Mooney tells OSH ATC to F off

[DonMuncy]

8 hours ago, bluehighwayflyer said:

I didn't know that we Mooney pilots have a bad reputation, peevee.  Can you elaborate?  I am interested in learning more about how other pilot groups perceive and stereotype us. Thanks,

Jim

I took a tour of the DFW tower facility a couple of years ago, and one of the tour guide folks told me that Mooney pilots had a reputation among ATC people that "they had more plane than they were capable of flying". That was the only time I have ever heard it, and I have no idea whether it is widespread or not.

In any event, it behooves us all if we act with the highest level of professionalism, etc. etc. as possible.

[gsengle]

Sounds more like what ya hear about the Cirrus crowd, that's a new one on me

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[Guest]

One of my clients, who is a retired air traffic controller told me that when a Mooney pilot called there would be two targets on the radar display.  First was the plane and a few minutes behind it was the pilot.

Clarence 

[Hank]

5 hours ago, mooniac15u said:

There are still plenty of Canadian pennies floating around down here.  Should we send you some?

Really. I just got one last month,and it's a L-O-N-G ways from here to Canada!

[DaV8or]

1 hour ago, Hank said:

Really. I just got one last month,and it's a L-O-N-G ways from here to Canada!

I got one the other day here in California. It's pretty clear to me now that those bastard Canadians took all their pennies they had saved up for years in some sort of maple jars and ran down to America to buy stuff once they heard they weren't going to be using pennies anymore in their own country. Fully knowing we were too oblivious to notice the difference.  ...    

[mooniac15u]

We should probably build a wall to stop the flow of illegal Canadian pennies into the U.S.  

[Mark89114]

Not just build a wall and send them all back and vet any further Canadian pennies from coming in.

 

[Marauder]

I thought it was all those Canadian snow birds who filled their planes with Canadian pennies to take advantage of the price of copper in the States. Whatever the reason, it's gotta stop! I'm tired of subsidizing a country where 90% of their population lives within 100 km of our borders!

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[DaV8or]

59 minutes ago, mooniac15u said:

We should probably build a wall to stop the flow of illegal Canadian pennies into the U.S.  

And we'll make 'em pay for it too... in pennies.

[Hank]

2 minutes ago, DaV8or said:

And we'll make 'em pay for it too... in pennies.

Nah, if we all sort through our change for the next few months,mew can build the wall USING Canadian pennies!

[cnoe]

... and we could make the wall decorative to remind them how creative we are.

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[Hank]

3 minutes ago, cnoe said:

... and we could make the wall decorative to remind them how creative we are.

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Now THAT's a bunch of pennies!?

[Jeff_S]

On August 25, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Marauder said:

 

The only Mooney owner reputation that I am aware of is the fact that we are the cheapest bast$#ds of all airplane owners. So cheap in fact that we carry pennies in our pockets that have Abe Lincoln's eyes popping out from us squeezing the penny so hard.

 

Here are a couple I carry around with me:

 

Geez, I thought these were the burnt out valves Marauder saved after running his engine LOP for too long!

[TheTurtle]

folks we have the best pennies.  Canadians are sending us pennies that are old, dirty, corroded and some, I assume,are good.

[Guest]

The Government discovers that they cost more to produce than their face value, they stopped production and distribution.

http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/about-the-mint/phasing-out-the-penny-6900002#.V8Caq3D3arU

Clarence

[Hank]

1 hour ago, M20Doc said:

The Government discovers that they cost more to produce than their face value, they stopped production and distribution.

http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/about-the-mint/phasing-out-the-penny-6900002#.V8Caq3D3arU

Clarence

Our government made that discovery decades ago, we just won't let them stop! They want to do the same with $1 bills and switch us over to ugly, clunky coins that last for decades (vs. ~18 months for paper), and we won't let 'me do that, either.

Who runs the gov't in Canada, anyway--the politicos or the people?

[Guest]

38 minutes ago, Hank said:

Our government made that discovery decades ago, we just won't let them stop! They want to do the same with $1 bills and switch us over to ugly, clunky coins that last for decades (vs. ~18 months for paper), and we won't let 'me do that, either.

Who runs the gov't in Canada, anyway--the politicos or the people?

Interesting question, I assume like the U.S. but to a lesser degree we are governed by special interests and lobbyists who help the politicians with their decisions.

Clarence

[211º]

I've heard that Illinois toll booths still take pennies... Because Lincoln is on them.

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[carusoam]

Lincoln is on the front but the his memorial isn't there anymore. Some one cent shield is there...

(something I learned today)

Best regards,

-a-

[yvesg]

On August 26, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Hank said:

Our government made that discovery decades ago, we just won't let them stop! They want to do the same with $1 bills and switch us over to ugly, clunky coins that last for decades (vs. ~18 months for paper), and we won't let 'me do that, either.

Who runs the gov't in Canada, anyway--the politicos or the people?

Sorry to say: the politicos! 

Yves

[bradp]

Isn't it 90% of the Candian population lives within 62 miles of the border?  :-)

[mooniac15u]

31 minutes ago, Hyett6420 said:

Careful, they might come down and burn the Whitehouse down again!

Yeah, then we might have to go kick their butts in New Orleans again. 

[mooniac15u]

39 minutes ago, Hyett6420 said:

Now thats a bit of history i dont know, explain please......

Well, my history books told me that the Whitehouse was burned by British troops on August 24, 1814.  Since you told me it was the Canadians I figured it must also be Canadians that were defeated in the Battle of New Orleans. 

[Hank]

4 hours ago, Hyett6420 said:

Now thats a bit of history i dont know, explain please......

In 1814, I took a little trip

I went with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.

We took along some bacon and we took along some beans,

And we beat the bloody British at the town of New Orleans.

OH, we fired our guns and the British kept acomin.

There's not so many now as there was a while ago.

We fired once more and they began arunnin'

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

--with apologies to Johnny Horton, who sings it much better than I write it. Google it, it's a great performance, I have ihis greatest hits on CD, even though he was famous before I was born.

Over here, we call it the War of 1812, I forget what ya'll call it over there. Among other things, the Red Coats successfully invaded Washington, D.C. and burned the White House, right after the President evacuated with his family in a big hurry. We eventually won, otherwise we'd have returned to the unwelcoming embrace of the British Empire. I think it was George III's (or his son's) attempt to reclaim the colonies who had separated thirty five years before. But I'm a little hazy on the finer points of  American History.

[PMcClure]

23 minutes ago, Hank said:

In 1814, I took a little trip

I went with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.

We took along some bacon and we took along some beans,

And we beat the bloody British at the town of New Orleans.

OH, we fired our guns and the British kept acomin.

There's not so many now as there was a while ago.

We fired once more and they began arunnin'

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

--with apologies to Johnny Horton, who sings it much better than I write it. Google it, it's a great performance, I have ihis greatest hits on CD, even though he was famous before I was born.

Over here, we call it the War of 1812, I forget what ya'll call it over there. Among other things, the Red Coats successfully invaded Washington, D.C. and burned the White House, right after the President evacuated with his family in a big hurry. We eventually won, otherwise we'd have returned to the unwelcoming embrace of the British Empire. I think it was George III's (or his son's) attempt to reclaim the colonies who had separated thirty five years before. But I'm a little hazy on the finer points of  American History.

I used to love that song!  If I remember history correctly, we own our eventual victory to France/Napoleon who smashed the Brits at sea.