Mooney Links and Email Lists

Flight Videos

So far we only have a few, starting with the first video of a Mooney on the web ("Dude's" plane) flying over Straits of Juan de Fuca, near Sequim, WA (9MB) and an approach and landing from the cockpit of N252AK. These are at www.aviating.com/mooney/video/ and require a (free or shareware) driver. (If the videos don't go up on aviating.com, I'll put them here on scn.org)

Mooney Email List courtesy Doug Fields and Akmal Kahn, whose efforts are appreciated by many of us.

search Mooney Email list

With over 20,000 messages, find just about anything from speed mods to convert a Mooney to an inverted Cessna 210 to tail mods (search "mangled")

The search engine linked with a lot of custom software, some written for SGI processors. So it may be down for a while.

Doug Field's Mooney Homepage - http://www.311wc.com/ (probably a dead link) - Doug started the Mooney Email list, but has sold his plane.

www.rifkin.com Alan Rifkin's Mooney links.

www.2pi.com Les Niles' page

I almost forgot.. Mooney Aircraft Corp.

I'm not really familar with their products, however.

Software & Text Instructions

CheapBastard Software

NEXRAD images on PalmPilot VII and other PalmOS units with modems. This software was developed by Les Niles (voice recognition expert) and Ron Gilbert (pioneer in strategic gaming). Freeware.

Aircraft weight & balance:

This is an old shareware spreadsheet, generally considered to be obsolete. It is useful for the purpose of weight & balance calculations on aircraft, and can be kept on one disk with its data. Pilots calculate w&b when when the load configuration is not obviously within limits. Some aircraft have sliding scales for max. weight, making a spreadsheet particularly useful. note Some people have been questioned about w&b calculations on ramp checks. 'Typical' loading charts should be acceptable, but what robocop is going to question a floppy?
Download EZ-Spreadsheet, (taken from version A.13, 1987) 52K.
A newer version is also available (with several beg screens on the shareware), but I prefer the older version for my purposes.
EZX no longer distributes the product.
A MS-Excel file is available at the Bonanza homepage..

IFR Kneepad - PMA Manufacture manual for making a kneepad type IFR chart holder

Airplane Cover - using a domestic sewing machine.

Flight 3.0 (180K)

Flight Planning software written in '88 and '89 by Patrick Roe patroe_DELETE_THIS_TEXT_@pacificrim.net . System requirements: At least 128 K of memory or it runs slow. A windows flight planner with all of the graphics stuff is available as Cirrus, from GTE DUATS (free without the time/speed/fuel calculator)

Download 337 form in WordPerfect format (PkZIP file, requires WordPerfect 5.1 or higher)
A MS-Word file is available at the Bonanza homepage.

Tachometer Calibration Instructions

checklist for break-in

DUATS transcript (7 Kb)

DUATS is an on-line WX and flight briefing system for U.S. pilots. ( GTE DUATS software)

Nav/Com Frequencies which Block GPS Reception

Connecting Cirrus through a proxyserver firewall (Cirrus DUATS software is a dedicated telnet program and does not include firewall support.)

Akmal's Kahn's FAA test preps and flight planner at Mooney Junction

He has test preps for Private, Instrument and Commercial, but you need the written version for the charts (but an old version will do!) It has a nice 'nag' feature for questions you missed. Keep the zip file for repeat reviews. If you use PkUnzip instead of Winzip, you need to insert the long filenames manually.

Sorry, I don't have the British CAA prep, but I do have a morse code trainer of unknown authorship. Minimum requirements: a PC running at least 4 khz and about 200K of memory.

Obtaining an FAA or CAA License in the U.S.A.

Typical Mooney Flights

Here's a typical trip, this one from Sarasota to Kiel, by Karl-Heinz Zahorsky and Jens Riedig.

Carol Ann Garratt's webpage about her trip from Orlando, Florida to Clarksville, Virginia.

General Aviation Links

David Perozek's Mooney M10 Cadet

NASA ASRS form (asrs.arc.nasa.gov/forms/PDF_Files/general.pdf)

I believe this is a two page "easy to print" form for Letter paper. For information, go to NASA description of ASRS.

NASA ASRS Callback

This is a nice summary of common safety issues generated by ASRS. It's short, easy reading, and Worth bookmarking

www.aerolink.com/ aviation link directory

Ipswich Airport

The story of a classic airport by Roger France. Latest is that the Ipswich Council are daftly sitting on their hands while a developer is trying to close their city's airport down!

Aviation@Landings

links to "every" worth-while aviation related site on the Internet - This one is pretty comprehensive.

Santos' airport database

The One Hundred Dollar Hamburger airport database reduced to the essentials

Mile High Club flight reduced to the essentials

Northwest Aviation On Line

Search Form for N-Numbers (This is a "moving target,", so you may have to go to Landings.)

A complete history of human powered ornithopters (Don't worry - it's pretty short). Also has link to "Can we fly with human powered flapping?"

Noise abatement information from www.calpilots.org

www.rsvpair.com - mostly air charters but evolving. I'm waiting for the first Mooney Mustang (or Bravo) to list there with the G-IVs ($5500/hr.)

Excitotoxins (Aspartame & MSG)

DORway site's aviation page - "Say no to aspartame" from www.dorway.com

Article on Aspartame and MSG from The Discovery Group

Canadian General Aviation News I believe by Mary Nash Stoddard

Consumer Information On Aspartame also by Mary Nash Stoddard

"Excitotoxins - MSG and Aspertame" links - a good set of links

David Lawrence Dewey's report on Aspartame

Truth in Labeling Org.

has information on MSG, but no aviation or motor skills references

National Organization Mobilized to Stop Glutamate

unfortunately no aviation or motor skills information

Viagra is not an excitotoxin, although the FAA says Viagra should not be used while flying. See Mile High Club, above.

Alcohol and Aviation, or just the bibliography for those who wish to do research

WX

Seattle WX

Other

Scanning Photos for the Web

From Learn to Program HTML in 21 Minutes. Has suggestions of how to get your airplane pictures to look Mooney-perfect, even if you fly Brand B, C or P. His site pretty much explains how Dude wrote this site.

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