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Pictures of both just for funsies.

You didn't mention the most desirable feature of this airplane - manual gear!

Maybe that’s the difference between fasting and just skipping a meal. I feel great while fasting. It’s why I like fasting. I dislike flying with a gut bomb after a meal.

Please forward old dead battery Zulu 3's to my home address. I will dispose of them in an environmentally friendly manner. I will pay postage........

Aerolite vs WAT Parmetheus Pro. If you fly at night, I don't recommend the Aerolite. If you're a daytime VFR flyer that just wants to reduce the amperage on your electrical system then that is about all it is good for. You should just stick with you incandescent light bulb versus the Aerolite IMO if you're considering it for night flying. You get what you pay for. These are PAR-36 size.

I might. The problem is, I have an Aspen and GNS 430W installed by the previous owner. If I were going to install a GFC 500, then I'd put in a G3X and a couple of G5s for backup and a GTN 650 and CiES fuel senders and an EDM 900 and GTN 650xi and GNC 255 and a GMA 340 because I'm only going to tear the airplane apart once. All that trouble would get a fancy panel that doesn't really add any utility or make the airplane go faster. What I'd be buying is reliability and ease of use due to better integration. Skip

Intermittent fasting once your used to it should be fine as long as you are fine with it. My wife started experimenting with this to help take off baby weight and the results were amazing. Very important to keep your sodium levels appropriate. She often would crack a few turns of the himalayan sea salt shaker into a glass of a water during the day to keep her electrolytes constant while hydrating. If you are used to it, I see no reason why you wouldn't be able to fly. I often don't eat breakfast (rarely if ever did I eat big breakfasts so I often go 18/6 most days per week. I don't do the longer 24 hour fasts often. What is neat though are two items: After about18-24 hours, mutated cells or not really healthy cells in your body kind of "collapse." In a way, you are flushing out the unhealthy cells during these "24" fasts - which every religion states somewhere helps "cleanse" the body. Again, fascinating. So in a way, you are providing a lighter version of "chemotherapy" to yourself and knocking out pre-cancerous cells from your body. Not bad for simply changing your feeding cycle and working up to a 24 hour fast once in while. After about 30 hours, your body actually starts producing HGH again. Which literally doesn't happy past your late 20's in most people. I've seen certain skin blemishes get better, other conditions fix themselves, its neat when the body repairs itself. Past 36 hours it quickly flips and starts harming the body. She ate pretty much anything she wanted during the consumption hours and drank water and kept her electrolytes up. She did 18/6 5 days a week and one 24 or one attempt at 36 once a week. I was very proud of her and the end results. It completely reset her hormones. Of course we then had two miscarriages over the next year (due to strep and flu), causing weight gain, and other changes, including knocking her hormones way off, so she's planning to start the intermittent fasting again soon. Again, if you do this, and know how you react at certain points of the timeline, you should be fine - stay hydrated and keep your electrolytes up. I suggest reading Dr. Fung if interested in this topic - I'm not a doctor - but i've witnessed the results in my wife, and myself too. https://www.amazon.com/Dr.-Jason-Fung/e/B01BT8K6FK/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 His books make sense and are an easy read: The Longevity Solution - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NS6X8NG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6 The Cancer Code - https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Code-Revolutionary-Understanding-Wellness/dp/0062894005/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwl9GCBhDvARIsAFunhsnBOxKv3vB3a3tFA-6e5avAOr-ZRCrWH0NMrzBxu1YV9GhgYt2luLUaAkRXEALw_wcB&hvadid=477521047615&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9007779&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=5454750137170602101&hvtargid=kwd-1029033998526&hydadcr=15498_10339946&keywords=dr+fung+cancer+code&qid=1616189044&sr=8-2 -Seth

For M20J/K with the KCS55A compass system.

I personally have done fasting and used to regularly skip lunches at work but dont do it much now that I'm spending so much time at home (cant resist the temptation of others eating around me). I wont typically skip liquids ever and will have things like such as tea or coffee with almond milk but no additional sugar added. If you can get through the hunger portion, its quite easy. I found the opposite...heightened focus, elevated energy and so forth. One's body will either use the glucose available through meals, or it will synthesize it from fat stores but unless something is truly medically wrong (or unless there is no fat stores left), blood sugar should remain within a certain range. It seems like fasting is one way to stave off diabetes as it appears to sensitize one to insulin per literature. Evolution kicks in by providing energy and better concentration when as hunters we didnt get that meal we were going for. Certainly mirrors the animal world as fasting (although involuntary) happens quite often. Would love to here an Endo's opinion on this subject.

I used to get "altitude headaches" after flying for a couple of hours with my trusty FlightComs. Then I got a set of QT Halos [back in 2010], and no longer get "altitude headaches" even when flying higher and longer than before . . . . Plenty of room above my head, they aren't noisier when wearing my thick-framed sunglasses, they fit with any hat and they're quiet. No, I don't use the foam tips, I hate them and gave them away. The included white silicone tips work great! I've had to replace a couple of them over the years [$3 for several pair] and the replacements came in in light gray color. Doesn't matter to me, no one sees them when I'm wearing them. My wife loved her DC 13.4s and wouldn't try my Halos. But I bought a pair [from Paul, I think] for her to try, and it only took a single 30-minute local flight to make her a convert! Mine are black, hers are yellow and there is no confusion. Her DCs and my FlightComs are now on the hat rack for passenger use. Look at all that headroom!!

So if I plan for 130, I won't be disappointed.

No, ANR/ANC cancels the noise pressure waves before they get to your eardrum, so there should be less total power impinging on your ear drums with ANR/ANC than without, assuming you adjust the volume to be comfortable. Edit: btw, I have significant tinnitus, too. Seems like a lot of pilots do. In my case it may be from flying airplanes back in the days before headsets, where you got all the noise plus the speaker turned way up so you could hear it. Or equipment fans from computers/electronics/test equipment in labs. No way to know for certain.

Welcome aboard Hilgard... The IO550 got the extended TBO around 2012 or so... Going from M20C to M20R is fun, and funny at the same time... The R is similar to the C, just a little different in every way... All the numbers you used in mph will be close to the new numbers in Kias... Look forward to the flights with your Transition Trainer, lots of review of things you already know... just deeper detail... More weight, more power, more speed, more distance, more climb rate, more capabilities... The difference between M20C and M20R... you get more Mooney... Start reading the book... The M20C barely got a 100 page POH... The M20R POH is 300 fact filled pages of incredible detailed reading... I did this transition a decade ago... and still reading the book... I still read the M20C’s POH too... Take pictures! Including a selfie with the giant grin... take your time... it lasts a pretty long time... PP thoughts only, not a CFI... Best regards, -a-

For my ‘63 C... Downlock 2 ea bolts: AN3-26A 2 ea washers: AN960-10 2 ea nuts: AN363-1032 Uplock 2 ea bolts: AN3-17A 2 ea washer: AN960-10 2 ea nuts: AN365-1032 The difference between the AN363 nut and the AN365 nut is the AN363 is all metal, the AN365 is an elastic insert lock nut. Looks like later models might use slightly different hardware on the uplock block. Maybe because the later models didn’t use a pn 5043 shim? 2 ea bolts: AN3-11A 2 ea nuts: AN363-1032 (same) 2 ea washers: AN970-3 I pasted in the effectivity page for the Index 39 reference...

Very few actually. ‘My Company made the power levers that are used in the Predator B or “reaper” which uses a Honeywell G10 turbine, the old piston predator is pretty much retired, my be all gone I don’t know. So I could infer about how many Predator B’s were being built by how many power levers we sold, and it’s a lot more than I thought. Lycoming did build a spark ignition jet fuel engine for some kind of drone as the Military has been one fuel forever, the last use of gasoline in the Army was the cook stove, and it went away in the 90’s? Replaced by I’m sure one that burns JP-8, which is Jet-A. The Lycoming motor is some kind of small motor I think. https://www.lycoming.com/engines/el-005 ‘Mercury outboards also built a spark ignition outboard that burns jet fuel, likely JP5 for special ops, as gasoline is not at all what the navy wants onboard, http://www.marineenginedigest.com/profiles/mercury/Mercury-Optimax-Military-Motor.htm in fact before I could conduct carrier quals in an AH-64 long ago we had to burn three tanks of JP5 through the aircraft before we were allowed aboard, even Jet-A is too explosive for them, gasoline is an absolute no-no

And this just reinforces, once again, the awesomeness that is Mooneyspace.

