Becca

Quote: Shadrach Just landed in St Simons Island GA this afternoon. KFDK to KSSI, 533nm in 3:20, under 40 gals burned. Perfect day!

Quote: N4352H This is because they are all busy right now Becca, playing hackee-sack, smoking clove cigarettes, trading 9-11 conspiracy theories, passing out hemp fliers, demosntrating and defocating on the streets of our large metroplotan centers.

Quote: Shadrach True, but there's more to the story. The truth is that it created a market for bad loans (bundled mortgage securities) because they seemed to be performing. As it turned out, these folks were robbing their HELOCs to pay their mortgages. When the Ponzi-esque behavior reached the end, the mortgage security market came to a halt and any institution with mortgages on it's books could no longer sell them. This led to banks not meeting their cash reserves required by the Fed, it also led to insolvency, which led to Fed bank takeovers, which led to runs on banks, which led to a complete and first class CF...

Quote: triple8s WOW, I thought this was site was for the promtion of the sport of flying and specifically about MOONEY aircraft. Guess Communist/Liberal propaganda always finds a way to get in no matter where you seek refuge.

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Any thoughts on socializing a puppy to an airplane since we've reopened this subject? Our old dog Apache was afraid of vacuum cleaners, so I never brought her around the Mooney. I am worried I might do something wrong to make our new puppy afraid of planes. We just adopted a golden retreiver mutt, and I want to get her adjusted to the plane ASAP... she's 11 weeks old right now. My first though was to bring her out when I want to wash the plane this weekend just so she can used to airport noise. In terms of keeping the plane apholstry safe, based on an old thread posted here, I planned on using this hammock style cover for the backseat: http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4097854 While we're on the subject, Jetdriven and I are taking advice on dog names. Our current list: Pancho, Starbuck, Laika, Muttnik, Bernoulli, Starbuck, Petra, Spoiler, Flap, and Lucy...

Quote: fantom The investment required to race a Mooney could be donated to those poor souls also.

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Quote: Parker_Woodruff In my factually correct opinion, LOP.

Quote: HartParr Why does military funding come from discretionary funds yet welfare is an entitlement? Seems kinda backwards in a world where people are sworn to kill all 'heathens' and America's 'poor' live in relative luxury.

Quote: smccray WOW indeed...

Quote: scottfromiowa You know what I think is sickening about it.. besides that this is a Mooney forum not a political debate... I find it sickening that 52% of the people in this country make so little money that it is unconsionable to tax them because that would place a terrible burden on their ability to provide for their families basic needs in order to pay the tax bill. This article describes the problem: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-do-half-of-all-americans-pay-no-federal-income-taxes/2011/07/11/gIQA8olBuI_blog.html I'd think it would be worth a moment to reflect upon the economic privledge that you have that allows you to have enough money to own and fly a Mooney, and think about the person who sweeps your office floor and his wife who bags groceries, neither of whom have health insurance, and who have two kids and a household income of less than $26k, the very definition of the working poor, and ask yourself if you'd increase the tax burden on them so you have less of a sales tax burden on your aircraft? Or if any such sales tax reduction would create jobs in a meaningful amount or increase the lifestyle of the working poor in any way. We all bought planes and "created" jobs in aircraft manufacturing even with sales taxes and income tax acting against us. People also bought aircraft in the 1970s when marginal tax rates were higher. Yes, excessive tax is stiffling to economic development, but no where in our tax code is excessive tax currently existing or being proposed, were talking about small percentage marginal tax rate increases and closing corporate loopholes here.

Quote: Parker_Woodruff Weather and ATC are paid for with fuel taxes. They are also paid for again on April 15, assuming the individual is paying taxes. It is not "free"

Quote: maropers Amen and Amen

Quote: rbridges you're wrong. last I heard, 52% of people paid zero or received a tax credit. Sickening.

Quote: GeorgePerry Enclosed is what the MAPA pilot proficiency program has to say about fuel missmanagment. I submit those who think letting a tank run dry are the future 7 percenters...

Is there a limitation to just naming your new instructor on your insurance, that way he won't have to meet open pilot requirements? That will actually give him more protection, and probably shouldn't effect your rate.

Quote: jetdriven let's define "right of way" per the regs, not per someone's feelings. Lets hear it

Quote: carusoam Becca, How are you adjusting your W&B this time? I remember last time you had carried some extra ballast distributed from the hat shelf forwards. Good luck. Best regards, -a-

Quote: 140pilot Deja vu! Hmmmm.......

I am going to attempt another SARL Air Race - this time in Cleveland, TX: http://clevelandairracerevival.blogspot.com/ Any other Mooney drivers coming out? It would be nice to have a little competition in the FAC3RG class. My lessons learned from last time: WOT, don't even bother trying to lean the mixture - fuel rich is required for cooling, have the course programmed in both GPS units, plan on full nose down trim, don't do the race alone (I've already recruited our partner to navigate for me this time).

Quote: peott If anyone is interested, the insurance guy was just here and they will take care of reskinning the wing. Some people believe it would be better to annual the plane and sell it rather than parting it out. The insurance adjuster just told me that in his experience, older planes bring more money by parting them out than selling them whole. He has been in the business a long time and knows the value of planes and plane parts. He indicated that getting parts for Mooney's is starting to be an ordeal with very long lead times. If anyone knows of a right elevator for sale for a '68 M20F, let me know. I get that fixed no matter what I do with the plane. For those of you that think it would sell for a lot more than parting it out, give me $55000 for it, just as it sits (with the elevator fixed) and turn around and re-sell it and make the profit you think you can make. It is all easier said than done. Once the engine is sold, I can take off all the parts I think will sell and store them in a shed. Cut up the fuselage, empanage and wings and sell that scrap aluminum and be ready to sell Mooney parts. If the factory goes completely under, those old parts that I have will be worth their weight in gold.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry about this (post-feminist?) video. But watching her do 60 spins was pretty cool: