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  1. Mooneymite
    Duct tape....just a little duct tape.
  2. Mooneymite
    +1 Keep it. Unless you have airborne radar, it is your only source of real-time weather.
  3. Mooneymite
    Congratulations, Rob! What's next?
  4. Mooneymite
    And that's generally a sound operating principle! Not all grass is created equal. There are grass fields that are darn near perfect, there are others best left to bush airplanes and damn fools. The trick is to know the difference. If you don't KNOW....don't go. (I've operated my Mooney out of a grass field for 16 years, now.)
  5. Mooneymite
    In my experience, whatever the insurance company says first off is negotiable. There don't seem to be any hard rules and certainly no industry-wide guidelines. The bigger issue is, "What do YOU consider safe". The insurance company is looking at dollars and cents, you are looking beyond those at life and death.
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    Generally, 10,000' isn't a big deal in terms of presurized items. If you go into the flight levels, you gotta be more careful.
  7. Mooneymite
    Living with your plane is the way to go, for sure! I see Airnav gives you credit for 3000'. It's probably like our runway....it depends on who wants to know. If you're from the county, it's 2500' and a very short 2500', if you're from the insurance company, it's 4800' and it's a long, unobstructed 4800'. If you're a prospective homebuyer, it's about 4500' give or take.
  8. Mooneymite
    Did you originally have the "doghouse"?
  9. Mooneymite
    Welcome! Is that 7TS0?
  10. Mooneymite
    Welcome back! Good for you.
  11. Mooneymite
    Violation!!! MooneyBob, if you are going to post on Mooneyspace, you can't admit there's anything you didn't know. It's in the terms of service, I'm sure. :-)
  12. Mooneymite
    Yeah, but you get to sit up so high and look down on everyone else! That's worth a lot. :-)
  13. Mooneymite
    There are some (not me) who opine that jet time is just about all instrument time since it would be darn near impossible to fly RVSM airspace without reference to instruments. I guess the fact that the autopilot uses the instruments is "close enough" to fulfill "solely by reference". An interesting argument, but I doubt an airline interview board would be impressed.
  14. Mooneymite
    Forget the couch and toilet....does the friend pay for the gas? :-) The T-bone is a thirsty animal!
  15. Mooneymite
    61.51 (g) Logging instrument time. (1) A person may log instrument time only for that flight time when the person operates the aircraft solely by reference to instruments under actual or simulated instrument flight conditions. Generally true when there is no visible horizon, but not specifically stated in this paragraph.
  16. Mooneymite
    My employer tracks those statistics for us....over the years, it seems to work out at about 10%, but if we used the strict "visible horizon", it would probably be a bit more.
  17. Mooneymite
    Have you picked out a nice Aerostar to supplement your Mooney lust? That would be a nice surprise for your wife when you get home!
  18. Mooneymite
    How's the progress? When is your rating ride?
  19. Mooneymite
    Just a suggestion: Get mechanically involved with your plane during your first annual. I don't know how "mechanical" you are, but no one is ever going to be more concerned about the condition of your plane than you. There's no rocket science involved in an 'E' model. Try to find a mechanic who will allow you to participate to "some" degree. A lot of IA's are happy to have the owner do the boring grunt work while they use their expertise on your gripe list.
  20. Mooneymite
    Awsome.
  21. Mooneymite
    That stuff you used on your gear doors? That's what I use on my teeth. Awsome!
  22. Mooneymite
    Rob, why JAX instead of FTY?
  23. Mooneymite
    While I don't doubt there are bad hubs out there, the question devolves into.... How many/what percentage? Of the bad hubs, how many of the failures were due to a prop strike which was not properly addressed? Even the new "non AD" hub can show a crack after a prop strike. In other words, is it really a design issue, or a service issue?
  24. Mooneymite
    It would be very interesting to know how many defective/failing prop hubs turn up during this inspection. To me, this was an AD prompted by failures caused by something other than the prop-hub design. Like the recent "Huck bolt" AD, this seems to be a case of over-kill. I changed mine out when Hartzel had the deal on new hubs right after the AD came out, but my old hub was perfect according to the prop shop. Q: Has anyone on Mooneyspace discovered a bad hub due to this AD yet?
  25. Mooneymite
    I watch these guys fly in/out of HTO, hauling folks out of Manhatten. Those Caravans are pretty tall way up on those amphib floats!
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