another's copyright. Both are high in detergents to do the cleaning job. Neither should be used for the first time on a high time engine; about half TBO or less should be the cut-off time, for first use. IN OIL SYSTEM Use one pint Marvel Mystery Oil about 5 hours before oil change. If screen type system, be sure to clean screen. Then, in the new oil, install one-half pint MMO. This cleans the carbon and sludge collected in the engine passages and crevices and hydraulic lifters, and stores it in the bottom of the oil kidney. Some will make it to the screen, but either place it will be removed at oil change. IN THE FUEL SYSTEM Use the directions on the back for amount to put in the fuel per gallon of fuel (4 to 6 oz. per 10 gallons of fuel). MMO goes through the carburetor as a droplet, broken up like the fuel. When it enters the combustion chamber and the gasoline ignites, it is vaporized and soaks into the carbon buildup on cumbustion chamber walls, valve guides, around the valve stem, and on the spark plug. It soaks into the carbon and eventually loosens it up and it goes out the exhaust system. Now you know how it works, I will neither recommend or not recommend the procedure. Like Fox News says,"I report and you decide". I do know it will help when lifters start to be lazy and not do their job. When valves are beginning to stick, it will free then up. Some people swear by it, some people swear at it, but results is what really tells the tale.

All's well when you arrive with all the parts you left with. I'm still looking for a few missing rivet heads . Glad to here you're in the air!

Hi y'all, If VFR weather is available I will attempt to get there. I only ask two things: A. That there are no attempts to place my 50 year old Mooney in the Museum B. That I am in no way connected to this forum as Sleepingsquirrel My wife may attend with me and some content I have placed on this site could be more volatile than kerosene and red fuming nitric acid.

HI, My old bird could use some new avionics and it never occured to me to hock the silverware! Is something fundamentally wrong with doubling the value of my airplane by adding electronic gizmos? It's bad enough that filling the tanks nearly doubles its value! Forget all the special tools just put one less biscuit ,land gently.

Thanks, I joined yesterday , stuck at home, snow & ice. Weeell, thank you, I was only over there (AOPA) for 5 minutes and turned up plumb scared. I'm thinking I should never fly unarmed again. Where did some of these people come from! Maybe I'm too old to fly, not arrogant enough to fly, I certianly lack enough conceit to be a GOOD pilot. Maybe flight physicals should include castration from now on. Too much "T" in the atmosphere. I'm really sad that this is happening.

Roger! Could I just make up some stuff and use the "rude pilots " N number?

Yes , that is true, but being unfriendly for twenty years and to many others as I'm finding out wasn't personal, but consistent. Could you please post a link to the "rude pilot" article , I don't want to be that person. Never mind ,I couldn't be that person after reviewing a few of the many threads about bad behavior.

HI, My experience is that my Mooney is not as forgiving as the Cessna line. Movement through 150, 172, 182 was pretty much a non-event for me . I suspect Cessna made it this way on purpose. I have plenty of low wing time in the Piper ,Beechcraft fixed gear,fixed pitch prop line but as someone pointed out adding too much workload in a complex too soon could be overwhelming. I'm a VFR pilot with no ambition to fly IFR but I can see how a Mooney would excell in that environment. All in All, If you can buy one at the right time and the right price go ahead , I did! , I believe the Mooney is a breed apart and can be a loyal flying partner, just don't tease her. Approach her like you would a skittish horse. Once mounted she will gallop off into the wild blue. It's just the getting on and off that counts.

I understand your problem . I'm trying to mend my 20 year absence from our local airport for this very behavior. I'm doing it by placing two planes ,and flying the dog out of both of them. I'm tentatively measuring my flying pleasure vs my flying angst from unnecessary harrassment from some self appointed airport police. Things seemed to have changed at my location and it ultimately will be good for business when more people like me come back. I thought this was a localized event but now I'm sensing something more sinister. Almost like the self appointed elite are using public funds for their personal flying pleasure. Let's run off the unwashed , the unclean, by using fees and harrassment. Kinda like an exclusive private flying club at the publics expense. Why would you want to run off an instructor, a gateway person for many (if not everyone ) to aviation? Instruction ,rentals ,fuel sales,maintenance. Our whole aviation community has been pulled apart. I had other avenues to fly , but I found it was the aviation community I missed. We didn't go away we just went somewhere else. I'm sensing that we may be coming back! "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore". Network

Quote: GeorgePerry Both the cumbersome, expensive FAA certification processes and unfettered liability lawsuits are the one-two punch that keeps knocking GA down. The FAA should have baseline safety standard, just like automakers, and if manufacturers can meet these standards, the FAA should stay the heck out of the way...Set entrepreneurs free to build, set businesses free to innovate, and set the public free to demand the product. In short, let the free market dictate supply / demand and perceived value...similar to what automakers enjoy. To aviators and aircraft owners this bold new world of "loosely regulated" manufacturing innovation may sound unimaginable. But to put it in perspective, just a few hundred years ago, popular opinion said the world was flat. Columbus didn't fall of the edge of the earth and loosening the certification stangle hold the FAA imposes on GA won't cause airplanes to start falling from the sky either.