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I get it - the concept of dont brake hard until the weight is fully on the wheels and flaps help - I do all that. And home drome is special circumstances. Stronger brakes I think could decrease stopping distance even if only full on near the end of roll out. I usually have a fantastic landing. Occasionally I dont. Last month I had a pretty memorable crummy landing in Land O Lakes WI, on an IFR approach with strong strong gusty winds that had a strong side component and I elected to maintain some extra speed for the gust factor. I think I over did it. Wasn't a pretty landing. I was happy the runway was quite long enough. But all this is just my brakes came out of annual extra crappy this year - yes we re-bled 3 times now. We now suspect that the new pads are not mated to the rotors - that the rotors seem upon measurement to have worn down past minimal spec (POH calls for .205 and Im down to .195) so we are ordering new rotors - but even worse - the old pads might have been shape molded to the bad rotors. That will likely improve the situation a lot. But in the long run - give me fabulous brakes! Its not a bad thing to have good brakes. My dad used to say (regarding cars) 3 things never to skimp on maintenance - tires, brakes and seatbelts.

Thanks. I disagree with those who suggest that brakes any stronger than I have now would be bad because I would not stop any shorter, I should just be better speed disciplined on approach and who needs them anyway. I think my plane is kick ass and my brakes are week - so I want kick ass brakes. Im not motivated enough to do it asap to go out and buy all new parts but I am going to gradually start trying to collect used parts likely from a part out plane, and put it all together within a year or two. Pet project.

Thanks. Who is BAS? Can we do that - just put Bravo brakes on a M20K? I am guessing mechanically sure - so then it would be paper work. Are the Bravo brakes different than the encore brakes? I presume there would be nitty gritty details like doors fitting etc.

I do the same re the flaps upon roll out. You can even drop the flaps as soon as you flare - before you even touch down which just decreased the time of float - but I have decided that is a bit much... For me 3000 ft is my usual go to dont worry too much length. 2500 is my high alert length meaning be extra sure to be sharp. not that I dont always - and below that - needs to be really special circumstances - like I really really want to go there - there is a good strong head wind, not much cross wind, etc. I think 2200 is the shortest I have been into with this plane. And all that said - I have practiced stops to down to 1200 - on a big runway.

Thanks for all the information. Yes - yes - just fly the approach more on speed and I will never need brakes. Yada yada - Yes I have landed on sheer ice so slick I didn't use any brakes at all - and the most dangerous part of that flight was the walk from the airplane to the FBO without falling down. But a plane should not have crappy brakes. Good brakes would require discipline to apply successively more pressure on landing roll out so as not to skid the wheels before the weight is on the wheels. But that is not an excuse to just have crappy brakes. I just go the plane out of annual with new pads and brakes bled funny - so the braking action was poor - which got me thinking - but even in top form my brakes are not excellent. They should be excellent. Why aren't they excellent. Do I really need to do the whole Encore mod thing to get the Bravo style better brakes - or can I just do part of that mod for just the brakes? Or surely there is some other brake set out there and a friendly field approval.... :-/

The brakes on my M20K are barely sufficient I feel. I wish I could have more kick-ass brakes. This is not a chronic problem - just something I wish. I remember once talking with Bennet (who sadly has left us), that he once had a M20k where he had Lasar install a second set of brakes on field approval so that he had double brakes. I wish I had that! Has anyone done anything to improve brakes like double brakes like Bennet, or otherwise some kind of more beefy brake set? Field approval? Or is there some kind of STC out there I am unaware of?

Thanks - I am never confident reading legalese govt stuff.

Canpass has been a convenient way to enter into Canada at a large number of secondary airports often simply by a phone call once you arrive if they opt not to meet you. Without then you need to first land and check in at a larger airport with a border patrol unit on field. More or less - Well I read the they are discontinuing canpass. Really?!! :-( And then they point at Nexus as the alternative - but that seems as if it is not covering the main function regarding GA which I was referring to above. Am I wrong? https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/prog/canpass/menu-eng.html or does the wording mean - that I should not worry - what I want is the RABC which is continuing. " Discontinuation of the CANPASS Air and CANPASS Private Boats programs The CANPASS Air and CANPASS Private Boats programs have been discontinued. Current members will be able to maintain privileges until their membership expires. Check to see if you are eligible to join NEXUS instead as it offers similar or even greater benefits when travelling across the Canada-U.S. border. Other CBSA programs, such as CANPASS – Private Aircraft, CANPASS – Corporate Aircraft, and Remote Area Border Crossing (RABC) are not affected by this discontinuation."

