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I have also flown with Seth in that Missile. This is the one you want!

No it’s Uber eats extra fast delivery.

WOW! What an interesting airplane! Of course Al Mooney had a hand in such an interesting design. I bet it was fantastic. Maybe that is the long fabled Mooney twin that shoulda been.

That is so cool!

Well… if you are ever in upstate New York again / then my turn I’ll take you on a flight around the eiger of the Adirondacks / white face mountain site of the 1980 Olympics downhill. Come!

I have one of those in my pilot side stuff pouch. I like the arm rear mounting

I’ve had the pleasure to fly around Switzerland and a bit of France and Germany in that airplane with Charlie - thank you - and I’ve hosted that airplane in my hangar on his transatlantic flight to Oshkosh. That is one fantastic Bravo. I’m very sorry to hear you are hanging up your wings awful but I’m sure there’s other fantastic things ahead.

How long did it take them to train pilots from zero experience to combat theater in a P51 in WWII? That is such an interesting airplane. If I were just a little more nutty - I would get one!

Good points. I for one dont fly night or LIFR.

conditioned on mission type I would guess it is comparable to the others. So its the pilot's fault, or the mission choice fault is my guess but not the airplane's fault.

Touche'. I am definitely not used to that usage but I know it now that I think about it. I know one, lie down as in going to sleep, and the other is a deliberate malicious false assertion for sake of deceit. Which is how I hear it mis-used a lot late.

Really - lie? I think the word has been misused alot lately to the point it has lost meaning in a lot of circles. lie - to make an untrue statement with the intent to deceive. Is there someone who is trying to trick us? Or is it for horizontal reclining? In any case the roll cage concept and a higher than average fatality per hour are not incompatible. The first is about if there is a crash bring the roll cage, seat belts etc. but if on average these machines are used in a more dangerous environment, night ifr, etc than an otherwise less safe to crash in machine - I claim the deaths per hour can … lie to you. Better to say be misunderstood.

I owned a da40 without an autopilot - from 2007-2010. Great hand flying machine very fun plane. But one thing I wanted in a new to me plane is an autopilot.

That sounds like fun. Well not Lubbock. I honestly never anticipated how much fun a father-son machine the airplane would be. One of my jokes with my son the fisherman - he grew up fly fishing around here - tying flies, going fishing like every day in the summer, etc. He would look up some interesting river on a map and we would go fly there and fish - New Brunswick, Maine, UP Michigan etc. We called it fly fishing. I fly. He fishes. Complimentary hobbies and together time

I had the same problem - but I procrastinated so long in doing something about it - we grew out of the problem. When I got into flying in 2007 and the Mooney in 2010 our 3 boys were young - do the arithmetic but today they are 21, 24, and 26. So I kept thinking about yeah, a Seneca or something like that. But whenever we traveled as a whole family it took the minivan and then some - a big box on top full of junk (toys) bike racks on the back etc. I was like heck - to pack that much stuff in an airplane I would need a Pilatus. Which I couldn't afford. But I kept browsing Controller and thinking well maybe a Seneca for the sorter less heavy trips. Meanwhile I ended up doing a lot of trips with my boys - one on one trips to their own individual interests. One loved fishing. One lived history aka civil war sites. One love aeronautical engineering so well obviously we went to airplane stuff. And all three have been pursuing careers in those areas. The mooney was a great dad and individual son time machine as it turned out and when we needed to all go as a family, I sucked it up and we drove. I kept thinking about something bigger, and then what do you know - next thing the kids started going to college and the Mooney became a fantastic pick-em up for a weekend break machine. Move in day at the beginning or end of the year - always by minivan but come home for the weekend, always Mooney. Now they are all really more grown and we visit them, my wife and I ... in a perfect fast machine built for two old folk like us....well not THAT old but our twenty somethings think we are old. So procrastinating ended up being a strategy.

I’m sad your missile is moving on. Seneca is a bit boring and a bit blah to fly but heck it’s an airplane so it’s awesome. Reasonable cost good seating and great carrying load. Fits your load and space requirement and can be fiki. seneca

I think you are right. Nonetheless I gotta think swapping wings is an expensive certification nightmare these days.

The fact that Mooney was able to alter their wing to a twisted wing in 1967, suggests to me that the whole certification process was just simpler that then. It would just be crazy expensive impossible to even think of such a thing back then.

Let’s 3D print a whole airplane.

I think from these posts some of the people are missing the point of the wing tips. - yes the don’t make you go any faster. They are not for going fast. - they are for making you go slower. The improve slow speed Aileron authority/control.

I wonder why I forgot about them. Gann uses the raam cam in their performance build which is what I would get if I went with them. powermaster uses superior cam as default which is very similar to the raam cam but I think he would use the raam cam if I were interested. Which I am interested in one of these better cams. Surely Raam uses the raam cam. I am mostly looking for a performance boutique build. Victor though is likely not on my shopping list since they seem to be significantly more expensive than even the other more expensive boutiques.

I wonder if running 2 or 3 hundred hours on avgas before unleaded becomes widely available would be any kind of problem - does running unleaded over time clean out the lead yuk a bit?

So I am shopping engine shops these days since my engine is pretty high time and its about time. Maybe for next winter. I had thought to do it even maybe this winter, but time got away from me. As far as I can tell, a continental shop reman is not so terrific. They use parts from all sorts of engines, and you don't know so much what you get to fly behind and their workmanship history is not so good. But you do get a nice shiny new log book. Vs a boutique shop like Gann, or Powermaster, or Victor (varying prices) so it seems you likely get a better performing and more reliable engine to fly behind, at likely a higher cost? But in the grand scheme of how stupid expensive it is to operate these things... maybe not that much more? So then I think, am I going to spend a lot of money and buy a crappy engine and a nice log book for the next owner, or am I going to buy a quality engine to enjoy for myself. Oh - and I have no plan to sell my airplane any time soon. You can see which way I am leaning.

When I was in Pasadena last summer visiting my son that weekend was 110F. I was… uncomfortable. Yesterday morning here it was -25F and windy so windchill was -50F. I was …. Uncomfortable. I flew yesterday afternoon for 30 min when the wind stopped and ground temps got up to -5F since it’s been two weeks and I hate to let it stand. I ran it at 72% even though I was just noodling around just to keep temps up. I need to get back to the hangar to download data to analyze what temps actually were but darn I was frozen by the last 25 feet of the flight which is the struggle to push it back into the hangar on ice. Took about 40 min for 25 feet. My tug was useless and my block and tackle hand winch was misbehaving in part because my fingers were cold. One nuisance of extreme cold weather is on taxi for take off before flying there isn’t a lot of airflow and the moisture of my breathing freezes to the inside of the windows and can obscure visibility so I have to turn on the cabin vents to keep air moving which is not what you want for comfort in cold weather but you must for visibility. Once I’m flying that’s less of a problem.

There's some mathematical principles underlying the idea that larger samples from a random variable are more and more likely to be close to the mean. First in line for these is Chebyschev's inequality. P(|X-E[x]|>=a) <= Var[X]/a^2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev's_inequality which is a Markov inequality and comes from a really area of analysis called concentration of measure that describes how data looks in high dimensions. Then there's Chernoff's inequality that tells us about the tails (large deviations) of the mean, and Hoeffding's inequality, Bernstein's inequality, and so on. This isn't so esoterica that I would be surprised if the FAA does not have some kind of actuary or someone who keeps tabs on all this mathematical underpinnings to match their full to some alpha small mandated value that the probability of being over weight with n seats filled is exceedingly small at a specified precision.