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As of today I have owned at least one Mooney continuously for 40 years!

Solar powered no less.

It didn't seem hard to find for me. I called Lasar, they said they didn't have one in stock, but Mooney did. And Mooney drop shipped it to me for $9. Thanks Lasar. And thanks Mooney. It was like the old days.

I’m going to admit I’ve been looking at Cessna turbo 206s lately. I’m sure I won’t enjoy flying one as much as my Mooney but I have a lot of kids and for family adventures it has a lot of utility. In particular the 6 seats, incredible useful load and short/rougher field capability.

Friends don't let friends fly no UGLY airplane!!!!

My method for wrapping servos with tape. Get yourself a steel rod, about 1/8 inch in diameter and about 8 inches long. Wrap one end with electrical tape till it is about 7/16 in diameter. Use this tape dispenser to tape up the servos. It will get into tight places and you can put good tension on the tape. You cannot do that with a roll of tape.

So I will note this. The yellow line that is shown in the photos was covered with black seal coat by the time I arrived about noon yesterday. I had taken the photo on Tuesday at 5 pm. I even commented to a friend asking if he knew what happened. The yellow line is great when you have no other aircraft parked in weird spots. Maybe the pilot was simply following the taxi lines and oblivious to his actions. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Those near are REALLY close to that taxiway. Definitly an exposure. Agree with you on flying into Oshkosh. Seth's incident while being ground guided made me think twice about Oshkosh as a bucket list item. I had flown into Appleton that year. Have done it a couple times, but didn't like the grass tie downs. I have family in nearby Randolph. Oshkosh always seems to be a week with a severe evening thunderstorm. Juice not worth the squeeze for me.

And after all these years, my insurance is still due on July 25.

If you’re a few years from a complete paint, you could always do a sand and shoot on the top side only with a 2k single stage. Not anywhere near labor intensive and still provides a smooth easy clean uniform color surface.

Congrats! Quite a milestone. I hope to get there with the same Mooney for 40 years. I've owned my current M20J for 29 so still a way to go.

They want to make sure your head is going to fit at some point ;)

Gipps GA-8 Air Van. It is not an airplane, it is the box the airplane came in.

They ask me what level of sedation and I say, "I want to be out like a Grizzly getting a radio collar".

Since 1987, I have been married to the same wonderful woman and we have owned the same house. I have owned the same Mooney since 1993. I am afraid to change anything!

I’ve never wrapped my head around that either. Grease seems dumb. l stuck the cleaned chain in a can and hosed it down with paraffin chain lube, worked it in then hung it up to dry. After it was dry, I wiped the paraffin off the surface. The chain looks brand new and is super limber. BTW, that chain is standard chain, you can buy it for cheap on line.

Agreed. did not own it then.

I’m happy to report that enabling the alternate gain settings on the latest software version on my G3X has completely eliminated the porpoising I’ve been dealing with. I took the plane to the avionics shop for my altimeter certification and asked them to use the alternate gain settings we’ve heard about. I was told that I already had the correct version on the G3X but the standard gains were enabled. They enabled the alternate gains settings through configuration mode and on the flight home, the pitch oscillations I had going over were gone. YMMV, but this was the ticket for me.

A fellow Angel Flight pilot flew me to Appleton last year, and from there we bused to Oshkosh. I was there to receive the Distinguished Volunteer Pilot award from the NAA. It was supposed to happen in front of the crowd for the afternoon airshow. But as we got ready to make the walk out to the stage we all saw smoke to the south. It was the gyro/helicopter crash last year, one of five accidents as I understand it. The awards were moved to another area. There are issues every year. Pilots who maybe don't belong in that kind of traffic. That was my one and only voyage to Oshkosh, made me think I would never want to fly in.

wow that's amazing. 15 years here and felt good about that. Hope I get another 25

The Ovation must not have the standard stall detector. It must be a DIY design from Mooney. I will have to take a look next time I'm near an Ovation.

I found it hard to believe too. Nowadays with everybody trying to steal as much as they can from every person on every part and every invoice it felt good to do business the old fashioned way.

Im based at ATW and outside of the grass area where the plane was taxing, its all cirrus lined up with the mains in the grass and the nose on asphalt. I was at my hangar most of the day yesterday and heard nothing about it.

Not only for the M20J owner, but for the other aircraft involved. In 1997 I was visiting family in Minnesota and flew over Fon Du Lac, WI for the day to catch the shuttle bus up to Oshkosh. When I got back late that afternoon to Fon Du Lac as the bus was taking us out to the area where I was parked (grass) I saw people standing everywhere and airplane parts strewn everywhere. An airplane forgot to untie his tail and kept adding power until it let loose. When it did he spun around and took out the nearest five airplanes I believe. My one year old Mooney Bravo was one airplane away from the carnage, but untouched. I almost felt guilty climbing in and leaving . . . almost. . lol. I was very relieved though and thought later about what a hassle it would have been for all of those people to get home and get their claims processed. Steve Myers has a shop over at Oshkosh (Myers Aviation) and I found out years later that he ended up repairing at least a couple of those airplanes. Although it would be fun and an adventure (or airventure) to fly into Oshkosh and stay right on the field, reading about the ground incidents and landing mishaps that happen every year and last year an experimental dropping out of the sky and totaling a Mooney, I am satisfied to pick an alternate way of getting there every couple years to get my Airventure fix. It's fun to watch the airshow, I just don't want to be a part of it. [emoji4]

Could you send me some too, thanks.

Bolder Municipal used to be 1V5 Aurora Airpark for 01V

If it has the GSA 28 pitch trim servo, yes. Basically, if it has the optional pitch trim, it is likely subject to the AD. Updating to the indicated software versions achieves compliance.

Impressive! Congrats. Here's to 20 more.

Differential diagnosis (after doing the p lead stuff above) is to swap out the left side harness. It could definitely be the harness…

Congrats! Wow, that's crazy.

It is a nice perk, Dunkin Donuts for breakfast, a coin laundry if you want it, walking distance to Target…. BUT…. the down side is you are as far away from a shower as you could possibly be. A big down side.

Who did the IRAN?

thank you for this. just to clarify, I'm taking the red tube in the horrible screenshot below, removing it from the connection inside the cowl (which is basically right behind that bundle of white wires), attaching another tube to that tube and sucking? so like this, where the darker red is the additional attached tubing?

I wonder if we could spec a generic label gauge. Or one without a label and without the ears, that comes with the cover off that we could order directly???? They will not sell us the Mooney version, but maybe we can get close enough.

Yea i think 40 years shows he will never step down to a cirrus.

For most of us, I would say you should go ski there! But you probably have lots of great skiing at home!

I enjoy the flyer unfortunately they need more people to write articles, Richard our own, writes nice articles on a monthly basis. For those not familiar to the flyer, the Mooney flyer.com you can check out the archives for more content plus many events, instructors etc are listed.,It’s a nice read D

I had the same thing. Took a file and flattened off the bottom of the tab to take the round out and they easily snap closed and stay that way now.

That part noted at the end of the thread reference by @1980Mooney is the mechanical down stop. In the event of a failure of the down limit circuit, it keeps the motor from overrunning and bending the push-pull tubes. I know it is on the Avionics Products/Eaton actuators. I think it’s also on the Plessey actuators.

I don’t remember if you have an intercooler or not. I think not? If you have an intercooler, then CDT is basically irrelevant. The CDT redline is in the POH for the original factory engine to protect against detonation caused by too hot induction air. If you have the intercooler, then the relevant temp for that purpose is Induction Air Temp (the temp after the intercooler). CDT is the temp before the intercooler. The difference between the two varies depending on the flight regime, but even in a climb with lower airspeeds the temp difference will be around 80 dF and you won’t have to worry about detonation. However if you do not have an intercooler, then CDT is definitely an important redline. I have the intercooler, but I see both CDT and IAT on my JPI930 and can confirm that somewhere around 17-19,000 you will run into the CDT redline in the non-intercooled engine. Even if you do not have an instrument like the 930 that shows both temps, the original intercooler came with a differential temp gauge, needed to be able to use the charts that tell you what MP to use. With a little mental math you would be able to read the CDT and convert it to IAT. Putting in more fuel flow is unfortunately not going to reduce CDT. CDT is a function of how hard the turbo is working to produce a given MP, plus the lack of cooling at high altitudes. It has to run harder at higher altitudes because there is less ambient air to compress. Running into the CDT redline is unfortunately an issue with the non-intercooled engine. The solution would be to install an intercooler, which cools the induction air by quite a bit. I have to say though, it is excellent that you are finding that higher fuel flow and full power makes the engine run cooler in a climb. That is as it should be. But you are always going to see that CDT redline problem around 17-19k so long as you do not have an intercooler. The intercooler gets you to about 22,500 (depends on day temps) before you reach Critical Altitude where the MP begins to fall off even with the MP knob full in.

