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Hi there. For those interested - warranty and parts back online at Kerrville Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

On the ILS into Montgomery field (KMYF).

Had my first flight of the decade today. Started terribly on this beautiful clear day. I had to fly down to Rockford IL (via Iron Mountain) to look at a E-LSA taildragger for sale. Of course, my GSM switch to my engine heater worked great BUT I didn’t have it plugged in! So I fired up the diesel tube heater after replacing the clogged nozzle (just happened to bring the new part with me) and pointed it at the engine from under the wing toward the cowl flaps. While that was going on I realized I didn’t install the tire chain set on the PowerTow. No problem — I’ll use my ice cleats to pull it out as there is an inch of solid ice with loose dry slippery snow blowing around. The rubber portion of the ice cleats were so bad they both ripped. I finally took the time to install the chains; took a solid 40 min after deflating the Powertow’s tire. Of course I was breathing in unburnt diesel fumes. I hook up the PowerTow and crap! The tire comes off the rim because I didn’t inflate it back up! Took me about 20 min to get it to seal on the bead. Oh man what a day! The flight South was extremely smooth. The airmet Tango didn’t have us experience any turbulence at all. The most disappointing part was that we left very late and couldn’t stop in Janesville for lunch at the on-site diner there. Everything else went smooth after such a rotten start. Logged 5.6 hours! Recognize this airport? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Then explain how most Cessna 177s sell for more than a Mooney of the same age and condition? This site is NOTORIOUS for self defecating on our plane’s values. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Incidentally, the newest Ovation Ultra off the line delivered just a couple of weeks ago is also drop dead gorgeous and painted by Jonathan at Plane Schemers. Pay no attention to the other planes in the stable with similar paint schemes and tail numbers....

Our girl, Strava.

A few months ago (before I was kicked off the Mooney Pilots Facebook group for having an opinion on a Mooney-related topic), the new folks at MAPA said they were hard at work building important critical things useful to Mooney pilots. They said their highest priority was to create an Internet forum where Mooney issues could be discussed to replace the email list. I said “hey you know there’s already a super active Internet forum called mooneyspace wouldn’t it make more sense for MAPA to get involved in that instead of spending limited resources creating a new and duplicative forum.” The silence was deafening. Anyway did not exactly make me want to send them money.

I think that's probably the case, Andrew. That would also explain why one modification (the Missile, IIRC) is allowed the higher weight, by STC, without having the thicker tube.

Troy is his name, no it wasnt at Osh, and your wish is my command! The inside is really nice! Troy and his wife picked out the scheme and colors, and Jonathan McCormack in Gadsen, AL did the custom paint. It is the fastest Mooney I have flown.

My guard dog is Otis. If someone broke into my house they might trip over the dog. Good Boy!!

Looks like you have her trained better than I do!

Sit up Strava... -a-

Some positive developments at the factory this week. Several cars in the parking lot and several employees have been recalled. No aircraft production or service going on, but working on something. Let’s hope there is a plan to do something profitable and create jobs for the Kerrville community.

Just got him today. My daughter nemed him Mooney which seems to fit. He is an Australian Sheppard and is supposed to be smart, quick, hopefully efficient and he has a different tail.

As you can see in this prog chart, there's a significant weather event unfolding in the central and southern Plains in the overnight hours with not a single cold or warm front nearby. Pilots are often taught to focus on frontal systems as the key weather makers, when in fact, it's a lot more complex than that.

I have our regional CADORS / accident incident reports emailed to me. Sometimes they’re worth a good chuckle. This one is especially Canadian

These guys don’t mess up w&B to much..Cruise Missle, Rocket launcher and Crash died., named cruiser and rocket after , The Mooney Missile and Rocket., the older two were crash and burn.

As I spat in the wind, it all came back. You're correct, I can totally see now that a sim-based practical being absolute mayhem as it totally introduces the opportunity for those moments they want to push the testing even further -- all that wouldn't happen done in a real aircraft. My PPL DE seemed to be getting ill during the practical and she had me put it down. My reward for a once-in-a-lifetime-perfect-short-soft-field-carrier-deck-landing got me a white piece of paper.

