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  1. Good group of Mooney fans gathered for grub.
    7 points
  2. I wouldn't worry about it but definitely keep an eye on it. That's just me, though. If it concerns you excessively, resolve to replace it at your next annual and monitor it until then.
    5 points
  3. Pending pre buy, this baby is mine! All logs are present from day 1. Paint is probably an 8. Interior 7. Wheel wells clean as a whistle. No corrosion evident anywhere I could get to without pulling all the inspection panels. Flew like it was on rails. Put it in a bank and let everything go, it just went hands off. Trimmed for cruise at 24/24 was close to 170mph indicated at 3000msl. No play in the empennage. Speed brakes worked perfect. Did a few touch and goes. Lands nice. It just looks really good. Belly was clean and dry. No oil drips anywhere. I'm excited!
    5 points
  4. For those of you who don't follow the Bugs and Suggestions forum, I've put together a map with pins indicating the approximate location of MooneySpace members. There are currently 99 members listed on the map. Most of them are in the US of course, but there are also some in Canada, Australia, and the UK. To get access to the map, you'll need to be listed on the map. To be listed on the map you need to have either a City or Airport listed under your avatar. The map will have a pin in your town or city, not specific airport. The map only lists screen name and city. No other information, personal or otherwise is listed. The purpose of the map is simple. When traveling to an area of the country, you'll be able to see which MooneySpace members are in the area and will have a screen name you can contact via private message here on MooneySpace. The map is searchable by screen name or city. This is not an official MooneySpace feature, just a personal project of mine. It was suggested by @Roger O and I've had assistance from @RLCarter on this project. If you have the link, please do not share it to protect the privacy of the members. If you'd like to be listed on the map and have a link to the map, send me a message or respond to this thread. Enjoy...
    3 points
  5. Thanks - Good discussion though it's clearly a split opinion on the immediate future of this particular tire. I'm gonna order a new tire and tube and keep an eye on the spot for now. If the spot doesn't progress rapidly, I'll get it swapped when it has to go to the shop for another reason. I'd love to learn how to change it myself, but the added cost of buying my own jacks and a tail weight seems a little impractical at this point. BTW this thin spot is likely my own dang fault and likely resulted from an incident that is a bit of a wake up call after getting increasingly confident in my short field skills. It turns out that being on speed 95% of the time is not good enough. And not going around at a short field after finding oneself at 85mph over the threshold comes with far greater liability than the cost of a tire and tube replacement - I depleted some luck reserve on that one.
    3 points
  6. Frank @N9495V sold me a CDI so I took the chance to fly out to meet him at KPSP. Brought along a friend for the ride. Had a great flight out and back. Frank met us at the airport with curbside service with his lovely wife and took us to lunch at some hippie place where the tofu actually tasted like chicken. Ended up taking up way to much of their time chatting about planes and boats and travel. Turns out my friend had almost bought a plane from him years ago and slept on his couch one night. Small world!. Atlantic at PSP didnt charge a tiedown fee even though I didnt buy their gold plated 100LL (thanks Christina) but Im pretty sure that was just my boyish charm that won her over. Always nice to meet people in the mooney family and it was a great day for a flight. Thanks again for lunch Frank. And thank your wife for putting up with Stan and I. hopefully well see each other again soon.
