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I don't think that is what is meant by the phrase "sustained winds" when referring to a hurricane. I think 185mph sustained (which is the number I just heard quoted for this storm), is as opposed to a gust peak number. Like when you see at your home airport 23G28 then that 28 is the peak of a gust speed. Hurricanes are only their strongest near the eye wall. SO I would presume over a few hours as the wall is bearing down toward you that gradually the sustained wind speed would grow and grow.

Category 5 - wow - some reports are saying 185mph sustained winds. Think about it - that is just shy of 160knots. A well rigged M20J in full cruise - if you put your hand out the window - that is what it would feel like in a 185mph hurricane.

African or European Swallow? And I need to know if it is during an eclipse or not.

You didn't ask before. 60/5=12. But thats a tad high because it should be 60 min/5:22, so say what, 11.5? So 10 * 22mi is 220 mi. So lets call it 220+22+a bit more for that 0.5 or call it 250....250 is the answer if you want an answer in a few seconds from my head. Ok the real answer not in my head but on a calculator from here on my laptop, before I finish this cup of coffee and go to work: 5:22 is 322 seconds (still in my head). 60 min is 3600 seconds (still in my head). 3600/322 * 22mi=245.9627 mph (that one on my calculator)...probably knots because you probably meant nautical miles. But that much precision is probably beyond the accuracy of the measurement of distance and time, so lets call it 246. Even faster than the first thing I did for approximate arithmetic - just call 5:22 to be about 5. so 60/5=12 so 22*12=264, so you know you are not quite 264 but that was an even rougher estimate.

Here is what I did in my head in about 5 seconds - takes longer to type it - 22/11=2. 33/3=3. 31 is almost 33. SO 33/22 is almost 1.5, but 31/22 is just a little less. So half of 5:00 is 2:30 and half of 22 is 11 but skip that second part because 31 is smaller than 33. So basically add 2:30 onto 5:22 and take off just a bit. SO 7:52 minutes a bit, say 7:45 was the answer I got in 5 seconds using "approximate arithmetic." Now I did it on my calculator and I see I was a bit high, but not a lot, just a few seconds, and anyway, I would say that the measurement error would account for a bit of error anyway.

African or European Swallow?

A syllabus is the minimum set of things that the syllabus makers think ALL the students should learn for one reason or another, usually either because it is a specific skill they will need, or it is considered pedagogically important since it helps toward the general education set regarding the topic at hand, often as segway to other topics that are considered critical. On that second point, think of waxing cars, wax on, wax off, repeat, and repeat...as the method to teach the karate kid to fight by building the basic elements of the skills deep into his brain. As for calculators in HS, I am not a fan.... The students I get in college are much more reliant on them and much less thinking about the answer than they used to, even for error trapping. What's a million divided by a thousand ... 200...the calculator said so. As for your mom saying that a calculator was a computer, ...the language was still changing I guess. At this point, I bet we all saw the movie "hidden figures" where the ladies with the job description of adding numbers all day were called "calculators". Here is a picture at the bottom of a room of ladies during WWII at los alamos that we all calculators by job description and the room of such people was called a computer. Partial answers on pieces of paper were collected in the center island on a table on wheels that looks like a desert tray, called a "bus"...and that my friends is how the bus on a computer chipset was named. As for a good education, vs a minimum education of a syllabus, a wise professor once said (and I have heard it repeated many times, from different places so I wonder who actually said it because it has been repeated alot), never let your classroom experience get in the way of becoming educated.

Yikes! You got run over by an aircraft carrier?!! I bet that's quite a story.

Cool! I didn't know! Celestial nav always makes me think of the greatest fear of celestial nav that I know of... the escape from the 1912 Antarctica Endurance ship wreck in Antarctica. Three guys managed to sail a dingy 600 miles in high seas to elephant island a whaling colony. In high seas and a small boat one guy would have to hold the other guy steady against the mast while trying to sight stars over the lips of large swells. ... when it happened to be clear enough. And somehow they found it! i just recently saw a BBC documentary where in WWII an old British army vet was describing how they would cross the Saharan in conveys at night by celestial nav.