I liked President George W Bush Please do not start a political debate or this thread will be shut down immediately, I'm sure). But one of my pet peeves of his was his pronunciation of Nuclear. He would pronounce it Nucular. Where in the word NUCLEAR do you see the extra U that would cause one to pronounce it Nucular? Used to bug the crap out of me. Then I found out that particular pronunciation is listed in Merriam Webster as a variation in pronunciation of the word. I still can't stand it. Not sure of they had it in there all the time or added it because the President used it...

I’ve been flying Mooneys for 35 years. This is new behavior. I think it has something to do with the general downfall of the FBO system and the big FBOs taking over all the airports.

Looks like Oshkosh. Camping there now could be done sans an air conditioner!! Tom

IR is the following: - Procedures, rules, regulations. Attitude instrument flying, partial panel, how to fly an approach, how to read and brief an approach, how to get a clearance and understand what it means, what do do when you lose comms.. - Familiarity with your airplane and its equipment for the above - Judgement & decision making (comes with real flying, x-c training) SHOULD you go, how much gas to take, and what is your plan B/C. This is different from learning the regs. Understanding ATC (real world) and the IFR 'system'. - Multitasking.... time-slicing your tiny brain which will lose most of its IQ when trying to divide attention between all of the above. A sim is great for the first one, poor for the second, marginal for the third, and will help for the last one. And like the one above said, you can hit reset and try something again, rather than going through the motions to set up for another approach or hold entry burning fuel and instructor time. Go go get a good CFII And use that sim til the weather improves, then move to your airplane.

When people ask me what kind of plane is a Mooney, I describe it as a Porsche with wings! I love Mooney’s and Porsche’s.

No kidding! In Branson MO, the line guys almost wanted to fight over it. I asked them if they were going to leave the plane where it was or move it. They said they were going to move it to a tiedown and pointed to the tiedown. I got in the plane to taxi over to the tiedown and they were getting in my face telling me I wasn't allowed to park the plane myself. I did anyway and they followed me to the tiedown and kept telling me I wasn't allowed. I ignored them.

And for our friendly Brit, those are Imperial measurements as promulgated around the world by the British Empire, not those funny "metric" things pushed so hard for so long by the French. So it's 0.049" wall thickness tubing, likely the same outside diameter as the thinner 0.035" wall tubing.

... that’s nice but I don’t want ... or need... breast augmentation surgery. I think my breast are just fine the way they are. But I do like that turbo prop bonanza.

Well according to the IPC snippet that @Oldguy posted it was .035 for 2740 lb gross and increased to .049 for 2900 lb gross. Skip

Nice job suppressing the price of Mooneys! Remind me to not advertise on here should I ever sell. Someone puts a nice example up for sale and you guys go on the attack!

my motto is buy high and sell low. I'll wait for the next recession to sell my plane.

Airplanes do not sell like this. When you get to 100,000$, you start looking in a different class of airplane all together. Again with M20J models when they get to $200,000 you don’t look at J’s anymore you look at A36s or something. And at 400k you dont shop for a 1978 A36 you get a new Cirrus or a SETP. All of these over improved “forever” airplanes have one thing in common, they can’t sell for nearly what they cost to build. Which is why people don’t build them very often like that. Jet for the seller, but if everyone can just go buy an airplane and over improve it, then add up all the receipts for it and list it and sell it for that, then it will be a viable model and I would do it too. It just makes me cringe when people rationalize something by saying well look how much it cost to build....of course he has to get that much for it. Not really. But I don’t think that the world is ready for $125,000 M20C. But there are some fools out there.

This is a one-off airplane. Take an average C and do all of what he did and see if you don't have much more than that into. All of the LASAR mods aren't listed in the ad - they ad up fast. Granted, everyone would do it a little differently. If you take an average $35000 C start adding the Aspen with G5 backup $12000, GARMIN GTX345 $6000, SL-30 NAVCOM $3000, STEC 30 $8000, Tanks re-sealed $7000, Paint & Interior $20000, Garmin 530W + Flighstream 210 $9000, Speed Mods $15000-$20000?, etc, etc, etc. If the rest of the airplane has the attention to detail that the pictures show on the panel, interior and exterior, for the right person it might be the right airplane. A couple years ago a nice E so for around $115,000 and prices have definitely gone up in the past couple years. (Already by what's been posted is exactly why I would never list my airplane on Mooneyspace. Beechtalk does not allow any stomping on an ad. Just admire the airplane for what it is.)

