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good reading here, too. Note the days it takes for corrosion to take hold in their tests. http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-14819878/Oil-supplements-worth-it-for.html

there is a restaurant on top of Pikes Peak 14,100'. I was too tired to eat there though. http://www.visitpikespeak.com/cafe.htm

W100+ has TCP, but camguard has a lot more things than that. There is no direct comparison

Peter, yes you are correct. The government does not add value like a corporation does. It does, however, do the jobs nobody else wants to do, or can be trusted to do. Such as roads, building codes, fire and police protection, even the space program. How about the SBA? Student loans? Pell grants? Also, look at medicare, the amount of money used to administer the program is unmatched by private industry. Is there waste? certainly. Is the government too big? Eliminate half the military and ask yourself the same thing. The thing the government does is also protect us from corporations by regulation. Look at the Triangle Shirtwaist fire to see an industry with no regulation. Come to Nigeria where they have spilled 100 million barrels of oil since they started drilling there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_the_Niger_Delta I see no EPA enforcing the cleanup and I see no companies cleaning it up either. Yet people here believe somehow industry will self-regulate and do what is right. The cuyahoga river and the houston ship channel would also catch fire they were so polluted. Again, no one has come forward to endorse the practice of not insuring people with pre-existing conditions or rescinding policies. That is illegal under the new healthcare law. Quote: allsmiles Becca, if I may interject, I think you are incorrect. Big government invariably finds itself needing to get bigger in order to sustain itself. This translates to bigger and bigger debt that the taxpayers must bear in order to feed it. GOVERNMENT DOES NOT PRODUCE VALUE. The people do and increasingly government in a major hinderence. It is the same taxpayer who pays to sustain bigger and bigger government and frankly it's high time the government got out of the way.

Yep, it is not, but pretty graphic. There are other sources that show the military is half of all discretionary spending.

So then, you have no objection to an insurance company refusing to offer coverage to someone because of a pre-existing condition? You have no issue with someone getting sick, and the insurance company refunding all premiums paid last year and canceling the policy? Quote: scottfromiowa Byron: Cancer and other catastrophic illness or life events such as earth quakes floods etc... are horrible, tragic in their magnitude and impact, but...The insurance carrier is there with a policy for a price. They are in business to make money, for if they do not their employees and shareholders and other policy holders as well as society will be impacted. Yes, there are coverage limits and exclusions. Insurance companies DO make decisions on coverage and insurability. They must. They are driven by actuarial figures. They price and preject based on the "known". We in the US are free to spend every dime we make and NOT save for the future. We are free to spend our money on airplanes and life insurance or not. We are free to buy flood and quake insurance supplemental medical insurance...or not. This is America where we have freedom to choose to do or NOT do. Why do you love big government and revile Insurance carriers? The insurance carrier is about choice and policy coverage. The government is about mandates and "Must". What has happened to self determination, decision making, controlling ones destiny in this country? When did we start expecting everyone else to be responsible for our problems that were often based on our decisions and lifestyles?

Are you denying that someone with a history of cancer, or a diagnosis of one, could be "uninsurable"? Ever heard of recission of policy? One good thing from these new rules is that insurance companies can now no longer "dump" someone or rescind their policy when they get sick. Nobody cares until it is them.

Check the winds aloft and the clouds. I prefer the southern route as you don't have to fly as high therefore less headwind. But since you are going from Little Rock, El Paso is too far out of the way. Tucamcari is a nice stop. Holbrook, AZ was an interesting little FBO and will give you a car to go into town.

Swimming pools kill more children than guns in the house or airplanes, yet airplanes and guns are percieved to be more dangerous than pools.

Half of all discretionary spending is the military. http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm I wonder how much we could give back to the people or how much we could lower taxes if we weren't fighting two wars and smothering the planet with our military. Quote: Skywarrior "Given half the federal budget goes to the military, the government got you a pretty good start in life." Actual Percentage of Federal Budget spent on Defense: 15%

I suppose old Herman might be dead if insurance companies could drop him, after all, cancer is a "pre-existing condition." However, he is still wealthy enough to afford his own coverage. he never said what his premiums are, either. Quote: N4352H Any person who beats stage 4 colon and liver cancer and can run for president, deserves a nod. Health Care? He's lived it. Flat Tax? Somebody more charismatic than Steve Forbes has to sell it. His message has kinks, but I hope he ends up being a player.....in any capacity. The Man is a winner.

