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That’s the point - burying antenna. On the cheap. Is that all it takes? An ia sign off as minor mod? I bet it’s a knot or two. Not worth it?!!

But people already spend a fortune on a one piece. looking at a subdue panel I just don’t get it / it’s a flat piece of metal. Why not a flat piece of carbon? Sane size drill your own holes?

So why hasn't somebody made a single belly panel that just screws in where my normal belly panels are - like just one of them - not a one piece - but made of something transparent for radio? And heck why not carbon fiber or something light while they are at it? For the purpose of hiding antenna and no other reason, and also to do so without needing to rework the airplane machining in any way to save the majority of the mod labor requirement?

I agree with you. And power screw drivers even more so. The ONLY advantage I can figure of the one piece is to hide antenna - but why cant someone make a small nonmetallic panel shaped as already have to hide antenna. And save 10k in labor to convert. The idea of spending 10k to save a little bit of time and money with the screw driver at annual doesn't add up. As a speed mod - its just the antenna right? And its not a big speed mod bang for the buck.

Its pretty neat! But we dont see it often - maybe once or twice a winter. At most. We aren't far enough north that it is so frequent.

Holi Canoli that is scary and makes my eyes bug out. Let me laugh at you now and remind you of this when you are laughing at me in 6 months when it is -30F and there is aura borealis and a 4ft snow storm forecast.

Cool movie! Thanks!

Seems more like a physics problem - I was describing hard billiards. :-)

Sometimes you bump into a hard cloud and bounce off. Thats a hard cloud sometimes called hard IFR.

I will miss Clarence here. I dont know what happened an I was reading this thread to see what I can see in that regard in-between the story of a tragic accident. Unfortunately its difficult to reconstruct since Clarence has erased his account. we will miss you Clarence but thank you for all the time past that you sent with us and all the best! JoshK, it wasn't a fantastic start and thank you for stopping what initially looked like doubling down. many of us are familiar with each other for having interacted with each other on here for years. So it may seem like an anonymous forum but it is not. Just like walking in to a Lions club in a small town and walking up to one of the most long running and loved members and getting into a fight straight away, the benefit of the doubt goes to our long time friend even if the fight was symmetric. That's natural. I dont know, but I presume it was the straw that broke the camels back phenomenon and you brought that straw is all. It was the initial defense and doubling down that started to congeal a stronger negative reaction. My working behavior here is to try - try right? - to address people just as I would in person. We are mostly sensible and welcoming people here and welcome aboard and love to here about your experiences, your rocket (I have one too) and all the other good stuff we talk about here.

What model airplane and which engine do you have that you are running at 45%? My engine starts being too cool of all things if I start running it for long at below 55%. As it when its a fair bit below 300 I start worrying about enough heat to scavenge the lead in the fuel. Not to mention what's happening with the oil. Especially in the winter. I do spend a good fraction of my time operating at 65%. In my TSIO520NB.

That's exactly what I imagine - and I have said this for several years already - a fleet of Uber-like quadcopter things sitting on top of buildings at their charger stations waiting to swoop down and pick up their customers when on demand. Cooling is a matter of a large enough fleet - if each vehicle needs 10 minutes or 20 minutes of downtime between each 3 or 5 mi runs then that just means the fleet needs to be bigger. Getting the infrastructure all in place - clearly a legal and economic headache - I agree! - to imagine how that all happens but I imagine it could happen. And clearly whether cars and or air vehicles the general over all grid would need to super size. solid state magic batteries. Can't wait! Someday.... I Agee - I know its not around the corner but I will be shocked if it is not eventually practical and cheap and available. Meanwhile a few days ago I read a nice article in no other than my favorite bicycle magazine of a Swiss company playing around with them - and the ceo did say to when will it be marketed - years away. https://velo.outsideonline.com/ebike/stromer-solid-state-battery-e-bike/

I had an engine issue resulting in a dead stick landing at an airport runway thankfully - and since I declared an emergency - there was an FAA phone call afterwards, about a week later. The person was very respectful and even complimentary to good pilotage and decision making, and even more than that, he seemed grateful and happy to be talking to a living pilot. I came away happy that there are actual humans working at the FAA. ANYWAY - well done sir!!!

Dont forget hydro!

What is new is the idea of the piloting - computer controlled - AI controlled air taxis. With that, there is at least the potential for a dramatically different economy of air taxi. I do think there could be a place for 3-5 mile flights by quad-copter like autonomous Uber-vehicles. Then recharge. That's a very narrow mission but one that does not currently exist and the advent of computer controlled pilots - AI pilots making this possibly more available seems very plausible to me. In other words, part chemical engineering, part aeronautical engineering, part software engineering for the pilotage and air space separation, and part software-economic innovation in terms of the ride hailing concept in our phones makes this all at least a new kind of thing since what might have been 50 years ago. Many new technologies coming together. We shall see. I am bullish on solid state batteries that seem to be coming - they are 2 to 2.5 times more energy dense in their current concept than Lithium based chemical batteries and they charge much faster too. OMG I couldn't agree more. A flying car is a funny thing like a cartoon character worth having if you are a nutty professor (and I am!) but not appropriate for general consumption. I mean if I had $375k - you get a crappy airplane that is a crappy car. And my car gets covered in bugs, salt, snow, .... can you imagine the pre-flight to make sure you didn't get dinged by a shopping cart at the grocery store? Can you imagine how much that grocery cart dig would cost to repair - talk about hangar rash to the nth degree. For $375k - I would buy 10 used Subarus and keep them at all my favorite airports, and a nice used airplane and fly between the airports. And for those airports I didn't already have a car - I would rent a car. There - problem solved. I get to drive good cars and fly a good airplane.

My rocket TSI520NB engine had about 1400 hrs on it when I was forced to remove 6 perfectly good ECI Titan cylinders due to an AD and put 6 new ones which I got from Victor because I had them do the multi-angle valve job described here. Now I am at about 1950 hrs.

That would be my guess.

Exactly. That's my wonder.

I can't find something that I found previously - it was something like that one emag gets you to something like 85% of the benefit that would be two emags. is that right? I am trying to understand if it is worth it to think of getting a second?

Thats how I use my non-fiki tks. So years go by when I do not see a single wisp of ice - but living near the Great Lakes - I am pretty good with my anti-ice flight planing, or sometimes planning not to fly planning, but I am very glad to have tks as one more backup plan.

We have a guy like that at our airport. An older fellow. Its not a powered parachute but an experimental wing only thing that seems to land in pretty much the same short distance and go just as slow. He seems unaware of general traffic flow and I know he is operating without a radio. I think the fellow in the powered parachute may also be operating without a radio.

Boy I misspelled that. I thought he was just an instructor.

Berkeley - yes - I was there too. I know exactly where that Nobel parking lot is. They have the coolest parking sticker for their Nobel cars . I heard they gave parking passes on a special basis to fields medalists (math) (even though there is no Nobel in math reputed because of some affair). But the unibombef didn’t win the Nobel or fields.

no - true - but Dr Jekyll didn't win a Nobel prize...

You could bring some mosquitoes and get bitten by the Malaria infection or perhaps give yourself bacterial ulcers or something good. This isn't exciting enough.