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could be anything, but a useful thing would be a co detector

Putting a piece of safety wire in the vent will really discourage a mud dauber, and it wont "fall" out or climb into the tank. Leave 1/4" sticking out of the vent tube for ease of removal if you want.

Yes

Since the passing of Gary Hellman, (blue skys, Gary) Dave and Ruth Taisch have asked me to post the Florida Lunch group's meeting notes and schedules in their behalf. The Florida Lunch group meets the 2nd Sat of each month at a revolving airport venue cafe. If anyone would like to get on the FL. Mooney lunch group email list, contact Daveanruth@aol.com and they will put you on it so you wont miss any announcements And here's Dave....... Dear Mooney Enthusiast, We had a pretty good turnout for our first lunch at the new Waco Grill in Lakeland. Eight Mooneys, 1 Bonanza, and 1 Tesla (not mine) brought 15 people to lunch in spite of the early morning fog that hung on to late morning. The afternoon flights home were in good VFR weather. Our next event is this Saturday, January 14. We are arranging ground transportation from the Leesburg Airport (KLEE) to our house where lunch will be provided - Publix fried chicken and side dishes. Weather permitting we will be running Ruth’s G gauge model trains in the back yard where she has 1,000 linear feet of track in 4 loops. Normally we run 5 or 6 trains at once. We will have a couple of cars running from the airport starting around 11AM until noon or so to the house, and running people back pretty much whenever they want to go. The trains will be running from 11AM until either everyone leaves or I get too cold (the weather is supposed to be good VFR with 10 knots of wind and 50 degree temperatures). We have two cats in the house, so if you are allergic to them, please plan to eat outside. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU LET US KNOW BY THURSDAY EVENING IF YOU ARE COMING SO WE CAN HAVE ENOUGH FOOD, AND ARRANGE ENOUGH TRANSPORTATION. Melinda Simmons will be at the airport with a list of everyones N number and quantity of people so she can co-ordinate rides. If you are local and driving by the airport, please drop in and check with Melinda to see if she has anyone needing a ride. Also, please park by the lake so the driveway is available for the shuttle drivers. If you come at the last minute without telling us, be sure to get to the airport well before noon, or there might not be anyone there to take you to our house. IF YOU TELL US YOU ARE COMING AND THEN CAN’T, PLEASE CALL RUTH AT 352-343-3196 SO WE CAN BE SURE MELINDA IS NOT WAITING FOR YOU. Brian Sapp of Sunair has waived the normal ramp fee for people that are attending, but asks you to buy some fuel either from self serve or the truck, but this is not a requirement. All events start at 11:30. Future events: January, 14, Leesburg, ( LEE ). We will car pool to our house for lunch, then weather permitting run model trains. February, 11, Fort Pierce, (FPR). March 11, Vero Beach, (VRB). Please let me know by Thursday if you are going to try to come so we can buy enough food, but not too much as I would like to not be eating leftovers for a month. It is also important that we know how many people in your party and you N number to co-ordinate transportation. I have the very unhappy duty to tell you that a long time member, Gary Hellman died 12/17/22 from cancer. His obituary is below. I know many of you will miss him. Hope to see you soon, Dave and Ruth 11605 Lane Park Rd. Tavares, FL. 352-408-3343

Concorde will also send you some if you call them. I needed some extra length bolts for my battery minder harness which they gladly sent NC

In cold wx if yours has a squat switch, older donuts won't expand and open the switch. Eventually they will, but it might be 50 nm or so. Fix are new donuts

Merry Christmas All, Well said Ray

@WSMD, I sent a PM earlier, if you are able please reach out to me. I'm so glad your ok

It is with great sadness that I learned of Gary Hellman's passing last Saturday. Gary lost his long bout with Cancer. I have been voluntold to pick up the slack for Mooney Lunch Group announcements on Mooney Space and hope I can fill Gary's shoes in this task. For those of you that dont know, The Florida Mooney Lunch group meets the second saturday of every month at a different location. It is a dynamic group of passionate Mooney and other aviators that is run by Dave and Ruth Taisch. THere are no members, board, dues or meetings except for lunch every month. Its a great way to get in a couple of approaches, knock the rust off the plane and pilot, meet interesting Mooney pilots and in general make airplane noises with like minded people. If you would like to get on the Mooney lunch mailing list, just drop Dave and ruth and email daveanruth@aol.com They are very guarded with the email list and will not release your email to anyone.

but that's for knots! unless your ASI is marked in knots you must use mph

the way they are going after Elon already, dont give them ideas Erik

I subordinate to Scott's ongoing real world flying with the LoPresti Snout vs my few hrs behind one. Thanks Scott for the correct data!

Might I suggest one writes their minimums down, and keep a copy by their checklist. prior to engine start checklist use your personal min. checklist. Key doesn't go into mag switch if below minimums.

very minimal benefits to ram air on a J. The Bennie of the LoPresti is mainly cooling without a speed penalty

If anyone has contact info for the injured pilot, please let me know. Thanks

We have a few new members here at Mooneyspace whom might not know about the Bill Gilliland foundation. I kindly ask you consider making the Mooney Summit, inc. your charity at Amazon and using smile.amazon.com as an entry point. here is a link to select our charity https://smile.amazon.com/ch/47-4343940 thanks!

opps, I am a student at this poll thingie...fixed the J issue caused by old age THanks Skip

John, thank you once again for this wonderful donation. This benevolent spirit enables us to assist people like Candi and over 30 others when they need the help

In speaking with 3 Mooney owners at the Florida Mooney Lunch Group today that had GFC500 Installed in their planes, It came to light all 3 were experiencing pitch oscillations with their AP. Some have tried to adjust gain out of STC spec to resolve with a small degree of improvement, others are at loss saying their shop has basically said its out of their hands. Is this problem a pattern for Mooneys or an issue of 3 different shops installing incorrectly? The time I have had behind the GFC500 has not displayed the issue, but admittedly, that time is far less extensive compared to what I have behind the best in class GFC 700. From what I can gleen, it is probably more of a software thing with sensors, perhaps timing of trim actuation than that of hardware failure, but admittedly, just really beginning to dive into the reported issue. If anyone has had this issue and has a definitive fix, please post.

one of the Mooney Pros, inc instructors is at Macon Co airport, not to far by Mooney. Reach out Eric and we can get this set up. Mike Elliott CEO www.mooneypros.com

One of the things I try to impress on new Mooney owners to help prevent this is to always lock the hatch if it's down and closed. leave it up and open if it is not locked . Learning this simple standard practice will prevent opening in flight and is easily done with new owners before they get into other habits

I prefer the Jeppesen course, and Sheppard for test practice

way back in the day when it was cool to spin airplanes, I had to demonstrate a cross controlled stall in my Mooney for my CFI ride. The FAA examiner was an old hand aerobatic pilot who re-assured me after my objection "life will continue" and so it was...I was ready for it but it snapped hard. Perhaps someone who hasnt been spin trained, expecting the spin, and briefed the recovery and comforted by a real acro pro in the seat next to him might not have been able to correct before things got really pear shaped. In other words, keep it coordinated and stay a bit away from that part of the flight envelope. Get a Pitts if you want to have your ass above your brain.

They might be in place, but are they placed correctly? Something is out of whack, and it can only be the rigging or stall strip placement, or your not as coordinated as you might think when it stalls.

If your power off coordinated stalls also resulted in a right wing dropping, Have rigging checked and also stall strip placement