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It's not 20 gph, we burn 18.5... Big difference! Hah hah! Not! Yes I know we'll never beat a Js efficiency at 9.5 gph (well except for on taxi, we probably get better than 9.5) but our birds are happiest higher. But if you're not going to take advantage of going higher, you will go a little faster, but burn a lot more fuel. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Congrats!! Welcome! I have two mechanic places, one is a local on my airport (long beach), which I use to keep me flying for the year without having to go anywhere, second is a service center which I do my annuals in. My recommendation is Lasar, yes it's further, but they do a good job. Have not heard any thing negative or positive about Foothill or Crown aviation in San Diego. Would love to hear some feedback if anyone has ever used either one of these service centers. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Ice dogs? Hah. I'm still working out hooking up my dogs to some O2, so we can go more places. Looking into the Aerox mask which is apparently certified I think to around 25k or some ridiculously high number for dogs. But if all of your flights are going to be less than 11k, turbo won't be necessary and you'll get better range and economy from an Ovation or a J. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Don, I would use it! I have a full sized iPad retina display that i fly with all of the time. It is mounted on my co-pilot yoke and angled towards me with a yoke mount. It is perfect and doesnt block any of my instruments.. I looked at an ipad mini, and even right in front of you, its a bit small, and i like the size of the regular iPad for general non-aviation use. So i would keep the full sized one if i were you. So far, none of my right seat passengers have complained about having an ipad in front of them angled for me to see it.

Bill, Get the Bravo if you can. I carry dogs for pilots and paws all of the time, can fit lots of animals in my Bravo, and I travel loaded between 8 and 10k usually, but i come back at 14k-18k usually, which gets me well over 205 kts ground speed on the way back. Nice to see another transporter around!! John

I have an M20M/Bravo, and these are some typical numbers for my bird. 10,000 ft / 185 kts TAS / 18 gph / @ 29" MP / 2400rpm / ~65% HP. Higher altitude get me much faster with the same power settings and fuel burn, I only go 10k or below on short trips, or if winds or furry passengers limit my climbing. JB

Well, we were planning on attending, I thought the BBQ it was later in the day. We were at the Pear festival.

I would definitely recommend turbo if you can. The clear advantages I see are: Outstanding climb performance on takeoff Continued great climb performance at high density altitude, making flying on warmer days not a problem Ability to go to and leave high elevation airports also without issues Ability to climb above turbulence quickly Being able to fly between 12K and 25K, you essentially have your own sky, as most GA fleet are below you, and commercial traffic is well above you. Ability to fly higher over mountainous terrain, avoiding turbulence and also much safer by going higher (especially important at night) giving you many more options to land if you ever needed to in a hurry. Being able to take advantage of some great tailwinds and speeds up high, getting you there at times ahead of most commercial flights (including TSA and all of the other airport commercial things you have to do) Adequate training is key. I purposely did not put flying above storms as one of the bonuses as I wouldn't buy or use a turbo for that purpose. I avoid flying in situations where I might even remotely get icing, and even if I did get TKS, I would still avoid flying in those conditions as trying to get on top or rain clouds can be impossible as storms can quickly go well above 30k, without warning, then you're out of options. But for all of the other non storm - dodging reasons, Turbo is fantastic!

I'm planning on getting to Miramar for the Saturday show, hope to see some of you there! I'll be the guy in the Mooney hat staring in awe at Sean Tucker's flights

Rats!!! I was there and missed the BBQ! Would have been fun to meet you all.. Ok at least my airplane was at the BBQ

Yes. thats the one Caruso. Ultra low level Carbon Monoxide detector. Thanks for the typo correction, yes its CO. Would HIGHLY recommend everyone who owns, or regularly flies a plane get one, and not the one from home depot, or the color changing card. One quick blast about the CO color changing card, one of the FIRST things to go with Carbon Monoxide inhalation (CO) is your color discrimination, so if you actually did have enough CO in your cockpit to change the color, you would have NO idea what color it was, even if you were to somehow, luckily look at it while inhaling which would be unlikely. Because of my recent detector purchase I am having my mechanic check out the levels that Im seeing on runup and fix it! If I never had bought one, I would have never known, even with that home depot one I used to have.

Wow.. awesome video!! Shows what flying is all about!

Woo Hoo!! Welcome Buzz.. I bet you several drinks that you will absolutely love your new to you Bravo!