I suppose old Herman might be dead if insurance companies could drop him, after all, cancer is a "pre-existing condition." However, he is still wealthy enough to afford his own coverage. he never said what his premiums are, either. Quote: N4352H Any person who beats stage 4 colon and liver cancer and can run for president, deserves a nod. Health Care? He's lived it. Flat Tax? Somebody more charismatic than Steve Forbes has to sell it. His message has kinks, but I hope he ends up being a player.....in any capacity. The Man is a winner.

Are all brokers the same?

interestingly its on left base to the airport. Look how close he was.

The idea that lowering regulation or taxes will cause corporations to "take more risk" and "create jobs" is a fallacy. Corporations are sitting more cash than any time in history, 2 Trillion dollars, give or take. Are they "using this to create jobs"? No, they are sitting on it, creating jobs overseas, or buyign their own stock back, perhaps the biggest waste of all. Dont fall for it, folks. http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2011/06/21/a-trillion-in-corporate-cash-will-help-shareholders-create-no-new-jobs/

"In a moment of quiet reflection, they'll concede that the other brand is a broken down piece of crap that never should have gotten loose from the factory." -- Aviation Consumer on the rivalry between Mooney and Bonanza owners, December, 1999. 'Twin Cessna 4344R, be advised traffic at 6 o'clock, 3 miles, a Mooney, overtaking,' said ATC. I could just see the twin driver lower his nose and push the throttles forward." -- Michael Williams, Mooney 252 owner, quoted in Aviation Consumer, 1989. “The Mark 21 has been dived in excess of 330 mph and withstood static tests in excess of six G's without failure as well as withstanding the flutter test at over 200 mph." -- Norman Hoffman, president, Mooney Aircraft, in Flying Magazine, 1961, about the new all-metal M20B (Thanks to Brian Newman, N78898 '65 M20C for this quote) taken from: http://www.mooneyevents.com/quotes.htm

The winds in Houston are L + V the last few days !

We arent the only ones discussing it. http://www.mooney.org.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=68&view=previous

AIM 7-2-3. You cna calibrate an altimeter at a instrument shop but you cannot account for temperature and pressure variables. So the AIM suggests 75 feet as a reference to suspect it as being innacurate. http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim/Chap7/aim0702.html ""3. Note the variation between the known field elevation and the altimeter indication. If this variation is in the order of plus or minus 75 feet, the accuracy of the altimeter is questionable and the problem should be referred to an appropriately rated repair station for evaluation and possible correction.""

Our bag door key and ignition are different, but on the same ring. The latch on ours feels cheesy, it doesnt exactly snap closed. It feels springy even when locked. I can see it vibrating open in flight.

Perhaps the unfamiliarity and uncomfortableness of running a tank dry to extend range is part of the cause of fuel mismanagement? And if it does happen, its an event becuase they dont know how to handle it. Inadvertenlty running a tank dry is different than doing it on purpose. Same with Stalls. The reason we practice stalls, for example is not to stall the airplane, but to recognize the conditions, symptoms, and to deal with the situation and recover from it. One could make a point that doing full stalls in a Mooney is risky, as a spin can cause a crash. But we do them anyway becuase a pilot needs to experience it.

Within +/- 75 feet is legal. The static port is on the rear fuselage.

Jared, that looks different than mine does and I have a J. Come to think of it, I haven't seen this style of latch on any other J either, is it the wrong one for the plane?

That brings up another thing that I always do, switch to fullest tank at top of descent. I try to time it to where it is empty then or nearly so, but switch then anyways to not forget later. I hear you, Ross. I drained my right tank with the gascolator pull on the ground, and it takes 2 Hours to drain out 20 gallons. Forever, really.

I put a used Troll FN-300 in our 1977 J for 100$. FN-200 would be more than enough. New is aroud 250$~~. It blows like a hurricane.