What kind of turbine?

And it does have a different kind of engine too - so there's that. And I could paint it yellow because I had a hard time choosing between yellow and blue when I was choosing how to paint my rocket.

well then I had a bunch of dead mice to get ride of. but yeah. in the words of bugsy Malone - I iced them!

I had an over flow incident when I first got this plane - about a dozen years ago with a tiny tiny puddle in the hangar that I was going to clean up the next day because it was cold - I came back the next day and there were several dead must lying in the puddle.

Thats a really pretty paint job!

Wow - they did it! I was pretty excited about the idea of this engine around 2007 when I had a Diamond DA40. It is a great concept in principle - less moving parts than a converted Mercedes diesel - purpose built - highly efficient - and dont forget - avgas is less available and more expensive in many parts of the world. If not here eventually.

There's Mt Hood near Portland, OR right at the end of the flight. I turned toward it just for a moment to get it into the windscreen and you can see the SVT on the GI275 is fun. My first coast to coast.

Thank YOU Tom! You and your wife were so inviting and welcoming. You really made an exciting trip even better. And ... I had a flat tire in your hangar which you helped me with (code for Tom rounded up a tube on a Sat am, and then fixed it himself since I am mechanically useless with such things), and when you said what bad luck I got a flat I said, it was great luck - what a great place to have a flat with such wonderful help! And got me on my way to complete my long flight the same day. I took some gorgeous pictures I will try to post later today.

Such a beautiful Missile - if my wife weren't my sane second opinion - I would buy it and keep it in a hangar adjacent to my rocket. I mean what's better than one moony? two!

I lost one in Lake Michigan once... I bet its still there.

There is something missed on this thread so far regarding diagnosing a turbo charger failure in flight. I learned this the scary way - I had a turbo charger failure in flight! If you are at altitude where the turbo charger is making pressure well above ambient pressure - which is usually - then your engine will likely be too rich if the charger fails and this will cause the engine to turn off. I.e., I was in cruise at 16.5k running 30'' 2200 which is 18gph. Without the turbo - the pressure is so low inside the cylinders that 18gph is waaaaay too rich and it causes the engine to flood and shut off. So then it was very obvious something was wrong. I didn't figure out what until I had landed. There was also smoke because the turbo had started burning oil in the last minutes. So I assumed I had a fire and didn't correctly diagnose a turbo failure - a restart would have required a much leaner mixture to match the percent power of running without turbo MP at 16.5k. I think there is also a danger of a fuel fire with that much fuel pumping into a dead but hot engine? In any case, in my case I made a successful on airport landing, dead stick as there is plenty of glide range at that altitude. So I learned a lot that day....

25-2200 is too fast for the pattern. But those book numbers the lowest being 26-2200 is a cruise setting of 55%. But Continental much more recently than put out an AD not to cruise at cruise settings with prop slower than 2300 for counter weight issues and some incidents I believe that happened in the Cape Air fleet - so I dont either. I generally substitute for example 25-2300 for book 26-2200 (its a little higher) and 29-2300 for 30-2200 (again its a little higher). But in pattern and even in approach, its fun to use much lower settings - e.g. 23-2400 is a common setting I use while working an approach plate and 21-23 -2400 is a fine setting for in the pattern vfr. And of course lower when you turn base then final - dial it down to 17- or 18 and full forward prop as appropriate. If you are cruising at settings lower than 55% you do need to pay attention to oil temps and cylinder temp to keep an eye if they are too cold.

Bingo! Good! So I am on the "ad hoc artificial intelligence committee" at my university - in part stirred to action by chatgpt and cheating - which is sometimes humorously silly when a student thinks they can ask chatgpt to write a complete essay for them, or even large snippets, and no one will notice. But its not just about cheating - this stuff is here to stay and its only going to get better - and it will be in the work place in all sorts of ways and we need to decide what to teach and how to teach it. Just like when graphing calculators transitioned from cheating - to required - and gram marly, etc. I use it now for example to write snippets of code, in Matlab, in python and in C++ - in this way it is a work accelerator.

Chatgpt for president.

Sadly it’s true / just look at the most popular tv “news” outlets. Look at our politicians. Who voted for the liars? The people.

That’s what chatgpt does in general - makes false statements with complete authority.

This was already done a few weeks ago. The novelty is done and you are late.