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Thanks ! I've requested the FAA paperwork for $17 and see what is there.

Can I vote if I have a carburetor?

An aircraft has an airworthiness certificate onboard with restricted classification, aerial advertising. The FAA data base has it listed as standard-restricted classification. Can a mechanic make a log book entry to change the classification to standard or does the airworthiness certificate need to be replaced each time the classification is changed? How difficult is this to do? Thanks for some help!

I've noticed the cross wind landings are far easier than the cross wind take offs. The fellow that sold me the Mooney told me that using a little brake can make the difference in stronger cross winds. I think the V tailed Bonanza pilots use this as well until the rudder is fully effective and the plane is just ready to fly. I've never needed to try this but have it filed in bag 'o' tricks just in case. Any one else heard of this?

I went to a New Years party last night on Smith Lake. It's easy to fool the young and the very old but when was the last time a 30 something didn't know everything? I went to the car to bring in some food from the trunk and got this idea that our local Black Bear population needed some pumping up. A quick google got me pictures of a reasonable landscape and an obviously hungry Black Bear with menacing eyes glaring from the darkness. As if I had taken the photo the snipe hunt begins. With great excitement I explain what happened, my 7 year old grand daughter rushes to the door to see the bear, my son and his sister grab their cameras and coats to chase down this intruder. I turned off the front light and locked the door. They spent a good 20 minutes with their flashlights swinging wildely around in the trees while some of us old timers watched from the comfort of the cabin. We actually got bored and went back to preparing dinner. These two never saw a bear but the local Tom prowling around scared the bejesus out of them! The moral of this story is: A.Don't make fun of old people for their apparent lack of talent in using modern technology. B. If you are tempted to roll your eyes at the naivety of your 7 year old Daughter again ....... I'll probably remember to tell this story. Attached Thumbnails

My cylinder head temps are noticably lower as well, Last summer they were consistantly 380 degrees, now they are running 325 degrees. I'm sure it was the Camguard . I'm saving the last half of the Camguard for next Summer,that way I won't have to buy one of those expensive cabin air conditioning units. ( I couldn't figure which emoticon to use)

I put a half a bottle of Cam Guard in my M20B , It has reduced friction to the point that I can't get any heat from the exhaust heater muff to the cabin. The law of unintended consequences, I'm freezin!

The airplane is tied down to make it as heavy as the Earth it is connected with. Heavier is better. Once the wind is at cruise speed/ cruise AOA across the wing isn't lift and gravity equal? Increasing airspeed with zero AOA should not really increase lift. Inertia also helps with gusts that could lift a lighter plane and the attendant AOA increase. Makeshift spoilers of simple 1x1 s or sand bags would help as well. Great thought provoking question! My aircraft are tied outside and I have given this some thought. One thing I researched is that chocks under the main gear are more effective because there is more weight on the mains. I believe it is possible to make an airplane heavy enough that It will not take flight but just roll along the ground like a taxi cab. Consider that a tiedown line or chain need not have more breaking strength than the threaded tiedown ring. I have put the second tiedown line to the landing gear for that reason.Float pilots will beach their aircraft and fill the floats with water for security. However in hurricane force winds no matter how well the plane is secured it will be destroyed by the cheapest , longest abandonded, uninsured ramp hog that blows past. Too heavy to fly or roll! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIQqt0t9_qE

It could just be a sticky exhaust valve. I would try a little MMO for a while and see if the idle exhaust temp returns to normal.

I'm going to stick with exhaust valve spring because of the aggressive leaning during ground operations. I'm just guessing and hope it is simply an intake leak as well. I've heard that there are two springs on each valve, an inner and outer and that it is hard to see the inner spring when it is broken. By all means check the easy stuff first! I'm old and easily confused and don't have any money on the line.

I'm going with weak or broken exhast valve spring.

Good luck , I often used to deride IT folks , Now I love them, because either by design or through incompetence they are the only thing keeping Skynet from becomong self aware. I'm working around by google and put general in favorites.

I thought flying and raising a family were mutually exclusive. Keep the Mooney! the children will abandon you soon anyway!

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.........that is if one knows how to market the damage as an advantage! http://www.aopa.org/...ml?CMP=News:S1T

I'm not superstitious, but I'm sure I've got to go to the graveyard tonight and swing a dead cat around before I fly tomorrow. I'm putting new back glass in the old Mooney this evening.

Yea, Bad Karma

So with 5 aviation related deaths in my neck of the woods this week end, two at Moontown, one in a seaplane on the Tennessee river, and two in a Mooney in Cullman county. I decided not to fly this last week end. I guess my instincts are still good. If I ain't in the air I can't fall out of it! I would just say that next week end will be better for anyone flying through the Tennessee Valley. Maybe Bad Karma will be gone!

I'm willing to bet there are far more Bonanza Hangar Queens than Underpowered Mooney Runway Hogs.

I saw the pictures of your Mooney panel . http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mooney-Instrument-cluster-NO-RESERVE-1967-M20F-Shunt-/230840399481?hash=item35bf28f679&item=230840399481&pt=Motors_Aviation_Parts_Gear&vxp=mtr

I too have a mission to end "cat juggling", fortunately the youngsters I work with are not right.

I know the answer, but flying around with the gear down is just tacky!

Someone once asked me if I thought my Mooney was faster than his 200+ HP Comanche, I told him it was faster at 8 gallons /hr than his Comanche could ever be at 8 gallons /hr.

My M20B manual has Summer/Winter INDICATED airspeeds listed for different power settings and different INDICATED altitudes. The listed TRUE airspeed is one number. Perhaps the effect of humidity on pressure altitude is what makes the difference in Winter speed vs Summer speed. DA has no seperate factor associated with humidity on the wiz wheel. Rightly or wrongly I was taught that humid air has less mass per fixed volume so it does effect DA as well as temperature does. I believe this effect is taken into account when pressure altitude is put in. I've never in my limited experience been exposed to a graph that explains HP vs humidity. I suspect humidity displaces O2 in that volume of air sucked into the engine reducing the amount of fuel that can be combusted. I suspect TO distance increases are affected more than landing distance increases in high humidity conditions for a given DA calculation. My manual does describe climbing to 200 feet above crusing altitude to trim the nose downward to cruise altitude ,"note: as the nose drops the aircraft will lose the extra 200 feet and thus will accelerate more rapidly to cruise speed.". This sounds like getting on the step. Anyway this made me get my old manual out and review some of the important "jet like" performance touted in the Mark 21 Owner's Manual.

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