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https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N333LD/history/20220510/1515Z/MYAM/KPBI

I'm going to be the first to say "it depends" how you classify it. By hours, most of my Mooney flying is for purpose and thus I voted as such in the poll. However, by flights or landings, probably mostly for practice. I can rack up 50 hours in 1-2 trips and make less than a dozen landings. But then in 10 hours of local flying and practice I can rack up 30 landings and get a ton of practice in. So it's hard to say and requires an explanation.

Is most of your flying for practice or for purpose? Do you get your practice in amidst purpose flights? Or most of your flights local practice flights like patterns, maneuvers, and approaches?

Lately my son has been fascinated by airplanes. Any time a jet passes overhead, he points and says "doo-goo-doo." It's his first conscious concept. He says the same sound for a jet, a Mooney, for the sound of a jet flying over the house, for a toy airplane, and in response to the word airplane. He's about 18 months now. So, it seemed like a fitting time to bring him to the airport for his 3rd flight ever. Unlike the first 2 times, he was particularly interested in all the activity at the airport. He was pointing out jets departing from Newark as well as the airplanes at the airport. Had to run to keep up with him. Did a short sightseeing flight up the Hudson and around New York City.

With all the international flying I have done, not a single time has anyone ever checked for it. It’s like an umbrella, as long as you have it, it won’t rain.

Hmm... in that case I'd imagine you'd wanna get your money's worth! And payback at coworkers

Had a really close call with a Turkey Vulture on final to Andover Aeroflex with 2000ft runway. Had to make an urgent evasive turn. Surprised I was able to still make that landing. Then had a near miss with a Red Tailed Hawk on departure. And then a close encounter with a Bald Eagle on base. Of course @carusoam was slow with the phone to get any pictures so blame him. But we did get lunch and each got 2 points in the NJ99s Spring Challenge.

Actually I'd imagine that raising flaps in ground effect would worsen climb over obstacle performance both through a momentary loss of lift during retraction and increasing the stall speed, climb speed, and Vx.

Good thing they didn’t purge Anthony’s avatar or Mooneyspace might cease functioning entirely!

Not to worry, I got my Mooney repainted so my avatar got an update since a decade ago. Now who I’m worried about is @carusoam, he hasn’t updated his plane or pic in more years than he can probably recall.

Kneeboarding is uncomfortable, forces head down, and more likely to cause spatial disorientation. Yoke mount (either yoke) keeps your head upright and you can see attitude changes in your peripheral vision. The only good reason I can see for old kneeboard style was hand writing but that’s now obsolete.

I can't imagine it another way. Mounting the ipad down on a kneeboard is completely nuts, but don't need to look at it enough to put it in front of the instruments. On the copilot yoke takes a small head turn. With a larger ipad screen, can see it clearly from that distance. Good use of space. Plus it gives passenger something to look at. They like seeing all the traffic and updates.

Even if they could get it down to being as simple as swapping a couple duracells, it would be 5 mins for the battery change and half an hour for filing FAA paperwork for the alteration.

These things seem like a good idea on paper. But, sometimes it's better to wait till they work out all the kinks.

I mount full size ipad on the copilot yoke. That way it’s a bigger map, doesn’t block view of instruments, and isn’t in my way. It’s not something you look at continuously, just periodically so it works. I got a bran new, bottom of the line, standard iPad fo use solely for flying. It’s same or better than the top of the line ipad I used a few years ago.

1400nm Denver to Linden, NJ in 9 hours or upwind 1320nm Linden to San Marcos, TX in 11 hours and over 85 gallons used. Also done a bunch of 7-9 hour flights like Phoenix to Chicago, Linden to Winnipeg, Linden to Goose Bay, Belize to San Andres Colombia, Lubbock TX to Linden, Phoenix to St Louis, Linden to Key West, Florida to Virgin Islands, and a bunch more.

Makes perfect sense to me. It is also possible for a non instrument rated pilot to log actual instrument time without a view limiting device or safety pilot during VFR in actual instrument conditions. Not likely or recommended, but it is permissible. Theres definitely times flying IFR in VMC that is in AIC and logs as instrument time.

61.57(d) Instrument proficiency check. (1) Except as provided in paragraph (e) of this section, a person who has failed to meet the instrument experience requirements of paragraph (c) of this section for more than six calendar months may reestablish instrument currency only by completing an instrumentproficiency check.

Not just traffic. Terrain, airspace, altitude, someone aware of your last known location, even just someone to tell you that you’re doing something stupid! For instance pointing out wrong altitude for VFR.

Like fishes or peoples?

For real cross country flying (not the 50nm nonsense), I’m probably IFR 80% of the time and with ATC 99% of the time. Two reasons for not being IFR are inconvenient routing in VMC or strictly avoiding weather/terrain VFR. For local flying (pretty much any time I’m not packing a bag, even if it’s more than 50nm), I’m VFR 95% of the time. Unless it’s IMC and I gotta go, it’s too inconvenient to do IFR from uncontrolled airport under NY Bravo. Probably taking advisories 80% of the time flying local. Sometimes the distance is too short or there just isn’t much going on so I occasionally don’t take advisories. Point is, I love the freedom but even better to have an extra set of eyes for safety.

How often are you talking to ATC? How often do you make a flight without talking to ATC at all? Part 2: how much flying do you do IFR even in absolute VMC?

91.119 and 91.13 apparently for making a very low pass over some houses. He says it was an inspection pass to land on someone's property but elected not to. It's kind of a long video and mildly interesting to hear his side of things.

Seems like a pretty disastrous place to have one of those. But even at sea level, I'm sure it would be disastrous for whatever pants you're wearing in any case

I think all those problems are dwarfed by losing friends to aviation tragedies or screw ups. Making mistakes is probably the thing that bring me closer to those thoughts than the cost/effort.