Marauder

Or was that nightmares? I am not sure anymore, it all was a big blur with my wallet being replaced from opening it so many times...

Brings back memories...

Ha! That would be a new product line for the Reaper. I think he prefers quick cash transfers. Leasing programs don't seem to fit his operating model. Which from his history is buy them and 1) resale them or 2) let his inner Reaper take them apart.

The acquisition costs of companies today is a bit of whack with their market value & revenues. A few years ago an acquisition might be 3X to 4X their revenue. Today it is not unusual to see 10X acquisition costs. A lot depends on market potential and other potential suitors for the company.

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Kind of reminds me of an incident that happened on move in day for my freshman year at college. I met my new roommate and his parents. It was a hot August day even for western NY standards. I asked my roommate with his parents standing there if he knew where the pop machine was. Both he and his parents had this unbelievable shocked look on their faces and didn't say a word. Later that evening my roommate from Long Guyland asked me if they really had pot machines in western NY. That was when I got indoctrinated to the word "soda".

Phil was having a lot of trouble findings qualified technicians to build them. Hopefully, the issue described above is a one off or caused by something else. When my Halo wires got pulled out of the unit controller, I opened the box and went to see if I could solder the wires back in. Way too small for this Mongo to work on. I will say that when I sent my unit back for repair, Phil fixed them at no charge. That is customer service.

If it wasn't for the British we wouldn't have a lot of our quotes: "No taxation without representation." “Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!” "We have met the enemy and they are ours." "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories." "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." And of course, we can't forget the most important one: "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor." Andrew -- you were asking for that one! Hope this doesn't mean my supply of British tea will be interrupted.

Hey, maybe we can promote this as "The Miracle on the Marsh".

I just got the call that my spot in the queue came up. I can't afford to wait 8 weeks. Will keep everyone updated on the "Aspen November Timeline".

It is indeed in the fresh air plenum. I replaced my coax for all the antennas on the plane. The front antenna’s cable was held onto the roll bar with metal fasteners that deformed and had cut into the old cable a fair amount. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

How long did it take for Aspen to turn your units around? Have you played with the blue banana for vertical descents and climbs? If so, how well does it work? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

The key is to run them hard at high power low altitudes for as long as it takes to bring the CHTs down and stabile. I only replaced one cylinder. Instead of using straight mineral oil, they used a Phillips oil. Watch the oil consumption early on. They will go through oil quickly early on. Nitride cylinders (blue stripe) break in fairly fast. The others take longer. I was told if the oil consumption didn’t stabilize in 10 hours, I may have glazed the cylinder. Oil consumption stabilized for me by the 8th hour. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I was probably one of the last people who took them up on the return option. Last few days of the offer. My delay was whether or not I want to spend the money for the Max or stay with what I had. The Max displays I have seen are crisp and look very much like my ESI-500 display. I’m hoping to tie the downtime in with another avionics upgrade. At least then it won’t feel as painful. [emoji21] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Just changed mine to N46BL, heading over to the Washington FRZ and see what reaction I get.

I went with the return option. I think Aspen didn't plan this out well. They should have done an exchange program instead of allowing returns. They could have used their service pool to begin exchanges and then used the exchanged units to keep it filled. I think they underestimated their turnaround capabilities. It has a big impact on owners and shops who are waiting on them. I don't like hearing people have their planes down for 3 weeks waiting for the units to be returned.

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Forgot to ask you this. Why is your RSM GPS indicator on? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I’m still waiting for the Aspen Max as well. My original date was in September. As for traffic and weather on the MFD, the Lynx 9000+ I have integrates TAS and TIS-B on the MFD. one thing I don’t know about is whether you get textual weather products on the MFD with the Garmin 345. Here is an example being sent over from the Lynx. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Where is Peter Garmin when you need him? I want to know why that Garmin G5’s screen resolution isn’t as good as the Aspen’s! [emoji1787] Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Fred - (I hope you don’t mind me using your first name). I personally don’t think using the Beechtalk model will change things much. I’m sure they still bounce people out for being a jerk. Most of us who have been on the site for a while, know each other not only from MooneySpace but from real live interactions. I think what helped foster this environment were the local Mooney fly-ins, the Summit, the PPPs, Oshkosh gathering, etc. You will notice the people who come onto MooneySpace fall into a category. They may be doing a drive-by (where can I find this part?find a mechanic?) - only never to be seen again. Or maybe a wannabes (I just got my PPL and I have never sat in a Mooney) and the B breakers (where has Peter Garmin been lately?). Those who remain for some time are people who share a mutual interest in this addiction. And all of them I call friends, Andy, Jerry, Alan, Mike, Hunter, Terry, Josh, Dan, Anthony are just a small portion of the MooneySpacers I have met here and then in real life. Heck, I even consider Peter Garmin a friend. Besides, the anonymous nature of the site makes it a little easier for those of us at work sneak in a few minutes on MooneySpace. [emoji1787] I do agree the search capabilities of MooneySpace leaves a lot to be desired. My ADS-B Resource thread is only one of a few of stickies. We see a lot of the same questions over and over again. It would be nice if they were grouped or at least improve the search engine to find stuff. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

You’re a funny guy Bob. [emoji1787] I wish my new ASI made my plane 6 knots faster as well. You may want to check with some avionics shops and Mike Studley at Aspen if they are seeing some start up issues with the new Max platform. My bet is on the calibration. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Bob - when I had the mechanical ASI, the two Aspens and the mechanical always agreed. I suspect the issue is a calibration issue with the Aspen Max. I know when Aspen introduced their products back in 2008, there were some "burn in" issues that required them to be re-calibrated. I think the same has been true for the altimeter portion. I had my Aspen in for one re-calibration for the altimeter a year or so after mine were installed in 2012. They have been solid since.

Something like ANT-1?

I think risk tolerance is a very personal topic and should be set by the individual based on his or her own set of criteria. When I first started flying there were a lot of old time pilots that lived by the Yeager adage "It's the man, not the machine". I remember canceling an IFR flight right after getting my IFR ticket and having one of them say to me, if you can't handle 500 foot ceilings, you shouldn't be flying. Ironically, the same guy ended up running out of fuel and flipped his Pitts upside down on a snow covered field. My risk tolerance is balanced between a healthy respect for the factors involved and the experience I have. Sometimes it IS the machine and not the man...