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Yesterday was really hyped and I was guessing something big would be announced. How underwhelming. My wish-list guesses would have been. -They were really going to go after experimental->normal category conversions with something big like the G3x with digital autopilot. Now for that I would jump in. or maybe -The G5 would be more fully capable, allowing more of the experimental functionality into normal without locking out its best features. So Now with the HSI - a full G5 plus a full G5 HSI at inexpensive prices, and driving the autopilot would be worthwhile too. -Maybe a G6 - like the G5 but showing also synthetic vision. None of the above where I might have whipped out the credit card - so I just watch with passing interest and I'm not buying anything then.

I do frequent one of the airports specifically cited in the AOPA report, and the report was not accurate in my experience. Ithaca, NY, KITH was mentioned. It is a small towered airport. I go frequently since two of my three sons are current Cornell University students. AOPA said they charge $200 ramp fees. My experience is if you buy 10 gallons of gas ramp fees are waived, and the fee for small airplanes anyway is much less than $200, so it must be a number for big airplanes. Fuel is expensive - $5.95, so I usually buy just what I need and not top off, but I am not offended. And they have two crew cars one of which is usually available for me to go fetch my boys from campus.

Is there a way I could make seltzer water in flight?

This is terrible. That's me - Mr Obvious. But it is terrible.

Alors, pas de probleme! Il'ya quelques Americaines qui peux lire le francais, meme a propos de chose aeronautique!

:-) Me too! I bought it for $500 when I was in high school. And .... it even worked! It was one darned ugly ugly car, but darned it worked!

I just read the aviation consumer add - the all in Cirrus G6 is coming at at just NORTH of $900k. So yeah same ball park. But the Mooney is faster, cooler (my eye - and I bet a few others), and some people just don't always want the same thing as everyone else. No I can't buy a new airplane, but yeah I could buy a used Cirrus SR22 just as well as I can buy a used Mooney - and I bought the later.

People look at my "OLD" Mooney for so much money - and anything over 100k sounds like a lotta money to people around here - and i know they are saying, "for that kinda money I could buy 15 Datsun B210's, and old ford F10 pickup, and several snow mobiles, a jet ski, and a bunch of fishing rods..and money left over for 8 pizzas at pizza hut".

Aha - so they added that to your original headrest? I will be talking to Hector again in about 3 weeks because he is redoing my yokes in leather when my airplane goes in for paint. I just had my interior redone by another company, but I wonder if nonetheless he can add those S-curve bits of metal - maybe I will send him my headrests in when I send my yokes. Yeah - for comfort and for whip lash protection - both very good reasons. The importance of those headrests for whiplash may be less important than they are for cars (since one is rarely rear-ended in an airplane) but nonetheless I bet the risk is still and worthwhile to protect against - but if nothing else - comfort.

People like the car engine that comes from the corvair, since it already runs at correct aviation rpms.

Ironically, I bet that car engine will make that corvette car go about as fast as that airplane.

That plan seems kinda slow given how pointy-fast it looks. it looks like a fighter jet but powered like a bonanza. although it is aerobatic capable. it reminds me of one of those kit car conversions where you can make a Volkswagen bug look like say a Ferrari / so it looks great but won't perform like a Ferrari - but maybe looks good is good enough- as riccardo montelban character on snl years ago said, "it's not how you feel - it's how you look... and look marvelous!"

Hyatt that is an especially sharp Mooney! Question - the headrests seem to have a different sort of metal post than mine that allow yours to stand up quite a lot higher - and I wish mine would stand up like that since mine essentially sit low and serve as nothing other than a neck rest but if I actually lean back into them my had would roll back - so they are mostly just cosmetic. I wish mine were like yours.

Oh, sad sight.

My first solo cross country once upon a time as a student pilot was to kbtv in an alarus ch2t if I remember that correctly but anyway it could fly 95 in cruise all out or 90 more co sefvatively. I remember it taking over 2 hours to fly back in strong winds - it takes 25 min in my current airplane.

I love that picture!

49 and 11/12ths

I was once with my Grandma at a restaurant, and she looked every bit her early 90's, and she got carded.

You do need a dog! The only question is which kind?

You fixed my pictures!

I see those low acquisition fees for airplanes like a pressurized twin piston, as sort of like adopting a dog from the pound where they charge you $25 dollars for the dog. Just to make sure you are serious and to keep the riffraff from walking off with all their dogs. Everyone knows full well that dog is going to cost hundreds and hundreds if not thousands a year as she gets old, and needs special foods, thyroid medication, knee surgery, grooming, boarding if you are away for a few days, dog sitters, doggy acupuncture (no kidding my wife once brought once of our dogs to acupuncture), ... and of course she needs a doggy aviation headset. All that for the low low price to get started today of $25!

Another suggestion from my genius wife - try flying with her favorite dog bed for her to sleep in - its like her baby blanket. Plus we received the headset a few days ago and spent a bit of time adapting to it by wearing it and getting treats, at home. So today we went flying together! It went VERY well! She didn't seem bothered and curled up and went to sleep. No big deal! Now I'm shopping for one of those cute doggy co-pilot jackets.

Nice paint!

One thing - the leading edges you see on my prop are the upcharge nickel leading edge and they provide greater abrasion protection than the otherwise standard and very very thin stainless steel leading edge. I read extensively online (across many different kinds of airframes) and many people had abrasion issues of various kinds (esp kicking up gravel) with the stainless steel treatment which was considered too meagerly covering the rest and not one person described such a problem withe nickel treatment you see on mine. Knock on wood - now that said - let's hope that now I wont be that first one.