    3 points
  7. Sorry I missed you guys today; but because of the marginal weather it seemed like the right thing to do. Instead Eli and I stayed closer to home making the 48nm flight to Houston Executive to check out the shiny new aeroplanes. Eli really liked the new Acclaim Ultra but even though today is his 5th birthday they wouldn't let him climb inside to get a feel for it.[emoji53] Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
    3 points
  8. Do we use them ALL the time, why should we I know my plane, really. Lesson 1- use your checklist for everything **a trip from Gulfport Ms. to Wilmington,De, a mere 905 kmiles no problem. Weather checked, plane checked, pilot well ok, let's pack and go 7:00AM local departure time. Wife a little out of sorts don't worry we'll leave a little later. Ok off to airport, went to pay for fuel oops we didn't fill you up Mr B, ok fill it up. Preflight plane packed go pay for fuel, it's a little later I wonder if those storms will stay west of our course? Ok we're going, get CRAFT from the nice tower guys, use my takeoff checklist, my wife closes the door, that's not on my list, I fumble a little, Gulfport tower 423PS ready for Runway 14, all's good ----silence, not really first time for everything--- Gulfport tower aaaah my doors open, I'd like to return, left traffic cleared to land, jeez I never landed over 3200 lbs. I'll carry more power, wow lands nice and soft heavy. Close door, pump it up following my door procedures, Fran don't touch the door I'll get it. Lesson one use your damn checklist. Lesson 2 use your checklist for everything **Ok Gulfport tower is it ok to stay here on 14 until I check my door, sure no ones coming in, get back to me when ready, boy Fran she's a nice lady. Gulfport tower 423PS ready to go 14, your still in the system cleared for takeoff. GD the stall horns blasting I'm a weak old man now, using my muscles, well what's left of them, crap I didn't trim the plane,or use my departure checklist for departure. Got it re-trimmed off we go. Did NOT use my checklist for after landing, just hurried up Only 5 hours to go, lot's of time left to ponder what went wrong, why and what could in the next 5 hours. Luckily nothing out of the norm. After 30 years of flying, we're still learning, need to adhere to all our experience, all of our training and especially those lifesaving damn Checklists. Lesson learned use your damn CHECKLIST Anything you all can provide by not useingn of those things.
    2 points
  9. There's a couple. With cast air release vinyl with pressure activated adhesive (no 'memory' and micro air release channels) I do it like this: Rolle Pro For cast vinyl with pressure sensitive adhesive with no air channels, I use this around rivets to release the air, heat the vinyl, and then press it down with either a rivet brush or a rivet setting foam pad. rivet brush rivet pad Obviously, the Rolle Pro technique is orders of magnitude faster because you can do an 8' row of trailer rivets in a few seconds.
    2 points
  10. Ahh, rivets are easy. We wrap semi-trailers all the time that have hundreds upon hundreds of rivets. You just have to have the right tool and it's very very fast. The vinyl we use conforms easily and doesn't 'lift'. Also, I wouldn't be wrapping the entire plane, just adding some graphics, so I wouldn't have to hit every rivet. The loose rivet issue, I could see. I wonder if the vinyl would start failing in the area where you have a 'smoking' rivet? I guess, if it's legal, worst case is I could do it, leave it on for a few months, then remove it to see if anything was 'off'. Literally it would take me only a few hours to do the graphics I'm interested in. Here's a couple pics of stuff I've done. The Tahoe was black when we started, and as you can see, I even wrapped the wheels. The RV was tan.
    2 points
  11. Very nice story...Ive had many dealings with the mennonites. All have been genuine and honest. I sometimes wonder who has the better lifestyle with as crazy and hectic ours can be.
    2 points
  12. That tire has a lot of life in it. I had a partner once and I could tell how many landings he did by the number of flat spots on the tires. If I replaced the tire on every flat spot I would be doing it weekly. Remember, the brakes are only for hold short lines. Land short and slow. The goal is to not use brakes on the runway, but if the end is rapidly approaching, do what you have to do.
    2 points
  13. Stopped in for lunch at Winterhaven today. I saw that their restaurant had re-opened recently and wanted to give it a try. Food was "very good" to "great". My wife had the Club Sandwich and commented that she thought that it was better and less expensive than the Club Sandwich at The Hangar at Albert Whitted (KSPG). I had my usual plain hamburger, medium well bathed in ketchup and some fries. The burger was very pleasing and I only ate about half the fries as I was full. The fries were really good too. They were not busy but we were there early for the lunch crowd. The service was very good and one of the Managing Partners even stopped by our table to welcome us. Good lunch! You guys should give it a try sometime.
    2 points
  14. If you can't see any cord, you are good, in my non professional opinion.
    2 points
  15. Preach it, brother!! Points 1, 2 and 3 are right on the money. When it comes to hats, I have a John Deere ballcap that lives in the plane as backup. The hat you are talking about is my warm, wool winter hat. This is my "cool" hat, or part of it, the ventilated crown didn't make the picture . . . . These were taken on Plane Ride Day at our airport. The front seat pax is wearing my first headset, good for a two-hour headache that, as a newbie, I thought was from altitude. Now I know better. If you have a good excuse for getting out of the plane with your Halos on, please let me know--I've tried several times, I can get out the door but can't stand up.
