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Bernie: You can take that to the point you would feel like
you should just get you a good Mooney and perhaps feel more secure about it all.
I know I did for many a year. You might want to check those out being offered
on eBay, in trade-a-plane and other places and see if you can find
someone to trade with; but, then again, we'd all miss your contribution to the
dream. Of course, once you are feeling secure flying around, you will then want
to start working on that "Tracy" emulation. The feeling of freedom and blazing
the trail, even if just for you and in your own hanger, is addicting. That
answer to the old age why question of because we can is still true.
jofarr
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Yes, flying is a risky business! We all believe we have a better
mousetrap, especially an engineer with 33 years in the turbojet design
business. If I had to do over, I would copy Tracy to nth detail since he has
been very sucessful at it. My installation has worked fine, but believe it
would be safer with Tracy's tried and proven system. My biggest disappointment
has been my lack of confidence in going distant places because I see Ed
rebuilding an engine in LA, Dave hauling an airplane back from N CA to S CA,
and now Chuck for the 2nd time. I know we can and will explain the problems.
The rotary is basically a more dependable peice of equipment, but I was more
comfortable with a Lycoming which I flew to places that were not nice to stop
in such as over Mount Redoubt and Cook's Inlet in Alaska. It is interesting
and it would be fun to have a 3 or 4 to experiment and play around with a
rotary, if you are young and energetic!
More power to all of you who are blazing the future of aviation with
alternative engines, but once again with family and time considerations
believe I would benefit from a lycoming. Do you wish to swap out your 4 engine
for a rotary Charlie? Or is there anyone else out there with a lycoming O-320
who would like to swap installations.
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