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    I’ve come to believe the only way to compete is to add a chute. But this would require a wing and gear redesign/beef up for increased load and to keep under the single engine stall speed certification limits. That’s expensive. Us “real pilots” like to er downplay the importance of the chute, but they do sell airplanes and deal with spouse objections. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Let’s also not forget that cars can’t travel long distances direct. Probably subtract 30% for the meandering of roads on a typical trip. Here is an ovation definitely traveling a line a car can’t, while going 230mph or so... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    False comparison. What would a f 150 get at that speed? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    And yet I’ve seen more than one shop where the fixed price annual is the same Mooney vs Cirrus. And I’ve seen many insurance quotes where the Cirrus cost more per dollar hull than the Mooney. So go figure. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    I’d love to choose Avedyne. I’d love the KI300 to be viable to kick this whole can down the path a few years. But at some point the Garmin solution is just really good and I’m not a big fan of the Aspen form factor... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    With every passing day and stuff like this I become more and more likely to rip out the king and retrofit everything including a glass panel and autopilot to Garmin... sigh Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Well that’s the opposite extreme. But asking what do you need, then giving it to you is a bit sketchy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    And seeing as the weather as well as all atc transmissions are recorded, it never ceases to amaze me that tower controllers are so obvious pulling that stuff... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Doubt it, they always required approved weather observers or official weather... read up on the People’s Express exemption. You can’t even dispatch to a place below mins without a bunch of rules/alternates. The people’s express exemption dealt with the fact that they couldn’t like the majors afford certified weather observers everywhere... https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/1321/can-someone-explain-exemption-3585 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    I get notifications via Tapatalk and am drowning in extraneous Mooney space email notifications but the site won’t let me change that setting. Help?
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    I didn’t think I needed to stipulate USA Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Only part 91 can START the approach and proceed past the FAF if wx below mins. Part 91 can always “go take a look”. Commercial carriers can’t. After that if you see the runway you land, flight visibility is controlling.... Commercial flights have to discontinue if they lose the mins prior to the FAF, after that we can proceed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    It’s not size of plane we are referring to, it’s the rules each flight was operating under. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Can’t start an approach without minimums (visibility) under part 135 or 121. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Just need visibility. And only if not part 91. Then you don’t need anything... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    I’d be more likely to compare an M20R against an A36 than a J model.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    I like it up top. That’s where my airliner has it... and my Mooney is my personal airliner.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    The real issue here is you can’t choose a plane very well before you’re a pilot. You may think you’ve figured out your mission or how you’ll use the plane or what limits or characteristics matter to you. But you have no clue. You don’t know what you don’t know. This combined with the fact that training is for wear and tear reasons best done in someone else’s plane, and a good trainer is seldom the best forever plane, it’s best to rent until everyone has passed some checkrides imho. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Works for me Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Lot cheaper than turning an airworthy one into a bar... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Nope, came on a flatbed wings off Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    We don’t pad times, we appropriately set expectations... Atc and weather are legit considerations! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Actually I leave my beacon on and never touch the Nav light switch (in my personal airplane) unless necessary, because they do nothing in daylight except burn out. I said I was surprised they approved it that way. Airplanes are certified with rules to make them reasonably consistent, intuitive, safe and easy to fly. This introduces an odd and really unnecessary quirk to that airframe. That said, it *was* approved and that approval should be respected. But if it were my airplane I’d personally run the wiring if possible for the light separate from the transponder. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Because it isn’t intuitive that your transponder is tied to a lighting switch.... or that you’d have to pull that breaker, or that it’s not on the avionics master and so on... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    I’m a little surprised they allowed the stc approved way frankly, if that’s how it’s designed... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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