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That's great, looking forward to see how it goes because I will need to do something with mine before too long. Steve

  I've never heard of this; I suppose I could have missed it somehow. But, if your airplane does this, I think you should check out your aileron and gear system thouroughly.

What kind of airplane are you talking about?

Sorry to hear about your plane. Hope you can find a way to get it flying again or at least make some use of it and your investment. Steve

Around here we play it this way: foot beats cockroach, nuclear bomb beats foot, and cockroach beats nuclear bomb. Not sure about bicycle vs. car vs. airplane vs. etc... Seems like it would be hard to play a choosing game with that many variables.

It looks like the boot doesn't close up very well around the bar. What do you think of the overall fit/quality? If you don't mind, what is the price? Thanks Steve

Three years of 5 figure annuals would be 2/3 of the street price of a lot of our airplanes. Your mechanic wouldn't cut it for a lot of us...

    Another thing that helps is ownship depiction on VFR sectionals (foreflight iPad). No more guessing your position relative to charted obstacles. This combined with the handheld terrian alerting is a pretty good combination for these types of flights. I guess you still have to worry about uncharted obstacles, but I think that becomes more of an issue when really forced low, like less than 500', with low visibility. Probably starting to push it a little too much in that case.

Interesting that you have a rare, one-off, unstallable Mooney. Maybe you should patent this feature. Are your fuel tanks also more full after a flight than before? ;-)

Can't wait to hear how the new engine cluster turns out. Are you going to paint the panel? The 45 deg lines in the weave were wigging me out when trying to focus on the instruments!

Agree that we need to self regulate our personal behaviors. There is already a big incentive to not do behaviors that are too risky: crashing and burning.

That's a dangerous brazen thing to do? Come on! I wish we had a lot more people capable and inclined to be buying new airplanes. A Cirrus is not a particularly hard airplane to fly. The attitude and responsibility of the pilot is the important thing, not the number of days elapsed since your certificate was signed.

Can't say I particularly like where you're going with this. Yes some people would be better suited to a different hobby because they don't have a temperament or personality that is good at making life critical decisions in real time at a fast pace. But in America we have the freedom to spend our money and time how we want. We don't "allow" people to travel in their own airplanes on their own schedule, they have the freedom and right to do that as they please. They can decide on their own what activities they want to do. I personally want to be able to decide if I play video games, fly, or do any other activity. In turn I don't want to tell anyone else what they can or can't do. I don't want you "allowing" me to do something any more than yo want me "allowing" you. Steve

Without regard to liability, I wouldn't ever want someone else, particularly ATC, deciding if I needed help and "taking over". I want the freedom and responsibility of determining what is too dangerous for myself and taking action as I see fit. Flying is one of the few remaining activities where we retain most of our freedoms from authorities making these kind of decisions for us. If we give ATC the authority to decide when to "take the decision making out of our hands", where do you bound it? What if they think the crosswind is too strong and deny takeoff clearance? No thanks, I'll make my own decisions and deal with the consequences myself, good or bad.

Are you able to report what caused your crash? Steve

If gap seals make the difference in making it out of a field or not, you probably shouldn't be using that field.

How high was your bus voltage before replacing the regulator? What regulator did you replace, and what did you replace it with? Are you running generator or alternator system? My bus voltage trends on the high side of recommended, but I don't seem to have battery life issues or any other problems. I have an interav alternator conversion, with the interav regulator.

The rounded corners are part of the skin of the aircraft. To do it right, like the factory did, I think you would have to replace entire skins, including the door. Anything else wouldn't look like the modern airplane.

I used to fly a 201 that had these same symptoms. I wrote it up after a night flight with pulsing cabin lights and ammeter. The mechanic found that the alternator brushes were very worn. New brushes and it was back to normal. In that case, with the wear to the brushes that I saw, I would guess that airplane didn't have a lot of time left before the alternator would have died.

I think you're off base placing a large portion of the blame on the lawyers. Without plaintiffs there would be none of these cases going to court. Somehow people have developed this attitude that something bad happens = winning the lottery. Except that when reading the news, it seems that the odds are better taking a company with "deep pockets" to court than buying power balls.

If you're slower than you anticipated with a tailwind and slower than you anticipated with a headwind, maybe your true airspeed isn't as high as you think it is! ;-) Like a Piper with a built in headwind!

Certainly the plaintiffs are the cause, the same as the psycho pulling the trigger commits a mass murder, not the gun. But unlike a gun which has no ability to stop an evil person who is pulling the trigger, the lawyers do have some ability to not bring these lotto liability cases to court.

Downtown Kansas City, the country club plaza lights just southeast of MKC, just outsdie of the D airspace. It's a big downtown area covered with approximately 5 billion lights. It's famous with the local pilots.

I think that Dave's point was that lawyers who are "trying to make your life safer" are potentially reducing the ability to make new technologies available that could increase safety. Nobody forced anyone to buy a chainsaw and use it without a kick guard. The buyer of a product should be the one to determine if the safety feature is "economically reasonable", and if they want it they can buy it. If they didn't buy it, well, you pay your money and you take your chances. If you don't think a product is safe, don't buy it and don't use it. Injuries suck but something bad happening does not equal I won the lottery.

If one plug was not firing, that cylinder would have an increase in EGT, not drop to zero. I've never personally had a dead cylinder on a four cylinder 360, but if two plugs were not firing in one cylinder, I doubt you would have any question if there was a problem or not! So I agree likely a bad probe.