jnisley

5% business 5% pleasure 90% Angel Flight

Congratulations, fly safe!

I'm not denying that it was a very effective way to extinguish the fire, I'd love to use that method to put out barn fires, it would save lots of time cleaning and packing hose:)

I confess, I also Googled the aircraft's payload:) The firetruck pump capacity I knew because I've spent long hours operating pumpers at fire scenes.

Thats only 1,620 gallons of water, many firetrucks have pumps rated at 1200-2000 gallons per minute. It is a unique way to put out a vehicle fire though, as long a water damage isn't an issue:)

Also, i just noticed that the time stamps on the two photos (ADS-B and XM) are the same.

I agree However, I've found that textual METARS consistently (three separate trips) updated 9-16 minutes earlier on ADS-B than on XM. Attached are photos that compare ADS-B and XM in light rain. You can see that the darker green displayed on XM is the only green displayed on ADS-B. The only time it was actually raining was when flying through the darker green.

ForeFlight Checklist Pro works as advertised and can be customized to fit your plane but I've found using it too cumbersome for my liking.

Congratulations!

If it doesn't stop raining soon here in the east that might just happen:)

I agree

Be courteous, professional and pay attention and most controllers will do the same, if they tell you to standby, that is what they expect you to do, last evening I heard a very busy Potomac Approach controller asked a pilot to standby, rather then stand by the pilot requested the same practice approach again, the second, VERY FIRM request to standby did the trick, there was absolute radio silence for what seemed like a minute.

By looking straight down you could see green, or at least imagine it, but there was absolutely no horizon, at 5,000' I couldn't see the 2-3000' mountains 6 miles to the west of my route, the sun was setting which made it worse.

Last night I did a quick trip to Virginia (GKJ-HWY-GKJ) to pick up my son, even though the weather was perfect VFR, the haze in Virginia was so bad that in reality I was in IMC conditions during my descent from 9,000 through 5,000. (I was on an IFR flight plan so I was fine but I was glad I wasn't a newly minted VFR pilot.)

I've been flying with the GDL69/MX20/XM combo for years with good success. Recently I started using Stratus 2/ADS-B/iPad (18+ hours, four trips) along side XM and am very happy with the results. (I fly in the east so coverage isn't a problem) I'm not ready to cancel XM just yet because I like the redundancy but if I would have to choose between the two, the latter combo would win hands down, here's why. You get a much better picture of what's going on because of the larger display and the ease of zooming in and out. All the weather can be overlayed giving a good visual picture (airmets/sigmets, temps, ceilings, surface winds, flight rules, visibility, TFRs, PIREPS etc.) In every instance that I kept track (three seperate trips) the textual METARS were updated 9-16 minutes earlier on ADS-B then XM, I don't know why because release times were same. I do think the radar display isn't quite as good as XM but very sufficient. It's free (but you need to pay $899 for the Stratus 2

The longest day trip I ever flew was a 1140nm round trip (one stop), 8.9 tach hours, 87.5 gallons fuel, 9.83 gph ROP Five years ago this month I started flying Angel Flight missions, to date I flew 31 missions, 155+ tach hours averaging 5 hours per trip with the longest being 8 hours and the shortest being 3 hours. All are multi leg trips, usually three.

I wasn't seeing yellow yet but I had to go. Oh well, maybe next time, now that I have all these tips from the Mile High Potty Club.

My only experience trying to pee in flight went something like this, alone in the plane, AP on, after I finally got the container situated I couldn't pee due to total lockup flow control valve and I couldn't trick it into releasing because I didn't have the luxury of flushing the urinal.

So the air actually doesn't mix with the fuel until the fuel is past the smaller orifice, it's been awhile since I looked at an injector?

Another thing to be aware of on this system, If you find that your EGTs are fluctuating on a cylinder during normal cruise it could be that the o-rings on you injectors are damaged or have deteriorated to the point of leaking air. (In my experience it took one hour of labor and less then a dollar in parts to fix it.)