You want to knock off 50 percent of the price for missing logs? Might as well start at 80 percent off in case the seller wants to negotiate.

Listed here on Mooney Space First !!!!! Very Nice M20E with excellent paint and interior. Plane cruises at 155-160 Knots on just over 8 gallons an hour. Climb Performance and smoothness of the 3 blade prop is amazing, with no loss in cruise speed! All AD's complied with and complete AD log with every AD listed, compliance method and referencing specific date in the logs to verify log entry. Any AD's not found completed in logs were complied with during last annual. Owner was an A&P who maintained and upgraded the plane himself. He owned it nearly 25 years. Every Speed mod including 201 windshield (except the one piece belly) Brand New MT 3 blade prop (65 +/- hours Since New) All New glass Just completed a complete strip and reseal on the right wing fuel tank. IFR certified with GNS430 w/ WAAS Comes with Jeppesen Data card downloader & 6 months remaining on subscription (as of March 2021) KX 155 back-up nav/com w/ ILS indicator. JPI 700 Engine Monitor Precise Flight Standby Vacumn System Cable operated step King Audio Panel Intercom GTX 327 Garmin Transponder ADS-B compliant with new GDL 82. Full Altimeter/Static & Transponder cert 8/12/20. Annual completed 8/11/20. Compressions 72/74/75/75. Pop 1595 SMOH Lycoming "NEW Engine". 4390 Airframe TT Aircraft flown 65 hours since annual Tanis Engine Heater Paint 9-10 Interior 9 Plane always hangared in a heated hangar at Ford Airport in Iron Mountain, MI (KIMT) No Damage History that I am aware of Depending on buyer and sales price, may come with parts and service manuals, newer aircraft cover, "ADS-B in" receiver for Ipad, Portable Oxygen System (tank w/ cannulas), some headsets and any other assy's I find before the sale. $69,000 Contact Tom 906-458-6989

It’s a great place to store skittles and M&M’s if you get hungry on a long weather layover.

I always avoid removing the lower cowl. It’s also why people have to keep replacing their intake boots. It’s rough on the boot.

Attention to detail is becoming a rare bird in the wild. You feel you are capable of such detail, but once something leaves your line of sight, it is a crap shoot.

Always a possibility but rare. Nor is thermal runaway confined to charging. It can happen with rapid discharge too. The last smoking tablet I had was an MS Surface at about 35W. Was not hooked to a charger, but it entered "spinning ball" mode and ended up toast. The GI-275 is like the Anker battery packs, it charges at a very low rate. Because 99% of the time it uses ships power for primary sustenance hard or rapid charging is not necessary.

I went through this recently and the problem was a locked brake in the actuator. Once it’s on Jack’s, fashion a way to measure current to the actuator. I bought an inexpensive DC Amp clamp. Actuate the gear multiple times while monitoring current. If it immediately exceeds the 25 Amp current limit, look for a short in the wiring or more likely the actuator itself. To quote Carusoam “PP only, not an A&P.” Although my education is Electrical Engineering.

I may know a person who has reused a crush washer once or twice. You are not supposed to, but sometimes there is a little crush left in them. I rarely remove the bottom cowl...you can get to almost everything without removing it. I’ve even done the exhaust a few times without removing it. Keeps the accordion to the fuel servo in good shape. Remove the heater scat to gain best access to the oil screen.

great question... Tried looking for an answer... https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/719027#specs As far as I can tell... the battery pack can be used while sitting in the hangar... It has a power monitor... I assume it is getting power insitu... Soo... 1) it’s a constantly, smart charging system... when power is available... 2) Any battery can short... leading to thermal runaway... 3) High rates of discharge, or high rates of charging can be bad... 4) I don’t see it being very user friendly if the battery comes out every time it needs to be charged... Starting an IFR trip on anything less than 100% would get more involved... What a marvelously complex device... -a-

No rush... JP clearly said yesterday, that you have years to borrow at near zero low interest rates... But he also implied that you would be getting the overnight rate... and that lending window was only available to certain qualified organizations... The longer end of the interest rate table seems to be headed all the way to 2%... which still isn’t so bad for such a fine project... The low cost route... is a one step, do it all at once, routine... opening and closing the panel each time to add one device at a time won’t make any real world sense... The closer challenge is the with the Dynon display... which is super nice... but the availability of the AP seems to be a bit delayed for being qualified (STC’d) for the Mooney line... how long can you wait? Check with your Dynon contact to see if you can get a schedule for availability... PP thoughts only, not a finance guy, panel guy, or AP guru... Best regards, -a-

Yes, I realize that you take pride in your ability and foresight to maintain privacy, and yes, I realize many people do not use the methods you've described and have their information publicly available. To clarify, however, my original question was not about whether it is legal, but whether it should be considered good form for an individual to post some person's name and address on a social website without their awareness or permission.

