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1 hour ago, carusoam said:

@201er is going to work on the timing aspect…  More than a day of warning this time.  

May is going to be a great month for a Mooney Fly-in…

 

Everybody should get out to a Mooney fly-in, no matter what part of the Mooney world you are in!

Bring a spouse, a kid, or a friend… or all three!

 

The clouds dried up right after lunch time…

 

Go MooneySpace!

Best regards,

-a-

Can I still get a framable signed picture?

A bit more warning - and I would definitely want to come!!!

I am really hoping some day to have a framable signature from the Dean of Mooneyspace.

4 hours ago, Pinecone said:

I would love to join, but very short notice.  
 

and I am in the middle of the Atlantic

Sat Phone?

Where did you go Anthony?

Someone at my University is studying a fish called the Mooneye that seems to be native to our local waters.  Never heard of it!  But I have done some fly fishing around here...

https://announcements.clarkson.edu/2024/04/12/clarkson-university-researchers-ask-public-to-report-mooneye-fish-catches/

On 3/24/2024 at 10:41 AM, EricJ said:

I thought this was an auction for oxygen equipment and was wondering why it was so expensive.

 

Maybe it comes with Oxygen?

On 2/12/2024 at 9:31 PM, Ive said:

Hello Mooney People!

I am brand new here so I apologize in advance if I put this topic in the wrong place. 

The thing is. I am trying to find a perfect XC aircraft for myself and Mooney is really what I like. However, I am pretty tall - 6'6'' and I've never had a chance to actually sit in the cockpit. So the net - net is - I am looking for someone kind enough with the Mooney in NJ or Tri-State asking for a favor of trying to fit-in the cockpit. Is there a chance someone could help me out with that? Any advice is appreciated!

I am 6'4'' 222 - I chose Mooney in part for the excellent leg room.  By the way - I had a shop make an extra hole for me in the seat rails of the pilot seat so my seat goes back a little further.

On 2/4/2024 at 12:28 PM, Patrick Horan said:

I am having this issue on my FIKI bravo. Fluid is coming out of the wing. But it is still flashing. When I am home, I will run the pump for 10 mins

I see you are in Arizona - I believe its the fluid is too thin at warmer temps.  When I run it on the ground in the summer- I get low pressure flashing.  So if I want to exercise the system in the summer I only do so in the air at a sufficiently high altitude that its quite cool.  In the winter you can run it on the ground if its like near freezing.  So in the summer Im running it at least every month just to keep it in good shape, and in the winter Im running it on the ground while taxiing to fly to pre prime the system in case I might run into ice while punching through a layer.

8 minutes ago, PeteMc said:

Did you try filling out the Online Form? 

https://www.mooneysafety.com/ppp-registration/

 

Thanks - I didnt know about the website.

On 12/23/2023 at 10:08 AM, Stetson20 said:

Copied from Ralph Semb, Mooney MAPA Director, email:

POC is Lela Hughes:  lelahughes@gmail.com

Lela Cell:  210-289-6939

Ocala,  Jan 26 & 27
Santa Maria CA  April 5 & 6
Owensboro KY  June 21 & 22
Burlington, VT Sept 6 & 7
Ft. Worth, TX  Oct 18 & 19

 

I tried that email and got a bounce message.

I've always figured my airplane is really a dumb investment and its essentially a complete loss for all the money I put into it.  I keep fixing it up and it looks shiny, beautiful inside and out, great paint, great upholstery and great panel.  Cool prop.  TKS, rocket.  Its cool! And I always figured damned Im one dumb so of a &*^% for spending all that money on it if I think its an investment.  But I like having nice things and its really really nice!  When I need to overhaul my engine - soon - that will be another pile of money that I wont recoup when I spend it - I mean a lot of money.  My airplane is in such tip top shape it probably already is at the max of what a rocket will go for even with a high hour engine.  But I will spend the money to overhaul it anyway because its my long time keeper.  And if I got in the mood to do a diesel if one were available - meh - I would do that too - but not because I think its an investment.  PS - there's other money I actually invest - but my airplane is my mooney money hole.