    2 points
  16. I got a better picture of our indefatigable organizer.. Thanks Mitch!
    2 points
  17. I love my Halos. No more clamping headaches in a couple of hours, they don't get noisy when I put on sunglasses, and they fit with every hat! I use the molded silicone plugs, and gave away the foamies. They come with two styles of foam tips and at least one silicone version, so it's easy to find one you like. I've had legs approaching 5 hours and days of 7 hours with them, zero complaints! Try it, very few people don't like it. Much, much better than ear buds, which hurt my ears, as you only put the foam or silicone plug in your ear, not the whole speaker. And the company is owned and operated by a Mooney pilot who happens to be a PhD Audiologist . . .
    2 points
  18. NPTS 3-track GPS groundspeed method at a few different altitudes and a few different days outgh to quantify it within a knot or two.
    2 points
  19. I use Johnsons Baby Oil. It is soft enough for a baby but tough enough for an IO-360.
    2 points
  20. Great turn out! @Flash, @Steve W, @MooneyMitch, @jonhop, @wishboneash, @N803RM
    2 points
  21. Milk run to Waley World. Never thought when I was learning to fly that my primary mission would be shopping but hey it really makes sense considering where we live. No matter it's still flying and beats the crap out of driving.
    1 point
  22. Here's a couple of other shots. It is nice slipping into the left side in the longer door without having to do the Mooney 360 degree across the seats. Sorry I missed you CNOE. I would have remembered your beautiful dog. Russ
    1 point
  23. Not my picture, but this is what trailer rivets look like after using a tool like the rolle pro. And trailer rivets are MUCH larger and taller than most aircraft rivets.
    1 point
  24. Another reason to land 'on speed'. With flaps down, on the ground... ground effect is pretty strong. The Mooney is pretty light on its feet for a while. It doesn't take much brake pressure to lock up a wheel or two. Hmmm, with a slightly flat spotted tire... it meets the AW to continue to use it. It also has enough meat on it for maximum braking experiments if you are going to replace them.... PP thoughts only... not a CFI. Best regards, -a-
    1 point
  25. 1) I had difficulty with the phrase 'soaks into metal'. Really? If it soaks into the metal, the metal would swell... somewhat uncontrollably... The places it would soak into would be the intra-granular regions, first. So if the cam releases granual bits into the oil, this could explain why... who are they over-simplifying this for? 2) another thing to keep in mind... strong active chemicals use a carrier to help distribute the active ingredient. An inactive carrier that blends easily with the oil makes it easy to deliver to the right spot without accidently missing the target. A small spill only loses a small amount of the active ingredient. This methodology is very similar to tablets of medication. The active ingredient is usually only a few percent of the whole tablet. The rest is a carrier, a coating, some color and a shape, for various reasons... don't fear the 99% carrier too much. But it is adding a pint of carrier that isn't neccesarily helpful to your previous choice of oil... 3) select your favorite additive, ask your favorite oil supplier to include it in your favorite oil...? This way you get the benefits of the right carrier to deliver your active ingredient without any measuring required... 4) Marketing... Without marketing, good products often can't reach all end-users... With marketing, crappy products often get too far... With crappy marketing, a good product gets ignored by many end-users... 5) it takes an organization like aviation consumer to hopefully demonstrate some value for these products. Did they do an adequate job? PP observations only. Best regards, -a-
    1 point
  26. For what it's worth, Mike Busch's take: "As a general rule, if the damage is deep enough to expose fabric or cord...the tire is unairworthy and should be replaced before further flight." https://www.avweb.com/news/savvyaviator/The-Savvy-Aviator-12-Tire-TLC-188586-1.html Personally I'd make sure to have a replacement available and just check that spot every pre-flight (in addition to the other side and making sure the brake wasn't hanging). No need to replace it until it gets worse, though it's reasonable to do now if it makes one more comfortable.
    1 point
  27. Personally I would replace because it is easy/cheap to do yourself and better then blowing a tire in the middle of nowhere which will be very expensive. Even with no brakes Mooneys are susceptible to scuffing because the wing keeps flying after you contact the ground. If there is a decent cross wind it can slide the plane across and scuff. It is also critical in my opinion to dump the flaps before hitting the brakes. If you touch the brakes with full flaps unless the plane is almost stopped you are going to scuff. i just use cheap tires and tubes and replace whenever needed (keep a spare handy).
