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Hey to clarify I'm in the camp of do cockpit chores once the plane is slowed down to taxi speed, not necessarily clear of runway and stopped....

As jimmy alluded to, the mooney is a plane where if your 3kts fast and pitch up a couple degrees, as if attempting to flare, it will literally go back up several ft, especially in ground effect. If slowed down it lands like the others. I think many pilots are use to 172s and pipers where they...

I offered the advise of not retracting the flaps on roll out because a couple mooney pilots and I also did it. For the squat switch to work, the plane has to be slowed way down to transfer a significant portion of weight to the mains. Don't ask me how I did it but I was flying 300 hours a...

That's good news! Glad your past the first filter cutting episode! I didn't on this one but on the next I will cut the filter at prebuy I think......

Do you actually fly airplanes or just troll around looking for arguments? If a commercial captain did that in the simulator .....it would be the end of the ride.

It was probably a younger flight crew and they also probably started every radio call with "xyz with you at....."

We debated this for sometime over on Mooneyspace then a 747 captain weighed in and explained they don't retract flaps until after clear of runway. A mooney is a plane where any excess speed will cause significant floating, even in a mooney if numbers are crossed at correct speed it won't...

Agreed.....manual mixture will let a pilot get better efficiency than fadec....take for example the Porsche Mooney, it never got better mpg than a current Io360 200hp. In a car FADEC makes sense as the power settings are always changing, in a plane as we know it's stays steady most of the time.

Yep that's about it.....the unfortunate part is there is on the certified side there is no competition for Lycoming as they are the sole mfg. Superior makes a experimental cylinder. The parallel valve has several competitors driving the price down. I will say the io-360 200hp, with power...

Compression.....the 200hp has 8.7 compared to 8.5. It also angular valve design vs parallel, so the cylinder replacement cost is $2,350 vs $1,200!

Arnt you cute.....

Ya..,.sure with 60kts on the tail! That's 3.8gph per engine. Impossible....a mooney J model which is the peak of efficiency will do that speed and fuel burn but that's at 12,000ft. Ya know it takes almost 2gph to idle a io360....

DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING UNTIL SLOWED to taxi speed or clear of runway. Airlines don't let there pilots do anything that isn't essential to landing until taxi speed or clear of runway. In a retract plane the chance of lifting the gear up instead of the flaps is very real and yes there are a lot...

I just uploaded a pic of my cam after sitting for 2 weeks with a big drop of straight 50w oil still clinging on the cam lobe.... Oil drains back from everywhere over time, but one thing is clear that heavier weight oil protect better against corrosion by staying on the parts longer.

1. My 200hp io-360 has choke cylinders....and in reading it sounds like most cylinders modern airplane engines do. 2. Mike Busch displayed numerous pictures showing evidence of piston to choke/taper clearance contact. Obviously there is no way of telling if they went to full power after...

Enroute IMC is ok for me but if the airports along my route are Low IMC and if I'm in my single engine plane, I'll cancel the trip. Consider if the engine quits you have very little options of where to land when you glide out of the soup at 200-400agl. No problem with Enroute IMC, just want...

If it's below 40 degrees and your starting with unpreheated 50w oil your doing damage. As forane described the oil actually cavatates at the oil pump as its to thick to get sucked in. Not good for oil pump either. Also the other reason for preheating is to keep from scuffing the cylinder...

Well....duh...but the heavier the weight, non-synthetic oils stay on days longer. In fact on a io-360 after shut down it take 2 days for 1/4 quart to come back to sump and up to 7days for the 3/4 of a quart to return to the sump. I've ran 15-50w semi-syn oil and after about 2 days it's all...

Here is a good write up from Ed at Camguard on why he steers clear of semi-synthetic aviation oils. http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=109023&page=2 Seems in some of the threads some have been running it with good success, but they appear to be folks who fly a lot of...

Mike Busch is one smart cookie....if you wanna read more google Ed kollins of camguard, he used to be the head chemist for most of the oil companies at one time or another. If I remember right shell plus has $.10 per quart of additive that makes up the "plus" part. Camguard is great stuff..anti...