Depends on the type of flying you do (VFR/IFR/Short strips/Mountainous terrain) If you're flying mainly VFR, ADSB-in woulld be a lot higher. you don't realize how much traffic you don't see until you have traffic alert. If you're flying IFR I'd probably want a good AI with a back up at the top of my list even above a great engine monitor. If you're flying into smaller strips, VG's might be the difference between it being tight and not. The conversation about a 2 blade vs a 3 blade was brought up on another forum, because the 3 blade had such a shorter takeoff roll. This made flying out of shorter strip a non event instead worrying about the fence coming up at the end of the runway. Safety is based upon the way the pilot flies the airplane. Based upon that, you can create your own list of priorities.

Not sure I would have continued attempting to reset a circuit breaker, no since in potentially causing an electrical fire.

for an interesting comparison... Check out the opposite end of the spectrum.... This will give more of a 3D view... This short body Mooney was somebody’s forever-plane. Steve, the former owner was the mechanic for Tom, the seller... two Mooney friends... -a-

I look at it this way: 1. As to the demo you showed, the peak pressure point may not be much different between the two engines. LOP slows the combustion process and moves PP further past TDC. However, they recovered power by increasing MP. Higher MP burns faster so it moves PP closer to TDC. The net result may be very little change in PP point. 2. I am probably wrong, but try to think of efficiency of burn this way. a. At peak EGT the mixture burns as fast as possible but the mixture is not an idea mixture. That is, one area may have too much fuel for the oxygen available and another may have too much oxygen for fuel available. So even though theoretically all the fuel will be burned and no oxygen will be left, in reality there is a little unburned or partially burned fuel and a little oxygen going out the tail pipe. b. As I continue to lean and go LOP, I am supplying the engine with more oxygen than is needed to burn all the fuel. As I continue to lean, it becomes less and less likely that any fuel molecule will escape without being burned. I capture a little higher percentage of available energy (even though the total energy is decreasing). However, since I'm LOP, the burn rate slows, PP moves further past TDC, and becomes somewhat less effective. However, at least when I'm close to peak EGT, PP hasn't moved too far so the BSFC improves. As I continue to go deeper LOP, there is less and less unburned fuel so I'm not capturing any previously unused energy but PP continues to move further away from ideal so efficiency (BSFC) starts getting worse. That's why we don't want to run too deeply LOP if we are looking for best BSFC.

I’m sorry to hear about your friend, you’ve mentioned him a number of times over the years. I hope I have friends like this when I kick the bucket...

Nice work Fredi! The GS shows up on the HSI... as you meet it from below. The FD bars lead the way... GS slope capture is a mild light bulb coming on... The old BK displays are working pretty well. The X-wind is mildly strong... Pilot still gets to operate the throttle... Thanks for sharing all the details... Its a nice busy minute and a half. PP observations while following Fredi’s scan... Go MS! Best regards, -a-

Thanks for the very lucid explanations. Obviously I misinterpreted the use of the term interconnect that I had seen somewhere in reference to the bladders. The fact that each tank feeds only the fuel selector makes perfect sense.

The US has more affordable and less regulated living. We DO while they spot.

Depends on where you are, in Alaska and the NWT it’s common and normal. there are even restaurants on the side of the Alaska Highway as you fly by that will have aircraft in the parking lot, and a few gas stations with extra long hoses that you land and taxi in and fill up with car gas. ‘There used to be a Marina in the Panhandle of Fl that was out on the end of a causeway, you would call them on the VHF and a VW van would run out and place a saw horse across the road and you would land and taxi in and park to eat, when you went to leave the process worked in reverse. ‘I’ve stopped and stayed here several times, you don’t land on the road but you do taxi down it to park the airplane in the grass just across the street from the Motel, be sure to stop at the stop sign before you cross the main street. https://www.funplacestofly.com/funflydetails.asp?id=411. But most other places the local LEO will ticket you for operating a motor vehicle in an unsafe manner and the FAA will get you for being reckless and dangerous. In flight school in the Army we had a classmate that just disappeared one day, turns out he had run his Piper out of fuel and landed successfully in the parking lot of the Super Bowl. The FAA apparently got upset when he got some car gas in a can and flew it out of there. At least that was the story that was going around.