    1 point
  28. I'm sorry to say that in spite of his fondness for Mooneys Eli was actually looking for something even bigger than a long-body. Trying to keep it affordable he tried on the Piper M350 but even that didn't suit him. Eventually he settled on the Pilatus PC12 which he found quite accommodating and roomy. Sadly his dad cannot afford the fuel, not to mention the airframe. P.S. I found it interesting that in spite of Mooney earning certification of the new plane, this one (serial no. 0001) is still registered as an "experimental". Understandable though. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
    1 point
  29. People would do the earplugs plus back when I was on the pistol team. I tried it once or twice. I did not like to be inside my head that much. You can hear your heartbeat and breathing. Try it with some foam ones. You should still be able to hear people talk.
    1 point
  30. Closeup of the pinched lead, worn completely through the shielding: And the bends on the top plugs under the doghouse: This is why I ordered the new harness with 90° tips! Plus lots of general wear, cracked / split covering, etc. One step at a time.
    1 point
  31. Keep flying and watching it! If you don't like it change it. -Matt
    1 point
  32. According to the Goodyear guidance, the tire is still good. I would probably order a tire and tube in the next few weeks to have handy because the wear is getting close. Store the tire/tube in a controlled environment, not the hot/cold hangar. Check your tire before/after every flight.
    1 point
  33. Might as well leave the detail in place, Bill. Somebody will be looking for the same detail, down the road... Best regards, -a-
    1 point
  34. Even my wife laughed at your wit!! Great photo, Yves. She looks ready to ride in your awesome machine!
    1 point
  35. Marauder to the rescue! Now that Kool hat will stay on better. Best regards, -a-
    1 point
  36. I'm going to go out and do some actual flying and some hardcore data collection before my airplane goes in. I have a 75F and have a pretty good handle on temperatures and speeds but I want to be able to replicate the conditions when the new mod goes on.. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
    1 point
  37. I'll bet airplane photos will appear soon! Such a fun day putting faces and live bodies to Mooneyspace names. I do believe everyone enjoyed their flight and enjoyed the day. Again, we're open to location destinations for future Mooney flights.
    1 point
  38. These are crazy-bright. My employer uses these on their whirlybirds. Much brighter than the fixed-wing GA versions. They do have a much higher profile thus would impose a higher speed tax. Too bad they're only 28V. I'd love to see two of these on Raptor's (he has a dorsal beacon...) to flash in sequence like a 757. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
  39. I might not be the only Mooney in Oregon, but I know I'm the only registered one in Grant County:) Someone should get board and come visit our little airport. I'll buy a drink and dinner:) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
  40. I have used rubber ear plugs with very good results even on non ANR headsets. The only issue is that the radio volume needs to be raised. I recommend these ones. When I insert them all the way in I can hear my tinnitus tone even with the engine running on takeoff power.!!! Definitely works better than the $1000 solutions for just $4. http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/pspages/14-00157.php?clickkey=3008573 José
    1 point
  41. As long as the springs are compressed you are good. The preload numbers are a cross check not the number to aim for.
    1 point
  42. Thanks for looking at the Belox aerobatic aircraft. i am the designer and builder. we have only produced about 10, but that represents about 20 manyears of work! A few months back I attended a Formation flying event with Mooney pilots in Yuma, Az. My son and I had a ball.
    1 point
  43. The Turbo bearings are pretty close to where the exhaust gas turbine is... it sees nearly EGT temps... depending on how your EGT is measured... The M20C circulates oil through the exhaust valve guides... it sees nearly EGT temps... Coked oil in the valve guides results in stuck valves. I think oil in an M20C lives a really tough life for the Same reason it does in a turbo'd engine. Funny thing... every now and then a discussion pops up regarding how to Best cool these particular parts prior to shut down... There isn't a good way to measure the oil temp in the valve guides, but hot CHTs should be avoided prior to shut down.... Oil degradation temps are near the red line on the oil temp gauge... pretty low compared to EGTs that the valve sees... Both Time and temperature are required to break an oil molecule. The hotter it gets the less time it takes to break.... Note on camguard... one of its famed functions is the ability to Keep oil from dripping off the cam. This applies equally well to Turbo bearings and valve stems... probably has nothing to do with temperature resistance of the oil to keep from breaking down. There isn't a disadvantage to changing oil early and often, other than the cost.... Best regards, -a-
    1 point
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