Today's flight for 2017

[Yetti]

Good stories will be told at church today.  Provided the "jet set" life style to mother in law for her last year's birthday present.   Went picked her up.  Flew her to small Texas town for Lunch and shopping.   Be bopped her back home. 

[Hank]

Looks like she enjoyed it! And like I tell all of my passengers, there's no graceful way to get out from the right seat. 

[kortopates]

My flight today was interesting.  I am headed to KORL from New Orleans estimate 3 hour flight time with good tail winds.   Weather at take off excellent cool temps, clear skies forecast at KORl  is to be to be clear and current conditions are clear.
I get to Ocala area and ATC tells me to expect the visual for 25 just what I was expecting then 15 minutes later KORL is MVFR and ATC is jammed with traffic.
ATC vectoring me for the ILS 25 and I'm about 10 miles away essentially a down wind over KMCO at 3000 the engine starts running a little rough so I enrich the mixture and it goes away.  Now vectored to intercept the glide slope and the roughness comes back as I back off the throttle.  I push the throttle in and it lessens some but comes back when I back off the throttle.  Look at engine monitor and #3 is cold.  i debated about declaring an emergency but at this time I was on final and cleared for the approach.  I stay high once I'm under the clouds keeping more power that normal and we make an otherwise uneventful landing.
Once settled at the FBO I remove the right side cowl cover and my #3 intake tube is dangling no bolts.  I get with the mechanic who happens to be there tel him what is going on and he will look at it Monday.
So time for a beer.  Oh that already happen when we stopped for lunch with the grand kids.
 
Well at least the winds aloft forecast was correct we made it here in 3 hours.

At least that induction leak was easy to find! LOLs - It sucks to loose a cylinder when you only have 4, glad you were headed down on approach


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[Andy95W]

Leaving Orlando yesterday, ATC routed us straight over Cape Kennedy.  I've flown over it before, but never at 8,000 feet.

Had a great view of the Vehicle Assembly Building, Space Shuttle landing strip, and the two Saturn V/Space Shuttle launch pads.

[tigers2007]

I FINALLY had a nice day to fly. It has been like 66 days since I last flew. Went on a mini-air tour around the area and logged a few hours and several landings. Wx was perfect and the bird ran great. I put Mike Busch's theory to test that adding some carb heat would create some turbulence with the induction system. That actually worked perfectly as #4 EGT was like 150 less than the rest. After adding some carb heat it stabilized with the rest.

 

 

 

 

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[Yooper Rocketman]

26 minutes ago, tigers2007 said:

I FINALLY had a nice day to fly. It has been like 66 days since I last flew. Went on a mini-air tour around the area and logged a few hours and several landings. Wx was perfect and the bird ran great. I put Mike Busch's theory to test that adding some carb heat would create some turbulence with the induction system. That actually worked perfectly as #4 EGT was like 150 less than the rest. After adding some carb heat it stabilized with the rest.

 

 

 

 

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Not much ice for this time of the year!

Tom

[tigers2007]

Not much ice for this time of the year!
Tom

Not much at all. According to the logs, Great Lakes Air appears to have been crazy-busy due to the lack of ice bridges this year.

Here's Mackinac Island:


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[Yooper Rocketman]

20 minutes ago, tigers2007 said:

Not much at all. According to the logs, Great Lakes Air appears to have been crazy-busy due to the lack of ice bridges this year.

Here's Mackinac Island:


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Wow!!  Our friends down south probably don't realize normal winter travel to Mackinaw Island is by snowmobile on the ice road.  With nothing but air travel (I doubt there is any boat traffic in the winter) it must be getting expensive for the permanent residents on the island.

Tom

[peevee]

Had an angel flight up to MT this am. Two ladies. Took the front right seat out and put them in the back with a blanket to try and keep them warm. Not much heat at -10F to 0F. 388NM each way direct. Left at 0730 and was back at the home airport by 1230. Flew up at 140 and back at 190, should have went to 210. Oh well. Still a nice little push with some tail winds and not much penalty heading out, which was nice. Half hour or 45 minutes of actual, no ice. Too cold.

It was so damn cold in there I couldn't eat my cliff bar snack. It was too hard to chew. -20F on the JPI at FL190. Had to keep my pen in front of the floor vent to keep it working.

[1964-M20E]

On 2/25/2017 at 6:08 PM, Marauder said:

 

I had a similar incident but mine was the exhaust riser. One of the flange bolts was over torqued leading to a fatigue crack failure and the other nut vibrated off. Let us know the findings.


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All it needed was 2 new bolts and gasket. Went for a test flight and all was good.

Trevor at Exec Aero fixed me right up and the charge was extremely reasonable.  I guess I was just prepared for a higher bill.

[XXX]

57 minutes ago, 1964-M20E said:

All it needed was 2 new bolts and gasket. Went for a test flight and all was good.