I'm sure there's more to it, but a plane isn't registered to use public roads. Much like my polaris ranger, not street legal.

Did a little sleuthing with the wayback machine. This document is no longer hosted online but available on the archive. I saved it in .pdf format for your enjoyment. Looks like the lightly modded bird in the Eval was a 140 to 145kt bird. M20G Evaluation Report.pdf

Yes, but those numbers tell a lot more. 5000 msl at 80°F is about 7,500 'D-Alt.

Total M20K's with TKS = 102 89 no-hazard systems and 13 FIKI.

It is a $45K airplane that needs a $25K engine and $10K of additional work (maybe more). $45K-25K-10K = $10K is what it is worth. Walk away unless you can get it under $10K. Planes like this end up with the reaper because the owners think they have something special and are delusional. Or they end up with someone who doesn't have a clue and wants to dump a whole lot of money into something that they shouldn't.

The GI-275 is long but it should fit, its about 3 inches shorter then a JPI-700. I would agree on connecting the GI-275 to the autopilot out of the gate.

I agree about the 355 especially with no adsb in your future. I’d check on the clearance behind the 256...it’s pretty long. If your investing in a 275 connect it with the AP initially, it’ll be far more expensive later on. If you’re redoing the panel strongly reconsider the 10 inch unit as the price is very similar.

What?

Here is a copy of the data table form the AFM on my 1963 C model.

I contacted Mooney after Oshkosh one year. I can’t remember if it was the last one or the one before. Anyway I wanted to put in the modern yoke. They gave me the go away kid you are bothering me price of $6000 or something like that. I remember that I could buy an entire wing kit from Van’s for the price of a yoke from Mooney.

There's a need for both. Each serves unique functions with Garmin Pilot providing briefing and flight plan filing services. Internet access on the 760 is limited to some weather on the ground (IR Satellite, METARS, Radar (Base and Composite Reflectivity, and TAFs), and database downloads from Garmin. Until recently Garmin was making all of its interfaces the same with a Main Menu of Icons. They recently changed the Garmin Pilot interface and eliminated the Menu Page Icons. Instead they have a row of icons along the bottom of the application. This does save an extra tap. Also, the number of icons has increased so it makes it easier to see them all. The 760 is easily viewable in sunlight, where the iPad is not. Also, I like having the 760 on the yoke for quick access to frequencies and data I use frequently. For me the iPad is too big and I prefer the aviation dedicated unit to the iPad, even the mini.

To provide some clarification, the main difference from a KAP150 to KFC150 is the addition of FD bars and a different AI. There is additional wiring as others have mentioned but don't forget about the voltage of the unit or the adapter chips that are airframe specific. Depending on how the aircraft is optioned the KAS297B can be additional as well as a remote annunciator. Also, the KC192 flight computer needs to be married/aligned to the attitude source. This is easiest to do with the flight line tester or if the shop has built a extender harness as all of the gain pots are on the right side of the unit and you can not adjust them if they are in the rack.

Still room for an update..? It looks like the Missile has the forerunner of the pixie hole... The Ovation is known for adding a hole above the #5 cylinder on the IO550s... Similar to the blue arrow marked hole here... The O’s pixie hole is a bit higher than the cylinder... adding more to the pressure above the cylinder... having the forerunner pixie hole at one height, and the new gov arm not too far below it... Did that seal get swapped with something a bit tighter? We have a seal guy around here... Blocking high pressure air from entering below the cylinder... may improve CHT in that area... If you have a CHT challenge there... PP thoughts only, not polymer seal guy.... Hmmmmm... seal / Guy... something sounds familiar... about that... Best regards, -a-

Thousands of inflatable door seals have been installed for many decades. Mine was installed in 1987 and still works great. www.aerocessories.aero