No offense taken at all. However, it is Mooney history from a great period of Mooney and the wonderful people that built them, which I cherish and respect. The logo does represent that particular time in space. Certainly the logo is not current, but I’m very proud to display it on my vintage Mooney . And I also cherish a bit of other Mooney history hanging in my closet.

I love doggy threads, children threads, kitty threads. Bunnies are good. We need to do this sometimes... I smile every time I log into this thread.

@Hank Aluminium is Latin, therefore that pronunciation has been spread throughout the world. It is pronounced the same in Arabic, German, Dutch, Swedish, French, Hindi, Korean, etc., etc. etc... even Zulu. I am unaware of any other language that pronounces it aluminum, but perhaps it's out there. I know in Spanish (and probably a few languages similar to Spanish) it is aluminio.

I’m not disagreeing. I just don’t know.

I used to have LOC and RNAV approach to come home to at OWD near Boston. If the #1 died I was reassured that my #2 could tune into the LOC or I could do an ILS at BOS if needed. An iPad isn’t going to cut it for me. I want to be able to do a precision approach as plan B. When my KX170B was on its last leg that drove my decision to go with a 255 - I have the ability to do that precision approach even though all these VORs are going out of service.

My airport has a public waste oil tank.

Let’s compare... Pic above, Tom’s suggestion, and this screen shot from WingX... I was hoping to see the mine indicated on the sectional... Nice MS trivia question, Tigers! -a-

Thanks carusoam! I appreciate it. IT is certainly not one of my stronger gifts.

Huh, that’s just something we just don’t consider around here.... The weather was horrible and gloomy today, I don’t think it got above 65

I'm a bit surprised the brain trust hasn't already brought this up: FAR 91.225.(g)(1) (g) Requests for ATC authorized deviations from the requirements of this section must be made to the ATC facility having jurisdiction over the concerned airspace within the time periods specified as follows: (1) For operation of an aircraft with an inoperative ADS-B Out, to the airport of ultimate destination, including any intermediate stops, or to proceed to a place where suitable repairs can be made or both, the request may be made at any time. To me, and I'm pretty sure I read it elsewhere too, that means if your transponder quits while airborne you can ask ATC over the radio for permission to fly through their airspace.

For 800k you would spend 640k? I understand the appeal of a new Seneca V. But if I wanted a Seneca V, I would buy perhaps this one (not having spent more than 30 seconds shopping), for 350k. https://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/188460559/2000-piper-seneca-v or something close to it. For 800k I'm buying turbine. But I don't have 800k. For 450k Im buying one of these. https://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/32593913/1994-beechcraft-a36-bonanza-turboprop

There are two types of people, those who look up every time they hear a plane and look to try and find it, and those that don’t even notice. My granddaughter Hazel, every time she hears a plane, is looking and pointing to the sky saying “Bampa!” My wife and I took Hazel and her mom for a short little flight yesterday. I only had to flip off the intercom a couple of times when she kept chatting and I was trying to hear ATC. After landing I got a "All done" and "Thank you Bampa" over the intercom. More pictures and a couple short videos on my blog. https://intothesky.us/2020/01/19/hazels-flight/

Haha, yea there is very little original left in the panel (if anything). The previous owner updated most everything up to 201 style. I would love to upgrade to the max and add the second mfd to get rid of those other insturments! Just a matter of putting together the funds! Wouldn't either the GI 275 or the EI CGR 30 be able to fit in the panel where the MP/ FP and/or RPM gauge is currently? I haven't measured but I think its close to the 3 1/8 inch hole needed (if I remember correctly).

Yeah. Thats what the eagle comes out too including everything.

Oh, Happy Day!!! Spoke with Corrine at LASAR this morning. Although they did not have the entire kit mentioned above, they did have the clamp-on stud! It, and the STC are going in the mail today. Because it was no the entire kit, they gave me a deal on the clamp and paperwork. I danced a little jig! Again, I cannot say enough good things about the people on this site, and the Mooney community in general. Now if we could just get the factory bank-rolled with an unlimited supply of money... I did wonder if they would cut me a deal on a partially completed new airframe??!!

If two out of three go down, you are fatelly broken and there is nothing you can do about it. I think in most cases if you have a wheel up and don't know about it you will probably do a better landing than if you do.