So I guess if all of GA stopped flying the FAA would shrink and everyone would save money? Or if we started paying a 10% of the cost the airlines would pay 10% less?

I am instructing in a Toga twice a week and don’t think there is another 300HP bird that goes as slow as the Toga It’s not the most stable IFR platform either. For anyone that really needs a HP 6 six seater, IMO you can’t beet the Bonanza A36; especially with the cargo doors and the IO-550 300HP engine that loves LOP. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The problem is not whether it's comfortable or painful... The real problem is what if you like it...

There is no history of rectal cancer on my father’s side (7 aunts/uncles) nor on my mother’s side (11 great aunts/uncles). I have almost 200 living relatives third cousin to great/aunt-uncle. I have a female first cousin who had some pre-cancerous polyps removed, otherwise octogenarians. These days rectal cancer is the cancer flavor, while in years past it was more did you have family history. My intent isn’t to debate it is just to say I had no history and never a health issue. In 2022(52yrs old) I was really tired. I ascribed that to traveling 150+ days a year. Then I had some interesting digestive issues in August. By the time I finally got myself scoped in early November it was stage 4. I sat next to a fair amount of people getting chemo bullshitting and eating Cheezits. A few of them died. You do you, I am not a Doctor but I am a survivor. I have seen people who look better than me at the start melt away in the chair next to me taking chemo and die. If this message saves one person, makes me happy.

My grandfather died of CC. My brother had it and beat it but it was a close run thing for a while. In two instances doctors have removed polyps from me that would have undoubtedly resulted in cancer at some date. So I am a walking poster child for the effectiveness of the procedure. The anesthesia risk is very small because they use propofol, a very clean, well tolerated and short acting anesthesia (unless you name is Michael Jackson). The risk of a perforated bowel is real, but is usually caused by inexperienced and non-board certified physicians who think it is easy. You want to go to a board certified gastro with a large endoscopy operation. They get the big bucks and drive the Porsches because they know what they are doing......but they have to deal with a-holes all day.

I appreciate your mechanical skills, your hard earned ratings, years of experience wrenching, up blocks/down blocks, etc. One day I hope you view health professionals the same way I view your skills/resume and trust their years of teaching, licensing, and experience to keep you and your family safe. Had I been as diligent in my own health as my Mooney’s health, life would be better. All the best David.

I can think of one case that will almost certainly come back quickly, the ruling the FAA made about warbirds, and instructors benefiting from the flights, even if they aren’t paid for instruction. this basically shot down a whole lot of little guys that toured air shows. And was an excellent example of the bureaucracy interpreting the rules the way they want to read them, even when the plain language says otherwise, and has always been interpreted differently. Bureaucracy across the board is long overdue for a stern hand slap.

FTFY. Watching the arrivals last year some people were more than 20 knots off speed. And no, it was not airspeed versus ground speed, I was comparing ground speeds for airplanes following each other. Before you fly into Oshkosh, go out and practice flying the altitude and speed as defined in the NOTAM. And be able to FLY those numbers.

With a cover, it becomes a Schrödinger box.

My wife and I used to fly with our dogs all over the country. We would notice though, as has been said previously, that the dogs would slow down and become a little lethargic at or around 8000 feet so we would stay at or below that altitude. I always would joke that if we wanted them to settle down for some reason, just climb a little higher. But they are good dogs and were quite calm in the airplane. It has been said that the noise in the cabin may bother them. I had a discussion with my vet about the need for hearing protection for the dogs. He stated that dogs hearing is very sensitive to high pitch noises, think about the dog whistle that humans cannot hear. The low pitch engine noises should not be a problem for them, according to our vet. We never used Mutt muffs or any other hearing protection for them and they never acted like they were in pain or discomfort or having any issues with hearing. But, then again, I wish they could talk to me and let me know...