2 hours ago, A64Pilot said:

In the past Diesel’s have always been heavier, due in part to the compression and in part to the rather erratic timing, erratic because a cold Diesel actually Diesels, but once warm and at operating speed there is enough heat in the cylinder so that the fuel begins it’s burn the moment it is injected.

But with the magic that common rail is erratic timing can be handled and is why the NVH of modern Diesels is close to spark ignition engines.

I don’t really understand the push for Diesels myself, I guess it’s because the fuel is already at airports? I would think that design and manufacturing of a modern spark ignition motor that could run on Auto fuel would be easier and lighter, for example look at what’s being done with Outboard engines.

Bigger than we need, but 600 HP on 87 Octane, I only link this to show that you can make big power on Autofuel, just need modern combustion chamber which mean four valve heads and that means liquid cooling, or that’s what it took to put four valves in motorcycles, they couldn’t do it without liquid cooling.

Boat motors differ greatly from automobiles, because often a boat is run nearly at or at full throttle for extended times like an airplane, but that’s almost never the case for Auto’s.

https://www.mercurymarine.com/us/en/engines/outboard/verado/verado-600hp

As far as I am concerned - the big market for diesel and the big reason for diesel is one thing you just said - its already at the airports as JetA - and I mean on the world market in many parts of the world where there maybe jetA but no avgas.  So not so much for the North America market.  Or for me.

I have not made measurements - but my impression is that deploying speed brakes after touch down does just about zero.  So why bother and complicated the landing roll out.  Retracting flaps to put weight on the wheels does do a lot though.

No!  We are still at $6.75/gal for like a year and a half now.  :-(

Are you using a built in bottle or a removable bottle in the back seat?

I use a removable bottle in the back seat so I put my o2d2 on the ceiling attached to the cabin light screw strapped in with a velcro strap.  Its a nice place for it because its always at hand ready to go and it keeps the tubes nicely untangled.  The tubes go up from the back seat bottle, then down to our heads in the front.  No fuss.

24 minutes ago, Schllc said:

Millions of tiny nuclear batteries made in china, floating around….

what could go wrong?

Well - even worse - they are being pushed as for medical devices.  So think of eating (implanting) a tiny chinese nuclear battery.  Ill wait a few years and wait to see how it goes for everyone else first....

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/chinese-company-creates-nuclear-battery/

3 minutes ago, Skates97 said:

Silly me seeing unread posts in this thread and thinking there would be some sort of insurance discussion... Perhaps there should be a different thread to debate EV's. 

Now you are being just silly Skates97.  And sort of picky.

By the way did anyone notice a technology announcement of sorts in avweb yesterday of a chineese company that has claimed to have produced a nuclear battery that is in some sense all things good - it emits no notable radiation externally, its decay products are eventually normal copper, and the current product is very small only suitable for medical device implants - they run for 50 years in that setting, and they claim upscaling it slightly it would keep a drone aloft for years.  I am not confirming or denying how much this is vaporware but a fun article on topic with the hidden actual EV message of this not about insurance thread.

Wonderful!  I might likely go to my first one!!!!  Burlington is so close - how can I refuse - normally they are at a very inconvenient time being at the beginning of my semesters but Burlington is super close so I bet I can pull it off.

36 minutes ago, TrexA380 said:

Hey all,

I am a new Mooney Owner.  1985 M20J.  Went Flying Yesterday up here in the Cold Frigid Mid West on a nice sunny clear day OAT -12c.

Flaps worked fine with the No issue on the first leg, then on  the leg back home, after landing and clearing the runway they would not retract from Full Flaps. 

I Pulled the plane into the heated hanger and after a few hours... the Flaps worked fine, No issue what so ever.