I just flew with my new ultra sensitive CO2 monitor today by Aeromedix. http://www.aeromedix.com/safety-equipment/carbon-monoxide-detectors/ultra-low-level-carbon-monoxide-detector-c-o-experts-2015-low-level-c-o-health/ I previously had one from home depot, which never sounded off in the cockpit. I had a prolonged hold in the runup area for clearance and the ultrasensitive alarm went off at 10ppm. It then continued to increase. I opened the side window vent and nothing happened to the CO2 levels. when it got up to 16 and rising, I opened the door (thinking I might have to ground the flight) and they came right back down to 0. Stayed at 0 in flight. To this day, I never knew we were probably getting several doses of carbon monoxide when waiting clearance with our engine running all of these years which is not good! Thanks Aeromedix!

I always top off mine and the courtesy cars tanks, and try to return the car in better condition from when i borrowed it. I feel that the nicer i am, the more likely that a courtesy car will be available for the next pilot landing here (which might be me), and the more airports we can have available with people willing to lend us their cars. And courtesy cars in remote areas are the best, as we want to get around and see the town, but the smaller the city, the harder it is to get a rent a car place to come to your airport for pilots. Great for business.. and we pilots like to spread the word about fun places with courtesy cars for our getaway trips or $100 hanburger fix!

I have had to replace my stratus unit now twice, because of battery issues failing about once every 9 months. I run it through airplane power, first through its adapter, or through a USB port. Used to have it on a suction mount on the back window which didn't seem to get hot, but just bought an antenna so I'll stick it on the side of a seat totally away from the sun and hopefully it will last longer! Sportys is very good about replacing failed units, but I'm looking for a more permanent solution to in flight weather, as the only time I actually could have most used in flight weather during a flight from Texas, it was down.

Way to go!! Great milestone for you and your Mooney! And... How did you make that cool map of all of your flights?

I have a JPI EDM 800 monitor and probes, 6 cylinder, fully operational, just upgraded in April 2014 with new led display, latest software and USB port, that I would like to sell as I am hoping to upgrade to a 900 at my upcoming annual at the beginning of October. Has %HP/FF/OAT/MAP/RPM/CHTs/ TIT, lean find, fuel remaining. Have never had problems with this unit. New retail on this unit is ~$3,200. If interested, let me know, all offers considered! I'll post some pictures of it in action later this week.

Welcome Jimmy! Great purchase.. one of my personal best ever getting mine. Getting up above 14k and having that sky pretty much to yourself while controllers think you are a King Air or something because you're going so fast is one of my favorite parts of owning a Bravo. Would definitely recommend getting a good Mooney specific transition instructor, it will make all of the difference and it's worth traveling outside of your area to get one. I don't know of any in your area, but. I'm sure folks on the board here can give you some recommendations if you need one.

I'm in for lunch at CMA, the tri tip on Wednesdays and weekends are well worth the av gas! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Definitely I would send both sides back to Precise flight for rebuilding. I had one of my speedbrakes delay on retraction, both were rebuilt and had wear and tear, one was worse than the other. Previously was more than 10 years before a speedbrake problem, and I too expect to get another 10 + years after rebuilding both.

I make sure I do 6 approaches, holding and tracking on a simulator (or airplane) with an instructor 2x yearly at least every 6 months, which keeps me legal to fly IFR and I usually end up flying 1 IMC instrument approaches/ takeoffs monthly which also helps keep me proficient. Its also great to fly with other pilots, then you can pop your hood on and get another one in for practice. I know this is somewhat off topic, but my favorite are the GCA / PAR approaches you can get at most military facilities. Their controllers like the practice and it is such a cool approach to do!

I've transported 80 animals so far for pilots and paws, and it's great. There has to be a coordinator to make things go smoothly. You might look in your area on the "done" transports to see who is the coordinator for these flights to get going. Once you get used to the process, you can help a little bit, but there still needs to be some volunteer behind the scenes contacting all of the drivers

Ok I am intently watching this one, and you guys are scaring me. Yesterday, my MX20 multifunction display had a message (attached) and then just went out. It recovered after about 4 hours of flight, but I think it might be dead Jim. My avionics shop will tell me shortly. I was thinking anyway of upgrading to the GTN 750 one of these days (may be now!) but it seems that some are having radio issues. I have noticed that nav reception through my low-tech bendix king radio through the same antenna has far superior range (and the com can get very distant stations by pulling the squelch knob) than through my 430 now. So im wondering if i can keep three radios in my airplane if i upgraded, (the two garmin ones controlling each other through the 750 and then the BK one all by itself as a low tech backup, since I probably wont get much resale from my Bendix King one and it works great now. So the bigger question im debating now is between salvaging my MX20 (not looking good), getting a GMX200, or going full Monty with a 750. Im glad Oshkosh is happening now, hopefully the best of all upgrades and fixes are out, right at the time I will likely need them!