FloridaMan

From another thread:

ADS-B weather is relatively current. I routinely fly from Tampa to West Palm and Ft. Myers in the summertime. The solution for me is to stay far away from things and carry enough fuel to bug out. I don't fly IFR in the summer in Florida. Weather can back-build too and you don't want to get caught up in the cleavage between two building cells if you're up high. It also seems that the east coast runs hotter on storms than the west coast. My routing is oftentimes down the west coast to Ft. Myers and then across to West Palm to maximize safe landing areas. As far as predictions 8-10 hours out, get the iPhone app called NOAA RadarUS+. I think it's $3. It has screens that show you the hourly precipitation forecast, three and six day forecasts. The three and six days are statistical likelihood maps and I find them to be incredibly useful for flight planning because it gives you a picture of your route too.

I'm in Seattle for work this weekend and through Thursday. My Mooney is still in Tampa since I flew commercial. I hoped to rent a Diamond or a Cessna while I was up here, but with the weather being so nice scheduling is impossible with the flight schools that I called. I was curious if anyone is taking a burger trip and has a extra seat to where I could see some of the sights out here from the air. I've got my stratus 2 with me if anyone out here is considering getting one and wants to try it out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

While it doesn't have the newer service manuals, you might want to grab the ones that are available here if you still need an illustrated parts catalog, etc: http://67m20e.com/m20e_manuals.htm

This is what mine looked like after installation. The manifold pressure would bounce around a bit and required an orifice to be installed in-line with the sensor. I couldn't be happier with the instrument and the fuel flow appears to be spot on, with any variances being attributable to whether it was fueled all the way to the top, or just under it. http://mooneyspace.com/gallery/image/36486-/

Also, when calculating your crosswind component, I like to use the clock method. Think of 60 degrees as pretty close to 100 percent of the wind speed as crosswind. 30 degrees is roughly 50%. So take the degree difference between the runway alignment and the winds. Think of the face of a clock like a pie chart and the fill being your crosswind component. It's not perfect, but neither are the weather reports perfect to the knot. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I go 25 hours between oil changes and 50 hours per filter, and no more than three months per filter.

Is it that inconvenient to send it to one of the reputable Mooney guys? Where is the airplane? Here's a big one to check: http://mooneyspace.com/topic/11834-just-learned-my-c-is-junk/

I had #4 IRANed last annual. An A&P friend said that he wasn't surprised, given the way it was baffled.

Yup. Three of the nuts are easy to get to. The last one requires either home made tools, lots of creativity or one of these:

Your airplane looks familiar. Is it the E with the rayjay turbo installed? To put it in terms another pilot used when I asked about LOP, he said, "you're only burning 10gph to begin with"

Make sure you let us know if a deal comes about on the top prop. My J-style spinner (LoPresti cowl) costs $2500 to replace if it fails and it makes sense to me to sell my good non-AD Hartzell and pay the difference if it happens. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I flew with Parker when I picked mine up. I'd use him again if I needed someone to fly with me. I did my intro training with Bruce Jaeger who supposedly spends time in Florida as well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

+1 on the above. The fuel gauges are worse than useless because they can lead you to believe there's fuel in the tank when there isn't. Even if you replaced those with modern digital gauges, you would still have the notoriously unreliable senders in the tank. I would adopt a policy of not flying without your takeoff tank at the 25 gallon tab. My plane has the dial gauges in the tanks and those are pretty accurate, even in flight. I like the confidence they give me to look out the window and know there's fuel in the tank. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

+1 on the above. I had a similar issue when I had a battery pack plugged into a USB lighter receptacle. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pilotless planes perform differently when control is handed off to a well trained pilot. See: Airbus incidents. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Or at high altitude. My naturally aspirated F at 17,000 felt squirrelly at 120 IAS Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Drones need to be regulated and classified by weight. DJI does what all manufacturers should be doing (limiting altitude, airspace and airport proximity by GPS). For exceptions or heavier craft, the operators should have more training and more to lose for irresponsible operations and the craft should have rugged identification attached as well as transponders in some cases. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What kind of training device are you using? When I was going for my rating, Foggles and Jepp shades were fine, but the visor style hood would make me a bit nauseous at times. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I dunno about that. It looked like two big guys in the front. There's not much leg room in the back of a C. 5'2 and 160 lbs looks about like 6' at 230lbs. I'm not sure of the useful load of a C, but they said they only took 30 gallons of gas out. Later model J's got a 160lb bump in max gross and ferry pilots routinely fly at 30% over max gross. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Out of curiosity; were you climbing at Vx or Vy? It's always concerning when a more experienced pilot gets a noteworthy upset. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Where are you located?

Bill Turley at Aircraft Engineering at KBOW, Mike at Double-M Aviation at KLAL or Phil with PJ Aircraft at KAVO would all be excellent choices and I suspect that any one of them would know exactly how and where to look for the major items such as corrosion, AD Research and powerplant inspection. I would trust any of their opinions for a prepurchase inspection. Mike seemed to effortlessly diagnose and fix an oil leak on my engine that the previous owner and I had been chasing for years. Phil specializes in Mooneys and will probably be the cheapest of the bunch.

If you come out to the ramp in any state in the southeast around sunrise, you'll notice all the airplanes are soaking wet from the dew. Even at the coastal airports where there's salt in the air, it seems that you really have to neglect an airplane that's parked outside for it to develop bad corrosion. If you're really worried about it, go buy yourself a can of corrosionX, take the bottom cushion out of your back seat, pull the aluminium tape off the square panels beneath it, inspect your spar through those round holes and hose it down with corrosionX. While I have no evidence for it, I would think that a passenger spilling a cocacola in your back seat to where it runs into the floor is a much higher risk than climate-based corrosion.

I am under the impression that sometimes gps waypoints move as do VOR and runway headings so the approach may be the "same," with the plate updated for the recalibrated navigation points. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk