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we do a lot of them and a week is normal. it often runs over for parts and then its two weeks. 2 months is when it need an engine.

try to imagine your life without the plane. If you like what that looks like, sell. If you still want to fly, get another plane. Let this one be someone else's project.

Yeah they were definitely shot but the problem was present before and after replacing them. Hard to spot the issue without knowing the system I think.

Fly it until the engine needs overhaul and sell it as is. It sounds like you and family teally aren't into it anymore. I agree that a three hour drive is no big deal, but four -eight hour drves are the Mooney sweet spot. If you have no mission and can fly commercial what is the point?

Yup...sounded like the plane was hit by a bullet when it happened on my E. Changing the wire is not too difficult if teh mechanism is OK.

On the flush vent door version (‘63), the wire is below the screen. My wire broke at the forward end. I did a temp repair which got me by for a while. When I replaced the mixture cable with a McFarlane PMA, it had to be cut to length. There was enough left over that I replaced the Bowden cable with a piece of left over mixture cable. A nice and smooth teflon lined Bowden cable. There’s a plug on the left side of the air box for a screw driver to loosen the screw to get the wire free. It was stuck and I surely didn’t want to strip it. I sprayed it with some AeroKroil and forgot it about for a few weeks. When I came back to it, the screw loosened up smooth as butter, like a miracle. It was a challenge to get the new wire back through the hole, but persistence paid off. The pic is looking through one of the duct plenums. This repurposed mixture cable should last for a long, long time. As a side note, if you’re in there, replace the drain tube vinyl connection to the aluminum drain tube. Mine was hard as a rock and leaked like a sieve. My aluminum drain tube had also split from water freezing in it, so I replaced the entire length with vinyl tube. The air ducting could probably use replacing, too…

Yep had similar thing happen to me in 67C certainly an eye opener especially after my brother who was flying at the time had just closed the Cowl Flaps and then heard a thud.

I am still having heart palpitations over it, unbelievably loud and not the kind of sound you want to hear wizzing along. I was convinced I hit an Eagle or something after checking all the gauges 10000x. Soon as I landed and stepped out saw it flopped out backwards on the roof. I was happy and then I went and changed my shorts.

I have removed and repaired the one on my 65E. I agree with lubricatiing it if possible at both ends, but it is difficult to replace the wire. It is one of those things that, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Getting the SpO2 doesn’t take any signal processing. Getting the respiration from it does.

I got a colonoscopy yesterday. They left be alone for 1/2 hour hooked to the patient monitor, so I started playing with the pulse ox. The monitor had ECG on the top trace, SpO2/pleth wave on the second trace and respiration rate on the bottom trace. It would take blood pressure about every 5 minutes. With what was connected to me I'm not sure how it was deriving the respiration, but it was. If I held my breath the trace would stop and it would start beeping. Anyway, back to the SpO2. I tried it on all my fingers with different orientations. It would always eventually get a good pleth wave and give a stable SpO2 reading, unless I didn't insert my finger deep enough into the sensor. It seemed to have an AGC function that would try to optimize the red and IR levels. I'm not sure what the pleth wave was actually showing. It could be the red channel, the IR channel, the sum of them, or the difference of the two. It could also be some derived combination of the two. Whatever it was doing, it was pretty robust and once I stopped messing with it, it would get a steady pleth wave and gave consistent readings. 98 in my case. If I jacked with it and the pleth wave trace went to hell, the reading always went down, never up, which is good. I couldn't get it to read high, but I was close to max as it was, and I didn't have CO poisoning either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoplethysmogram

Find a girlfriend that likes to fly places

I'm retired now and spend some of my time helping a local IA on annuals. Several of the airplanes are Mooneys, two are TLS. It can be a real shit show. Most owners are not hands on with their own airplane between annuals. Some don't even clean the windshield. A short list of things owners should do before sending their airplane for annual (from my viewpoint): Clean the lead and oil off the belly and wash the airplane exterior including the wheels, brakes, and wheel wells. Clean all the bullshit out of your airplane interior. Empty bottles, empty and full oil bottles, snack wrappers, crumbs, old flight notes. Don't leave your headsets in there. Remove anything in the way of removing the seats. Make sure your airplane has all the placards listed in the POH - they're required. No unmarked switches. Make sure your POH is complete and not falling apart, the weight and balance document is there, and any additional required accessory operation manuals (GPS, autopilot, engine monitor). Keep you AC records organized including the current list of complied with ADs and reoccurring ADs. Keep the continued airworthiness documents in a binder or folder - these are part of the aircraft maintenance manual. Generally, its a good idea to keep an inventory of the date and hours for the last replacement certain items: Magnetos, sparkplugs, brakes, battery, tires, avionics filter. Add turbocharger and tailpipe clamps for those turbo models. If you defer having things fixed, by all means expect the annual to take longer if you want them fixed then. Nobody wants to do an annual on junky, poorly cared for airplanes. They are viewed as a risk by the IA's.

1 week, 2 weeks if i help 8) of course that's just the annual and associated task, anything extra takes more time

My experience is that people that go to gun ranges are very responsible. These random 'fall out of the sky' bullet holes are caused by trigger happy idiots in their backyards. JMO.