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First owned aircraft: Cessna 172 Second and current aircraft: Mooney M20K 231. I love it!

I've never understood how some women can talk around a subject without actually getting to the point. Somehow men are supposed to magically infer what they really want. To me, it sounds like your lady friend is making excuses. Who knows why. Maybe she really thinks it looks inappropriate. Or she is worried about a problem at home, or with your wife, or with you. Or what ever. My advice is to find another pilot and go shoot some instrument approaches, go to a fly in, or some other adventure.

I'm just trying to picture this on a Mooney. The only way I see it working without messing up the weight and ballance is to replace the exising engine with the dual ducted fan/engine contraption. --Nevermind, I don't even think that would work.

In two weeks, my bird goes in for an avionics upgrade. Audio panel and GTN650 are a certainty. I'm considering adding an ASPEN PFD, or adding an RCA2600 AI and a GPSS module. Having said that, the RCA2600 and GPSS are already more than half of the cost to add an Aspen. And the King HSI will eventually break and cost $$$ to fix. Anyway, I plan to keep the vacuum AI no matter what I do. For me, AI redundancy is more important than removing a vacuum system from the plane. --Now, I might change my mind when my vacumm pump eventually dies.

Nice meeting all who made it out to the flyin.

Stupid is not even close to the proper description of the pilots actions.

Bumping this 4 year old thread, as I have the same question. The POH makes no mention of a visual gauge in the tank. I guess they expect us to use the sight gauges on the wings. --I'm not real comfortable with that.

Interesting. Picture 4 shows a prop strike. I wonder what happend.

I have to admit I had to resort to google to understand the difference between a barrel roll and an aileron roll.

I've never flown in Mexico. Do you get direct or are you stuck on airways?

I found my self looking at Mooneys on Barnstormes today. I was really surprised to see a M20F going for $34,500. Yes it has a run out engine, and older avionics. Has the market really gone down that much? Does anyone know this bird? http://www.lvaircraft.com/cgi-bin/waa1gate.isa?WAA_PACKAGE=BDS&WAA_FORM=BDSShowListing&C=0000000000JT&L=00000000A4Y7

Aeroshell 100W+ in a TSIO360LB

What I found interesting from the Cirrus deployment list were #2 and #4: "autopilot-induced stall". Autopilot is listed as a safety device on the poll and got 20% of the votes. --Now, this has to be training.

I wonder how the numbers would look if gear up landings were considered a maintenance cost? And while not maintenance, it is certainly a cost of ownership. Anyway, I think the Cirrus is an incredible fixed gear plane. I wonder what it could be as a retract. --Maybe a SX300

What happened? It looks like a nice plane to me.

No, just a bit of whining on my part. --More about the general state of aviation. For a car, this sort of part cost $15, for a boat $30, for a plane $500.

After two weeks of crappy weather I went for a flight on Sunday in my M20K. 5 minutes into the flight I aborted. High oil temperatures and dropping pressure. As soon as I turned back to the field, the temperature drops and pressure starts to comes back up. I scheduled the plane with the mechanic and told him the symptoms and to check the Vernatherm, change the oil (about 25 hours of use), and to double check the oil pressure regulator. I just got the call that the Vernatherm is bad. --It's always nice to find a root for a problem. It makes me feel much better when I put my family in the plane. And the bad news: A new Vernatherm lists for $468.98. At least airpower sells them for $375. And please, no stories of how these were $25 10 years ago.

It's because prohibitions are often times the result of a bureaucratic decision. An example is a Cessna 150 acrobat vs the standard 150. Aside from the seat belts and doors, there probably was not a lot of difference in the plane. Remember the 55 MPH speed limit and how we were all going to die for driving at any speed over that. I'm sure there are other examples as well. Anyway, I hope to never roll my Mooney.

Here is a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xews-1bcsZ4of a K model roll

I've done aileron rolls in the Xplane simulator with a M20J. I usually don't crash! As for real life, I don't have the training to do so. And it seems like it adds lots of risks: personal safety and equipment (gyro, engine, etc)

I agree ballistic chutes are not perfect and cost far to much. But, if I could put one in my plane for $5K, I would. And I would feel much better about flying it at night, or over rough terrain, or in IMC. Also, I don't know the statistics, but it seems fuel exhaustion is a common way for pilots to die. 99.99% preventable, but I bet ballistic chutes would save many of these pilots. I also think that the seatbelt airbags are a good idea, but I'm not sure I'm ready to spend the cash to get them installed. Especially since my plane already has shoulder belts.

This video shows a good example of why I would want one. Look at time 2:15. --And of course this could never happen in a Mooney. It would be the tail instead.

My wish list is a ballistic parachute. --I suspect my grand children will die of old age before this happens!

Makes me feel better about my botched landings!

I love the internet. I just learned what a resolver is: "It's the gizmo inside the CDI that's hooked to the OBS knob. The resolver converts the position that you set on the knob to an electrical signal that goes to the converter, telling it what course you're interested in." Apparently it works by phase shifting a signal.