Things to note or worth mentioning, There was no moisture or contaminates that where taxied over or flown thru that could have frozen.

The motor could not be heard running at all when attempted to retract.  The CB was in, but tried to cycle it anyways.

I have flown and owned other planes in the past and not had any issues with flap motors in extreme Cold temps... 

What is other owner operator experiences here with the M20J in cold weather?  Any other Cold WX tips specific to type!

Thanks in advance. 

TRex

1985 M20J

-12C is cold but not crazy cold - I have flown many many times at that and colder temps.  I use -20C as my dont fly temp limit most because its too cold for the poor pilot (me) to be nuisancing with prepping the plane but also for considerations of what it would be like an off field landing exposure considerations - knock on wood.

Anyway - I wonder if your flaps issue is unrelated to the cold.

3 hours ago, xcrmckenna said:

Wouldn’t touch Old Republic with a 10’ pole after having to deal with them when my 201 was totaled.


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On 1/10/2024 at 2:32 PM, LANCECASPER said:

The width of the G5 looks considerably bigger than the GI-275, but if the width of a square instrument and the width of a round instrument were exactly the same, there would be about 21.5% less area with which to work on the round one.  (π/4) = 0.785398    (  @aviatoreb will confirm or correct this  )

Actually the display part of the G5 looks more rectangular. It would be interesting to know exactly what the dimensions of the display are.

The G5 and GI-275 each have their own advantages. The G3X and the TXi have their own. Some of the reasons why deciding what to put in the panel is challenging.

 

Did you just tell me how to put a square peg in a round hole?

Speed brakes are an invaluable tool when I am high like in the teens and atc is holding me high much longer than I would like then starts giving me descents that would otherwise put me too fast - its a great way for extended high fpm descent.

I used to worry about preheating my airplane when I was relying on spinning gyro instruments.  Now that I am (almost) entirely electric-AHARS devices - I am not so worried about starting the panel from cold.  I do still have one backup electric spinning gyro attitude indicator and when it starts to die - I will replace it too with something ahars.  So I dont preheat my cabin anymore - I dont fly below 0F so no starts anyway at the coldest we can get around here - -20 or -30f - (engine is preheated!!!) and its fine.  The pilot can wait for the cabin to warm up as far as comfort is involved.

46 minutes ago, Ragsf15e said:

I agree statistics and testing are a powerful tool, but I’m just finishing my masters in economics, and the last class I had on econometrics was disheartening.  There are so many pitfalls, methods, tests, choices, and grey areas that it seems like two things happen… either the researcher can make the end result say what they like (to a certain extent) or someone with less experience will just muff a very complicated situation and draw the wrong conclusions.  Omitted variable bias and selection bias are easy ones to understand and see how they screw up everything.  In the end, I feel like it’s the experience and impartiality of the researchers as much as the data they have.

I am a math professor - not a statistician - but I am quite experienced in statistics and probability.  Any statistics has some kind of assumption underlying what was the distributions of the random variables from which the data was sampled.  Rarely are those idealized assumptions perfectly true for real world data - but maybe mostly true?  And there are sometimes statistical tests for those assumptions.  Often all that is glossed over and full speed ahead damned the torpedos and use the stats anyway.  With lots of charts and graphs showing outcomes of plugging numbers, the raw data, into what is often inappropriately chosen statistics.  And when shown to an unsuspecting consumer, whether company executives, or public, this is where Mr Twain does have a point.

11 hours ago, Schllc said:

“There are lies, dam lies, and statistics.”

Mark Twain

It's a fun quote.  But Mark Twain was a writer and didn't know a damn thing about statistics.  In the hands a of a good data analyst, mathematician, statistician, statistics are an excellent and necessary part of empirically analyzing large complex issues.  But since there are complicated issues, mediocre practitioners can really muck it up and yes charlatans can lie with statistics which means deliberately obfuscate truth in a shrowd of what seems like knowledge.