BeechTalk - BT - If the Mustang does your mission, it's darn near perfect!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 12:31

Username Protected wrote:

Another useful thread destroyed

:sad:

Haha

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 12:43

Username Protected wrote:

Another useful thread destroyed

This thread was created to allow Chip to promote his business.

He weeds it like a gardener, putting down anybody who disagrees with his opinion, displaying his supposed expertise, so his promotions can continue. He is trying to herd his future customers into a particular mindset that aligns with his views and services. Any deviation from that is to be attacked.

So it depends on whose definition of "useful" you want to use.

Mike C.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 14:22

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First of all, I wish all I had to do was play on Beechtalk all day. We have our normal load of clients, we've been pretty steady for years. I make sure that I have plenty of time to take care of our clients and (try) to keep you knuckleheads in line on Beechtalk!

I consider myself pretty active, been a member for 10 years and have a couple thousand posts. But he's been a member the same amount of time and has 4x as many posts, nearly 8,000!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 14:28

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Agreed. And this isn't the only thread he's used for promotional purposes. He's in the garden pretty much every day, all day, too. Not sure how many current clients he's assisting right now but I hope they realize they're paying him a fee so he can be a top poster on BT!

I consider myself pretty active, been a member for 10 years and have a couple thousand posts. But he's been a member the same amount of time and has 4x as many posts, nearly 8,000!

Bit of the irony there. You are replying to Mike C. and commenting about Chip's 8,000 posts.

Now, mind that Mike C. has been a member for a little over 10 years (similar to you and Chip), and is pushing (real hard) 20,000 posts. Nearly 2X you and Chip combined!

Hmmm. Make of that what you will, but I perceive that the seemingly endless Chip bashing takes away from BT.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 15:13

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Now, mind that Mike C. has been a member for a little over 10 years (similar to you and Chip), and is pushing (real hard) 20,000 posts. Nearly 2X you and Chip combined!

That is what happens when you try to answer threads helpfully instead of creating them for promotional purposes.

Chip has created 207 threads, I have created 108 threads. I have about 3 times the posts as Chip.

Thus, I am 6 times more likely to answer a thread than to create one as compared to Chip.

Mike C.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 16:52

Username Protected wrote:

That is what happens when you try to answer threads helpfully instead of creating them for promotional purposes.

Chip has created 207 threads, I have created 108 threads. I have about 3 times the posts as Chip.

Thus, I am 6 times more likely to answer a thread than to create one as compared to Chip.

Mike C.

Mike, you provide some great answers and have great experience. But your post count comes from the fact that you are six times more likely to jump into a thread about a 340 being stolen and mention how your Citation V locks are great.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 17:00

Is the Mustang darn near perfect?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 17:09

Username Protected wrote:

Is the Mustang darn near perfect?

Quite simply, as a matter of fact, perhaps it is darn near perfect.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 17:34

It's darn near perfect, but not perfect. You know what's perfect? A B55 Baron. If it does your mission, it IS perfect!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 17:41

Username Protected wrote:

Now, mind that Mike C. has been a member for a little over 10 years (similar to you and Chip), and is pushing (real hard) 20,000 posts. Nearly 2X you and Chip combined!

That is what happens when you try to answer threads helpfully instead of creating them for promotional purposes.

Chip has created 207 threads, I have created 108 threads. I have about 3 times the posts as Chip.

Thus, I am 6 times more likely to answer a thread than to create one as compared to Chip.

Mike C.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 19:50

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It's darn near perfect, but not perfect. You know what's perfect? A B55 Baron. If it does your mission, it IS perfect!

I’m dealing with a cohort of people who won’t fly with me and my turbo normalized 36. They want faster, I want less worry about ice. One of them wants the promise of an emergency potty if necessary I think I could get one of those with a baron.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 21:46

Logged 6.5 hours today bouncing around the US mentoring a client in the Mustang. Grand Canyon and Salt Lake pictured here. Only had about 10 minutes of tailwind over 11 hours of flying in 2 days.

-The Citation Jet Exchange

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 22:12

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One of them wants the promise of an emergency potty if necessary

This is a game changer.

When the kids were younger it was used on every flight. It's much less frequent now but still used by both kids and adults on maybe 25% of flights.

Unplanned stops aren't fun.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 23:29

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Unplanned stops aren't fun.

Especially from 40,000 ft.

I have a whole room dedicated to biology, with dividers, even.

I did modify my "flush" toilet to be a dry system, however. That blue toilet fluid has cost owners $millions in total with corrosion fixes. Saved 15 lbs, too.

Mike C.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 May 2025, 23:30

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Is the Mustang darn near perfect?

I think so. Would be #2 on my list if it were only still being made. I worry a little about planes that are orphaned. Hard enough to get replacement parts these days with supply line issues for planes that are still being made. How many extra engines are out there for the fleet? Not being made anymore.. Correct?