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Contacted Mooney, and they have one side in stock the other will need to be produced with a lead time of a month. If all this works out its nice to see Mooney going the distance to keep our parts supplied.

I've never had a issue, just make sure your parked in a permenante spot, so they don't have to hassle with it. I lock mine to the front wheel. I wish I had the 1000 as its lighter!

All is good this is just my opinion for what it is worth. The regulations allow the owner to change the light lens and reflector for the recognition lights and the wing tip lights and change wiring for the landing light. Well the new LED lights are the light lens and reflector all in one. No mechanic, no IA, no 337 and no FAA just your signature in the log book saying you replaced the light lens and reflector. I’m sure others will disagree with me. Secondly I could be mistaken but only the recognition light is required during daylight other lights are only required for night time operations and I rarely fly at night. Third how many times have you seen the flashing beacon or rotating beacon on a plane in VMC before you have seen the plane itself? I do fly with all my lights on whenever I fly. Other than the landing light I have never noticed the light before the plane at least during the daytime.

Prior to installing AeroLeds landing and taxi lights on my Husky, I did a comparison test: This is the halogen Q4509 sealed beam on the left, the AerLed 36 on the right . . . Q4509 on the left, 55 watt HID on the right . . . This is the AeroLed taxi light (wider beam than landing light) . . . I also compared my AeroLed installation to another Husky with Whelen Parthmeus LEDs at the Root Ranch Husky fly-in in Idaho (across a large dark meadow). The AeroLed totally trounced the Whelen (not surprising as AeroLeds is double the wattage). Aviat provides the option for full AeroLed LED lighting (landing, taxi, nav, and strobes) on new Huskys. LEDs have a number of advantages over other types of lighting, longevity, effeciency, fast rise and fall time (i.e. instant on and off for flashing, wig-wag - - more attention getting). HID can often be flashed too, though you typically have to turn it on steady first, let it warm up, then turn on the Pulselight (or other flasher). Incandescent bulbs have a slower rise time - - not nearly as good at being seen with peripheral vision. Hope the photos work . . . haven't tried posting them here before,

My experience with break in is that the CHTs stabilize in about two hours.

The few shares of Apple I bought, against everybody's advice, when I graduated college in 2000 is what saved my ass when the bank refused to finance my airplane because of something on the title from 1970.

The aircraft may not be in many pieces, but it is not very intact. It looks like (to me at least) it is smashed in mostly a downward direction and little forward momentum. Either it stalled and dropped like a rock, or it hit that little hill right behind it at the wrong time and wrong angle, or maybe the pilot was trying to squeeze a little more out of it to miss the hill and caused the final stall. I don't know, but that is what it looks like to me from what is presented. Either way, there were severe downward forces. I agree with Hank on this one. Those early decisions in a flight, as well as those very last fraction-of-a-second decisions and control inputs, can make or ruin your day, even if you have lots of experience and ratings. Be careful out there!

MY $0.02 repalcing the lights it is not a major change but that is me.

They have funds for make-work BS like this, but not for some busy control towers... go figure. Anyone want to venture a guess as to the union status of the bureaucrat that processed this occurrence?

I keep a very minimalist tool pouch in the pilot's side footwell pouch that along with a couple of small screwdrivers, also contains a small needle nose vice grip. If a handle falls off, i will try to use the vice grip on the shaft. Crude, but it just might be important one day. The bigger tool kit is in the baggage compartment.