No kidding - I had no idea that star navigation was still taught when you - we - were at usna? Who was teaching that? What department? I can operate a slide ruler! And an abicus. Nah I was neither challenged nor did I enjoy learning e6b. Nor in electronic form. A bunch of that stuff I sidestepped by using a scientific calculator. i would think to some degree learning some old school stuff makes pilots to be think more deeply about the concepts of fuel, winds aloft, etc... so they build a bit of intuition as to how it all effects flight so it's in your gut so to speak. we still teach a lot of technical computations to budding engineers even though they might think that heck why do I need how to do a trig substation integration if "I'll never do that in my career" and sure mathematica or maple can do symbolic calculus on the computer. ok / why did I need to learn and demonstrate eights on pylons for my commercial even though I would never do that for real . Cuz it builds a certain kind of aerodynamic maneuvering skills into my intuitive gut. I learned loran for my ppl written knowing it was absurd because it was already scheduled to be decommissioned. There was a time not to long ago when every college educated person was expected to know Latin. No matter what major. when I started my phd it was expected we - even a math phd - could read and translate technical papers in two of a menu of several languages that included French, German, Russian, and a few more. (The languages of the other math power houses). I already spoke French fluently so I planned to take Russian (my gma spoke Russian as she was a young teenager when she emigrated during wwi). But the requirement for two languages was lowered to one during my first year and I was plenty busy and never got around to it. Shortly after I graduated the requirement for even a second language was dropped - and sure enough English seems quite sufficient for doing science internationally / all the journals and most conferences. In the last year I have been to Denmark, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, England, and all the conferences were in English. as more new stuff must be learned some old stuff must be retired. I was just chair of my schools differentisl equations re-evaluation committee - something that happens to all the big courses periodically for a good reason. What is modern and currently relevant evolves over time. A 15 week semester is at most...15 weeks...and the average college kids brain can only absorb information so fast / not to mention professors can only talk so fast. So if you want to add something new you need to look if you will drop something else or perhaps demphasize it / i.e. The negotiations involve perhaps Some topic might be going from say 3 full lecture periods to 2 or 2.5. And correspondingly how involved are the problem sets. There is a lot of compromise then between the client departments - Chem, ee, mech e, physics, etc saying don't cut my favorite topic but please add this new thing. i would think the Faa is going through the same pedogogy in keeping their syllabus modern.

turbo-fan - then dollars approaches infinity too. Nah, 4 is as high as I'll ever go.

...its a pain. But it was a pain before. Roughly a similar pain with 4 as it was with 3.

We need to close down this thread. It gives me the heeby- geebies.

Ok...ok I'll let on but don't think I'm silly ... promise. I can't remember exactly but I think STC and prop started at something like 17 or 18 with new prop governor too? But it was a bit more because I had to custom pay for a 337 field approval that they handled for me. Then I opted for the upcharge for the nickel treatment - which I think is very worthwhile to protect the investment. So all in...it was 21-22ish?

Thanks! And you know what they say, "its better to look good than to feel good ... and you look marvelous!" Rockets have 3 blades because you need a lot of blade surface area to suck up 305hp, and 2 blades therefore would be too long. Even the 3 blade is very long and you have a good bit less ground clearance than a standard M20k 2 blade. The 4 blade you get back the original m20k tsio360 ground clearacne and a tad bit more I think.

Yes I know how much....- but I am embarrassed to say. :-O You know what they say, "if you gotta ask...." Cost is the big downside. Sound, cg, cruise speed, climb, road feel, looks, ground clearance, durability, sound, and a few more things, all better. Cost not so much.

I think they are supposed to have improved their paint process. But separately the nickel leading edge is a much deeper sheath and substantial than the original stainless steel edge. As for performance, while 4 is going to be slower than 3, all things being equal, I don't think my install slowed me down but sped me up "slightly". Why? My guess - The old mcauley 3 blade it replaced was an old school design aerodynamically competing against this modern scimtar shaped 4 blade. ALSO, not to be understated is the change of cg was significant rearward, as 35lbs came off the nose. It changes a nose heavy airplane to a more centered cg airplane - which also makes for nice benefits in the "road feel" when hand flying, it feels a lot lighter. And for sure climb improved a bit too.

