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Really? Why not just send this off to the FAA so they can do a ramp check next time they see your N number. Just maybe we might have one less statistic. What you are doing is flat out wrong and smacks of very poor judgement. Sorry but this is an area that really should not be advertised on this forum as acceptable behavior. Next I'd wonder if you were equally comfortable in trying to take off overweight over a 50' object using the standard POH figures. Seems we had a death last year on this forum (who took several innocents with him) with someone trying to do just what you are subscribing to as acceptable. Knock it off!!!

Morning Shawn, on the vernotherm, the face of the sealing surface should be smooth, no goudges or heavy ware marks. The nut should not move or have any sign of being loose when the the spring pressure is backed off. I guess you could put it in boiling water to see if it moves the sealing surface. I've seen the nuts be loose, and the ware be heavy but it's such a simple system that they usually work. I'd check for maybe an oil cooler blockage, line blockage, or line mix up. - Matt

The problem I have with operating over gross is not that the airplane will suddenly turn into a pile of aluminum. Sure components and things like gear biscuits, fuel tank sealer etc. become stressed and it all adds up, but the airplane will perform. Look at the Missiles at a whopping 3200 pounds. I wouldn't want one but with the exception of increased incidence of nose gear cracks they do ok. The problem I have is that once you place the airplane outside its envelope you enter the unknown. All those performance numbers in the POH suddenly become meaningless and you've just become a cheap test pilot. (see N9154K.) The other thing of course is liability. Say you operate overweight a hundred times but on the one hundred and first, something really really bad and unspeakable happens. You put it down in a school playground on top of some school kids or something. Even if the reason has nothing to do with being over gross the insurance co may turn around and say "Mr. so and so, we are sorry but we did not insure an experimental category aircraft." They haven't done it yet but very well could. You have to ask yourself, is it really worth it?! With some careful planning I bet you'll find that you don't have to do that.

If you have done no mountain flying, try to arrange for some mountain instruction on the east side of the Rockies, and try to time things so you cross in the AM rather than in the afternoon. I have crossed in the morning, mid-day and afternoon, and the morning was certainly the more comfortable. As the mountains warm up, you will get tossed around a bit...be safe and get some supplemental O2 in the event you want more air between you and the earth....and follow the airways.

I flew at 17000 in my j recently and with me 220 and overnight bag and full fuel it was still climbing 300fpm at 17000....ran 155kts at 2700 rpm 80rop, YMMV.

If your father is disabled and needs to fly with you, the Mooney just won't work. My cousin and I recently purchased a Cessna 177RG that was previously outfitted with hand controls as the prior owner had only one leg. We came to find out that the 177 is a popular plane among handicapped pilots for reason of easy entry and exit. They perform well and are not fuel guzzlers; not far from Mooney C model numbers. We got such a great buy on the cessna that we couldn't pass it up. Now we aren't sure what to do with it.

Me too...that's why I don't fly a Bravo.

MSE is also 28 volt instead of 14 volt. Taxi and landing lights in wings not cowl. better equipped, most had HSI. No siamesed magneto. White panel. a lot of small things but over all better. electric cowl flaps.

One of my friend's from high school dad died young, about 45 or so. When he died, they found out they were worth over $100 million dollars. Nobody including the wife had any idea. Maybe if he lived a little, he'd still be alive. We could all be wiped out tomorrow if Yellowstone decides to go kaboom. We've had deficit spending since this country was founded so as long as we don't run out of cotton to print the dollar on, we're just fine. I hate all this doom and gloom. Airplanes were always a wealthy person's game, nothing has changed over last 70 years. And most professionals with good jobs actually get paid considerably more than we used to. It's just that peoples priorities have changed. Everybody now wants a giant house and a Range Rover. We actually don't have a deficit spending at all because we borrow in our own currency. We just have an additional tax, it's called inflation. You all looking at it wrong. Our currency is one of our greatest exports ;-) If people all over the world are essentially willing to accept real negative return to park their money over here, we'd be dumb not to take them. Otherwise, the only choice are higher tax rates. Lower levels of service will simply not happen. As to getting a turbo as your first airplane, I wouldn't. Especially for training. These engines have to be babied. Any Bravo below $200K will require a ton of work to get it to top shape. I spent about $85K making mine 'whole' but I knew what I was getting into. And you don't buy a turbo to fly high as some have stated, you fly high because you have a turbo so it makes no sense to stay low.