John Pleisse

Quote: M016576 I have used the carevado M20J fir FSX. It flys almost identically to my actual J as far as speeds, time, and fuel burn are concerned. Slow flight and landing are a little different, but that's more a limitation of FSX than anything. I highly recommend it, if MS FSX is a hobby of yours.

I cannot ever think of a time or practical reason to run a tank dry. It serves absolutely no purpose and assumes some risk. Sediment clog, vapor lock, engine not restarting. Why do it?

The Mooney 301 debacle was a piston, a shared development effort and subsequent failure with Socata. The French company wanted the wing.....and in the end, they got it. Awesome plane. Another Mooney could-a, should-a, would-a.

Quote: jetdriven Those hippies and slackers have the balls to demonstrate.

Social Security was also conceived to be a benifit for those who exceeded life expectancy at the time, which was 62. Now people draw at 65 or 67 and expect it for 20 years, minimal 10.

Quote: jetdriven Different tube thickness or marketing ploy to keep older airframes from having a 1200 LB useful load? Thats the first I heard of different tube thickness.

Quote: allsmiles Paperwork and a new airspeed indicator. Why? I don't know, perhaps different reference lines.

Quote: Parker_Woodruff No. Your fuel tanks are "wet wings". That means that the aluminum tanks are sealed up from the rest of the wing (and outside elements) by sealant. When you apply excessive loads or impact forces to the wings (via landing gear in this case), you are putting a lot of pressure on that sealant in different directions. The sealant will eventually come apart in small amounts and cause small fuel tank leaks. Some are airworthy, some require sealant patchwork. Heavier Mooneys have always been more prone to premature fuel tank leaks.

Quote: allsmiles Along the general lines of this discussion, does anyone know what the difference is between the gross increase J vs the regular 2740 gross? Is it strictky paperwork or is there something structural as well?

This discussion was more civil than the last blow-up some months back.

Maryland...straight 6% sales tax and four cents per pound ramp weight county tax, both one time. And as I said, a Delaware Corporation in many cases is the best option.

Quote: jetdriven 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.

Christiane...partisan? I am surprised she had time left over from "This Week" to blog on Huffington Post. Unabashed....

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.

Quote: gregwatts I guess there should be some Herman Cain supporters here......just sayin'

Just get a DE Corp like everyone else does and avoid the indignant regret. Think we are taxed heavily now? Just wait.

I dig the voice over. Old school.

For years, I have used ASA On Top sim software. It is excellent. In fact it is an exact rendering of my Mooney 201 Power-Attitude Config chart. Flies exactly the same and it is designed for IFR training and proficiencey...Garmin 430, choose your instruments, etc. I recently upgraded to the Aspen system and like having a corresponding sim. Aspen doesn't make a sim of their own, however, FS Aspen by Flight 1 makes a plug-in for FSX or FS2004. Questions: 1) Is the FSX rendering of the Mooney Bravo G1000 close or exact? 2) Is the FSX-Coranodo 201 realistic for instrument training? 3) Anybody have any experience with Flight 1 products? Legit? 4) How realistic is MSX for IFR proficiency purposes? http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=fsaspen Also, Aspen Synthetic (ESV) was just installed today. PIREP to follow.

Quote: DaV8or If your home airport is that busy, you will enjoy your new tower. I flew for twelve years out of KOAK really liked having a tower make sense out of the potential chaos and keep an eye on me. I am now at an uncontrolled tower and it's not too bad because it's really not that busy here. If I were located at an airport that was a popular fly in destination I would really like to have a tower. The FAA has a very hands off approach to uncontrolled fields and when it gets busy, it becomes the Wild West with survival of the fittest. Since the FAA says that you can enter a pattern any ol' way you want, people do. I prefer a classic 45 entry if it's busy. If nobody is around, I do whatever works. The main thing that needs to be pointed out is, everyone needs to be on radio and report your position in terms everyone can understand even if you don't think anyone else is in the pattern. Just like web forums, the CTAF has lurkers.

Quote: rob Very true.

So a famous FAA Examiner in our area and I were talking one day. I asked if any of the 6,000 plus PP certs (actually over 10,000 incl ratings) she had issued resulted in any crashes and/or fatalities. She said she knew of two. One was a Baron engine out on departure and it ended sadly. The other was a PP she had issued to a gentleman who owned a Cub. He had to put it down on I-270 NW of D.C.. I asked how he could have died botching something so survivable. She said, he did survive. He caused a car to swerve, resulting in an auto fatality. I am sure, when the engine quits, especially at night, few of us will recall the pontification on Mooneyspace and do .......whatever it takes.

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Quote: Hank I remember reading about a poor soul who put a Mooney down in the treetops at night two or three years ago, southern Alabama/Georgia/N. Florida area. After daylight he climbed down, walked around, found a house and used their phone to call 911. I've also read recently about someone in Virginia who tried putting a long-body down on a dirt road between a plowed field and the woods, and hit a tree, spinning into the rest of them.

http://www.moapilot.com/pdf/Dec02/dec02_pt1.pdf http://www.donkaye.com/Dons_Homepage/Bob_Krommer_on_Mooney_Slips-Part_2.html Don Kaye's website is awesome. Can't find Trey's stuff without digging throught the MAPA archives.

As roads go, interstates only. Straddle the median first, then pick a lane. All other times, agricultural paralleling rows. Night, fly to light.....just like a moth to a front porch light.