You know, in the limit, as n->infinity, an n-blade propellor limits to a solid circle. How well do you think my airplane will climb with a solid circle on the nose?

Simple - it breathes better. You are less likely to get a sweaty back and get sticky to the leather.

You bet! If you got four blades, the gotta flaunt it. :-) There are two more things I want to do before I call this airplane update complete. The airframe will be complete of course. I still want electronic ignition but what I want does not exist yet. I like emags - so eventually I think they will certify and I will get that! Plus - I have been waiting for several years holding off on an aspen or G500 anticipating that eventually the experimental stuff would come. I was saying for years I want G3x or dynon skyview - It is almost here! I will likely do some kind of avionics upgrade, digital autopilot and some kind of electronic flight display. I bet within 9 months I will get to choose, as will we all. Darn I want airbag seatbelts....but those guys seem uninterested in selling me their stuff - no stc.

Thanks! Yeah I had the idea already but then I was in Bennett's car in San Fransisco talking about how I wish I could make the seats longer...and his car is a BMW, and voila he extended the seats and I loooooved it. So then the idea was cemented. Thank you Bennett! Oh my gosh - I can't wait to see the paint job too!!! Its late... not the shops fault but there is construction going on at the airfield right in front of the paint hangar right now. Argh! I have seem sample pictures in progress, and I have a sample plate they sent of the paint I chose...and ... I can't wait! I'll post pictures as soon as I get it back! Hopefully within 2 weeks?

Thanks! I don't know much about the foam. I remember discussing foam with them about a year ago, and they described a recipe of multiple foam densities in various parts, leaning a bit toward firm according to my taste, but I forget the details. I am a bit the opposite of a DIY'er I guess. Have credit card, will travel.

Phew! I'm a mathematician.

Hey, sure, I will dig up the cost, but I forgot what it was! I have it somewhere in receipts - its in 3 separate sets of receipts since having it done in Wilmar during tank reseal, some of the cost was paid to Bruce, but then Bruce left for his winter-snowbird activities in Florida so the weepnomore guys handled some of the install, so some of it is on their bills for install costs, even though Bruce did most of it, and then I paid SCS directly for their work on the seats, plus the rugs. I can't remember but it was inline and very reasonable compared to other complete interior jobs I have seen quoted. Certainly not more, and relatively less, by maybe a little bit? I don't know. I will pm you when I look it up, but I am feeling it is not right to publish such things publicly since I feel its the right of each of these businesses to set their own current prices. -I really wanted Bruce's system because I am very tall, 6'4'' and long limbed at that, so as advertised I can confirm that his system does open up the space a little bit and I really do notice it. -The seats I had several upcharge adjustments made that I am very happy I did. Most notably I had the base lengthened with a longer piece of foam, and this then lets my legs be supported along more of my longer femur, since otherwise I used to feel like i was perched on the end of tiny little cushion using my legs to keep myself from falling forward. This really leaves me a bit more relaxed actually just sitting on the seat with no muscle power needed. This was my idea - and I asked them "if they could do such a thing". I HIGHLY recommend to tall people - 2.5'' makes a world of difference. -I also did upcharge for perforated leather, which they don't specifically tell you they offer, but when asked, no problem. -In these pictures, you see my old yokes, but they are leather covered now. -My airplane is still in paint, so I will post that "soon".

I had Bruce do my interior with "Bruce's Spatial Interior" when my plane was at Wilmar for weepnomore tank seal last year. I really really like it. I also had the nearby leather shop do the furniture and it turned out fantastic. They are SCS in Duluth, and Bruce already has a good relationship with them, and they have good experience with Mooney. SCS also does a lot of custom OEM work for Cirrus since they are in Duluth. Also they did my rugs.