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I never understood the reason for imaginary numbers in school till I became a plane owner...

I love working on my Mooney but somethings are worth a $100!

I enjoyed 8yrs of Obama in Chicago, glad that is soon to be over though unfortunately I will be gone from Chicagoland before he will. When I was based at 06C it essentially closed that airport when he was in town.

Ha ha probably what one can expect after a refueling event, I of course would never fly with a sponge as a replacement gas cap. These pictures are for reference purposes only and not a depiction of real life events. Any resemblance to persons (or sponges), living or dead, is purely coincidental.

My new fuel cap....

A friend of mine has had work down by guys at 54J on his 320 and been really pleased.

+1

$2.95 in the Midwest, it makes me cry what I am going to have to pay on East Coast...

See you all next month maybe, I am moving to 47N in April.

Shows ASR only.

Assuming you are talking about this Incident, how is this a better result?

That doesn't tell you anything other than your plane is faster than book. It doesn't tell you that if you hung a two bladed prop it would be slower than your three bladed prop.

Jerry Manthey has a write up in Decmber 2015 MAPA Log covering two versus three bladed props. His opinion is stick with the two bladed and that is in part because the crankshaft is balanced for a two bladed prop. Personally I don't see any advantage to a three bladed prop on a 200HP normally aspirated engine and a lot of down sides (weight, expense, slower cruise,etc.).

What did the airspeed and VSI indicate?

And the POH/STC limitations say do not engage the turbo unless the throttle is wide open. You have what the answer is, if you want to operate differently by all means that is your choice but question asked and answered.

You must have the magic touch because busting the bead (Mooney or otherwise) for me is either 30 seconds or 2000hrs of torture.

Nice video, you should really consider stepping down to an Executive so that step retracts. I bet that Acclaim doesn't even have a cigar lighter in it.

I don't see where anyone wrote that??

They are fun, I usually do approaches at KRFD and they are always asking if you can do an ASR as I am assuming they need to do X many to be current. I have never done a PAR though, if anyone knows where you can make that happen in Chicago/NYC area I would be interested!

Similar to Dev I have had a bottom plug foul and pulled it out, cleaned, it and gone. If I pull it out, clean it, and then drop it....well you see why the spare could be handy. For the most part if the plane breaks there isn't a ton of things you can do to fix it unless you happen to have the part handy. Spark plugs are a very small and light part so worth carrying around. I will carry a spare tire/tube when I am traveling to the middle of nowhere as well, never had a need to use it but it becomes an option to fix a problem.

I don't know if it matters or not, the book says do not engage the turbo without the throttle fully engaged. Personally I wouldn't do it and if I was just doing touch and goes I would do it NA.

$3,883,500 for the engineer using the numbers you provided.

Things are TSO'ed for a reason, a cheap tube meets the same standards determined to be safe and then some as does a really expensive one. I have seen a fair amount of people with bad stems, bad tubes, etc. Speculation on my part (and not implying this was the result of your failure) but a lot of that comes from improper installation not a bad tube. A retread is also TSO'ed and will provide the same level of required performance as a solid tire. The only difference is if something causes the tread to separate (improper inflation, FOD, etc.) it is going to fail. A small level of risk but one that I think isn't worth saving $10-20 if anything depending on the tires you are buying. I didn't say FOD isn't a safety issue, I said " In the world of commercial airliners a retread is infinitely less expense than a new tire and if that tire fails, it will likely have no impact to the safety of flight because you have multiple tires on the landing gear which is designed to suffer single tire failures". If you have a dozen main landing wheels, losing one isn't good but the extra tires provide redundancy. On a GA plane you only have one tire a side, losing one is going to cause some loss of control and potentially put you in the grass or a runway light. Correct point, # of landings has a big impact. I should have been clearer. I realized a long time ago that when it comes to planes people are irrationally passionate. Nothing wrong with a retread it, nothing wrong with a $200 6x6, and nothing wrong with a $75 6x6. They are all TSO'ed. Just sharing my point of view on the topic, not trying to change opinions (though like most I think my opinion is the right one!).

As I posted above my nose tire is ready for replacement after 5yrs due to dry rot. The mains usually dry rot out after 2-3yrs in part because I park outside and I am conservative when it comes to tossing off a $60 tire. Tires in GA rarely wear out, either somebody chirps the brakes on landing and puts a bald spot on them or they dry rot out. You need to fly a lot of hours (more than 99% of us will) to actually wear the tread out. Thus why I don't bother spending a lot of money on expensive tires.

If you spend $125K on this program and complete it at age 23 to become a flying the line FO, and upgrade in ten years to A320/321 Captain then based on current JetBlue contract (70 hrs minimum guarantee only, no per diem, etc.) you will earn $6,523,440.00 by 65. JetBlue isn't the best paying airline out there by a long shot and all the little side deals of manipulating contract pay add million(s) to the final life time earnings. Early pay in the airline industry is terrible, this is how seniority based pay systems work. If your airline goes bust and you have to restart seniority somewhere else it hurts but you still earn a huge a massive multiplier more than a high school graduate. If you want to factor in a four year degree, they just want the paper so any online university certificate mill degree works so the barrier to entry there is pretty small in terms of $$$. It is a highly lucrative and well paying industry but like any industry you have to make smart career decisions and be willing to suffer (as Erik shares in his own example) to get to the promised land.