John Pleisse

Water...warm only. In the Allegany's and Appalachians, (esepcially southwestern WVA into KY), you can go for 100 miles without seeing a suitable field, flat land, etc, leaving your only chance to be strip mines and river beds in between hills. I always take altitude over speed when flying DC to the west.

Save yourself a little runway.

Quote: sleepingsquirrel How about we change the "positive rate of climb" to "when I'm positive I'm climbing"?

Ahhhhhh yes......."Positive Rate", that tatooed P-T-S catch phrase that is more applicable for flap retraction, than gear. "Positive Rate", that little cue from years of banging the PTS into your brain, that doesn't exist in a Jepp Book, AC-6121A (Flight Training Handbook) or a published Mooney POH gear procedure (J or earlier). In fact, the opposite. Allowable runway. I think I actually read a post on this thread that suggested "Positive Rate" occurs at about 100 feet agl. Well, what kind of rate did you have to get to 100 agl? I just sayin'. "Rate" is a function of "time" (in the case of this thriving discussion about gear, 2-4 seconds), not a common sense assesment of what lies in front of you and should not be a stopwatch for gear retraction. Use your noggin and save yourself a little runway. Sorry..."positive rate" is a little peeve of mine. And I am still lovin' the Johnson Bar, that cleaver invention that makes most of this thread moot.

I moved up to a PP 100a-14v STC. At idle, with nearly everything on at night, nothing dims, no hum, or buzz....very stable and reliable.

I am not proud of this, but I misplaced my G430W cards I brought home for updating. I have looked anywhere they could be. I have an inner-household reward offered of $75 dollars which has driven my 9 and 10 year old sons batty. They have tossed the place . Even the wife and 4 year olds are in on it. Any inexpensive means of replacement, other than spending a night in prison with Garmin and Jepp? John

Quote: aerobat95 The perfect combo for me would be a IO390, Top Prop, and Powerflow Exhaust....that would be a pretty sweet set up. Maybe like one of the guys said...the top prop and a powerflow exhaust....

If it it still in the $5,000 range installed, I'm in. You should persue a buy in two flavors. Seek a deep (and I mean really deep $1500 off?) discount for several guys, cash on the barrel now. Then go for the paultry $500 off good-guy-advertised-always in place-who cares-deal that would be their first strategy. I'd look for the former, not the latter.

Mine is the same Brett and it wears in. I have the same trim switch from my C-3AP and it is used now on the trim for my 55X. When I first bought the plane (and the other Mooneys I have flown), you had to press and push. Drives ya nuts...then the switch wears in. Funny though, I have never heard of one crapping out.....mine hasn't in 13 years. To directly answer the question...20 to 30 degrees...no more?

Quote: aerobat95 That would be a pretty sweet combo....I wonder what sort of performance gains you would see???

How about this....Powerflow and a top prop........ $15k would buy you a lot of performace....and reliability. I am due for both. No major exhaust work in 13 years.......600 SPOH (6 yrs), 3rd run on blades. It migh be time....

I want a ride.....

I was told by my MSC IA, if you end up needing costly exhausy work, it worth it to take the plunge and their performance claims are accurate. I also heard early production had problems with fit and finish, but those issues are addressed. Again, word of mouth.

May I suggest the following... Run a tank dry (or failing that, drain it & run it dry on the ground), and then add fuel in small increments (I went 2 gallons at a time) and make/calibrate your own dip-stick. Here's why I suggest this: When I got my airplane, I was given the information you are asking for. It was probably correct -- but not for my particular mooney (the numbers were significantly off).

Quote: Hank why do you not raise your electric gear as soon as you would manual gear?

Quote: jerry-N5911Q OK, suppose I depart KMHR with its 11,300 feet of runway.

Quote: allsmiles Smiles...I had four witnesses (2 in the air looking down) to the wind on him. 1) I gave the individual the opportunity to provide a more forthcoming apology, he declined. 2) I gave the individual the opportunity to pay a $450 bill to have weeds picked out of my prop, wash the plane and examine it for a prop strike.....he came back with an arrogant list of terms and conditions 3) Even taxiing off the run way, he was oblivious I was in the weeds. 4) He went behind my back to the head IA in the shop attempting to find out the condition of my plane prior to talking to me, only after taking issue with the FBO GM for someone siplling jet fuel on his wing 5) His first stop, once inside AOPA was to the legal department to size up his predicament. 6) Lastly, and here's the kicker Smiles, if something like this happens, it's your butt or his. You should thank me Smiles for seeing to it this level of arrogance in the air will never affect your safety. But then again, it takes somebody with the facts, reason and ability to do that, Smiles. I took the high road, filed an insurance claim and called the FISDO, not to get him in trouble but to protect people like you FROM HIM.

Quote: jerry-N5911Q If I depart South Lake Tahoe at an 8800' density altitude (and I have), I may pull the gear up at 50 AGL because all the ROC I can get won't be much.

As soon as it is no longer possible to put it back down on the runway.

I cannot begin to over emphasize that the purchase price has little to do with ownership costs. You would easily have similar expenses on a 61' B as you would 74' F. Get the better plane and plan on similar costs. The mere notion of doubling your money buying an AC is possible, but more unlikely than not.

That's Awesome!!! You should plan for first solo on her 16th (in Canada?) birthday!!

Hey Dave...My readings have never been right and 3 different shops let it slide year after year, dismissing it as a metering issue and not a transducer issue. For the life of me, I could begin to guess why the change from climb to level. Eventually, I put in a new transucer and sent the meter out to be fixed......for considerable expense.

Quote: Shadrach My favorite at FDK is: "Frederick Flight Center - Cessna12DB - Radio check" "Frederick traffic - Cessna12DB is taxiing to the active runway 23 from the flight center - Frederick..." "Frederick traffic - Cessna12DB is taking the active 23 we"ll be closed traffic for touch and gos - Frederick..." "Frederick traffic - Cessna12DB is over the quarry turning crosswind 23- Frederick..." "Frederick traffic - Cessna12DB is turning left downwind 23 - Frederick..." "Frederick traffic - Cessna12DB is abeam the numbers left downwind for 23- Frederick..." "Frederick traffic - Cessna12DB is turning left base T&G 23- Frederick..." "Frederick traffic - Cessna12DB is 3 mile final 23 T&G - Frederick..." "Frederick traffic - Cessna12DB is short final 23 T&G- Frederick..." "Frederick traffic - Cessna12DB is on the roll 23 Frederick..." and over and over ad nauseam...

Quote: fantom ....and I know none of us here use the dumb "any traffic in the pattern, please advise", rather than listening up and looking outside.

Quote: allsmiles Seems to me before you rush to report the poor guy you should examine your own decision making first. Why didn't you see the TBM and initiate a go around? Weren't you looking? Assuming he made an honest mistake with the frequency, which is easy to do by the way many of these CTAF are only one digit off, did you do everything correctly that you want to crucify the guy! No one was hurt, no airplanes were bent and apparently he apologised to you! Leave him alone! We all bear responsibility and should examine our own actions!