Trevor at Exec Aero fixed me right up and the charge was extremely reasonable.  I guess I was just prepared for a higher bill.

Glad you are alright. Still in O-town?

[1964-M20E]

On 2/28/2017 at 9:52 PM, Chupacabra said:

Glad you are alright. Still in O-town?

No I bugged out Wednesday morning.  I'll be back around Easter and most likely for SnF

[jonhop]

Followed the sunset this evening looking for the green flash. Never saw it but got this PIC and a great video of the sun going down over SOCAL... Fly Safe Mooniacs!

[Oldguy]

Made the breakfast run up to KCHA this morning to go to Tupelo Honey. Beautiful clear morning for Mooneys. Heard three others in the sky talking to ATL just in the 35 minutes I was with them. But it was cold for us down here in Alabama. So cold there were icicles hanging off of the engine monitor!

 

[Skates97]

Took a friend flying last Saturday. After a little flightseeing (@Hank, if that word makes it into Webster's Dictionary you should get credit for inventing it) tour of Big Bear I let him take us around the practice area a few times. He told me that is the second time in his life that he has been at the controls of an aircraft, both times were Mooneys. (He has great taste )

http://intothesky.us/2017/02/25/flightseeing/

Took the family to Lake Havasu for lunch yesterday, just need to get the pictures sorted out and write about it. There will be a post coming up this week on the trip.

[EricJ]

12 hours ago, Skates97 said:

Took the family to Lake Havasu for lunch yesterday, just need to get the pictures sorted out and write about it. There will be a post coming up this week on the trip.

Hangar 24?   Love that place, except it's seriously annoying to not be able to drink the beer on a day trip there.

[Raptor05121]

Went to Saint Simon's Island for this BBQ I hear everyone raving about.

 

Best. BBQ. Ever. I am going back...soon! I flew 3.2 hours yesterday. Put her to bed at sunset (and good timing, my landing light blew on my sometime between takeoff and landing). I noticed the ammeter wasn't pegging when I flicked it on.

 

[cnoe]

Went to Saint Simon's Island for this BBQ I hear everyone raving about.


 
Best. BBQ. Ever. I am going back...soon! I flew 3.2 hours yesterday. Put her to bed at sunset (and good timing, my landing light blew on my sometime between takeoff and landing). I noticed the ammeter wasn't pegging when I flicked it on.
 

Time for an LED. No burn-outs and very little movement of the ammeter.


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[Skates97]

2 hours ago, EricJ said:

Hangar 24?   Love that place, except it's seriously annoying to not be able to drink the beer on a day trip there.

I don't drink so not an issue. We have found that brewhouses usually have great food and it's reasonably priced because they make money off the beer.

On a side note, as soon as we stepped up to the counter to order they offered my son a small cup with their rootbeer in it. That was followed quickly by him saying "Mmmmm, this is good. Can I have more?" You have to admire their selling technique.

[Raptor05121]

4 hours ago, cnoe said:

 

Time for an LED. No burn-outs and very little movement of the ammeter.


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Accepting donations via PayPal! I think the $16 replacement halogen will do me just fine. I've done a comparison between the top brand LEDs and I think the AeroLEDS 46LX is the only one that is brighter spot and wider spot than the halogen. The rest are weak pencil beams or so wide you can't get depth. So I want that one, but its $600.

[Hank]

4 hours ago, cnoe said:

 

Time for an LED. No burn-outs and very little movement of the ammeter.


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2nd this! I replaced mine almost 3 years ago, right after the old one worked on preflight at dusk and not on landing 3-1/2 hours later. It's only been turned off once since, after the first hour of my pilot static check inside the hangar. It goes On with the Master, and off again with the Master, no problem starting. 

[Yetti]

Tonight's have to go get some fuel.  160 knots there.   98 and 103 knots on the return.  I think there is a front coming this way.

Oh and I need a gofund me account also.

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[cnoe]

I've done a comparison between the top brand LEDs and I think the AeroLEDS 46LX is the only one that is brighter spot and wider spot than the halogen. The rest are weak pencil beams or so wide you can't get depth. So I want that one, but its $600.

IMHO I'd rather have a bright white RELIABLE low-current led that I can leave on continually than an unreliable halogen current-hog that's rarely illuminated.

This one is currently used by hundreds of pilots with great utility and is effectively identical to the Whelen Parmethius.

https://www.amazon.com/Whelen-PAR-46-Super-LED-Steady-8-DEGREE/dp/B009LQG64S/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1488850901&sr=8-2&keywords=Whelen+par46+led




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[gsxrpilot]

I got a landing/taxi pair of lights from @LANCECASPER. Just keep the originals to stick back in when you take it in for annual 

Like @cnoe said, it's nice to just leave them on all the time.

[bradp]

Some pilots may vouch for that particular bulb bought on Amazon. Wink.


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