Tim Jodice

I would definitely buy one again. it had about 450-500 hours on it. It was after heavy rain. I was going to sun n fun anyway and in the past I didn't park at LAL so parking in Deland was not a big deal. This is the picture I sent them and they said that they would (and did) repaint it.

I dont have the 201 anymore. I think they mean shipping to Florida. I had paint issues as well and they told me the samething. I ended up going to sun n fun, left the plane with them and avoided the R&R labor and shipping.

Yes. I would buy one again.

Not a typo for some reason the lines crossed at about 2300. maybe because I did the stock prop at 9500 and the engine is making less power. The perceived noise level is unmistakably lower at all but lowest RPMs.

283 commuting to work.

You really can go wrong with either they are both great aircraft. If speed is at the top then it is an Ovation. Be careful when people talk about Debonair speed because they came with 225, 260 or 285HP engines.

The systems FIKI or not work awesome on Mooneys. In addition to what others have said the panels are different. The inadvertent system has 5 panels per wing and two on each side of the horizontal stabilizer, FIKI systems have 3 per wing and one per side of the tail. If you look at all of the foward facing surfaces on a Mooney there is very little unprotected. About an inch at the wing root, about 2 inches at the bottom of the vertical stabilizer and the wing tips. where it is not obvious is where the panels meet. Some airplanes Cirrus being a great example have substantial differences between inadvertent and FIKI. A quick walk around a FIKI and then an inadvertent Cirrus it is very obvious that they changed alot from the wing roots, tips not being protected and probably the most important is the elevator counterweight. Not that ice under any circumstances is good but most airplanes can carry some ice. Few do well with a few extra pounds of weight on a counter weight of a flight control.

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I forgot why but I know bore size has a lot to do with detonation limits. Most aircraft engines are around a 5 inch bore while cars are around 3-3.5 bore. Maybe someone he smarter than me can explain it.

No I did have an issue finding what I wanted. So few people like Skymasters so it keeps the value down and available. The one I bought was only about 60 miles away. It had everything I wanted in the panel, Riley Rocket mods the most important one being the intercoolers and approximately mid time engines. The Baron (N20148) is a 1978 B55 with 470s also know as a baby Baron for the short nose and small engines. Awesome airplane, 1680 Useful load and it will do 190ishTAS if you want it to but I fly it at 175 on 22 GPH total. Fastest trip ever was a few week ago, 34 min from MHT to ACK. Max cruise power and a tail wind. it normally takes 45-50 minutes normal winds and a more sedated power setting. I gave been trying to get together with @MarkD34M to race his Ovation and see how much more fuel the Baron uses to do the same speed.

I would say I am moving laterally for two specific reasons. When I bought my Mooney It was a perfect fit for what I needed and that is to bring 2 sometimes 3 people plus a lot of baggage 120 miles each way for the least amount of money. Well business continues to grow and I need to bring more people more parts. To address that problem I bought a Baron with three other people and it works great I use it during the week and they use it nights and weekends. Payload problem solved I planned to use the Baron mostly during the peak season (May-September) and the Mooney the rest of the time. Well I am 3 years in now and while it does slow down in the winter it doesn't slow down enough to only need 2 people. So to this day I continue to use the Baron most of the time. Then came the next and more challenging issue. I started noticing a ringing in my right ear and I didn't thing much of it in the beginning but like most things it continued to get worse. I couldn't figure out why, sometimes it was more noticeablethan others. I figured 41 was a bit young to get tinnitus but everyone is different. I went to see an ear doctor and found out I don't have tinnitus but likely earlier in life I damaged my right ear. Fixing cars my whole life that isn't hard to believe. I told him what I do for work today and that I fly everyday to get there. He said that flying is likely your problem that provokes it to ring today. I said I have plenty of friends (one that is twice my age) that fly frequently and don't have any issues. He asked, how many of them fly 10 times a week for the past 3 years? I said...... He told me, no one is surprised when there ears ring when they hear something very loud, well it is nothing more than pressure and you do that every time you fly. I stay below 5000 95% of the time and 2500 when it is VFR. there have been a few weeks when almost every day was VFR and when I never get above 2500 the ringing goes away. I currently love what I do and don't want to stop but I don't want to do anymore damage to my ear. I bought a pressurized Cessna P337 Skymaster. After speaking to people that own one It sounded like a perfect fit. With only a little over 300 pressurized skymasters made few people have flown one and even less have own one. I am going to miss the Mooney. It never failed me during the 650 or so hours I put on it. If there is anyone who want to go for a ride in one call me. I don't mean just the people looking to buy it but anyone who would like to see and fly one. A pet peeve of mine is when someone says "I heard from a friend that Mooneys are (fill in the blank)". I ended up liking and buying a Mooney because someone took me flying in their Mooney and I saw first hand that people that talk bad about a Mooney are wrong. I would love do for someone what he did for me.

I agree with everything here. Based on my experience the original propeller is all about top speed. Better take off performance doesn't sell Mooneys, Going 2.05 knots faster does. Comparing equal technology propellers it makes sense that a 3 blade would give up some top speed in exchange for the benefits any 3 blade propeller gives. Like everything in avation there is no free lunch so in order to gain all of the benefits with no performance loss. It is going to co$t you. I paid $14K a year ago.

I made this when I got mine.

Agreed there are exceptions, the F model I fly has 1018UL. With the exception of some trainers most common light twins have 15-1600 UL.

A few things to be fair to 310s and twins in general, Not all parts cost 3 times. in fact many of the parts are the same and when you get to the airframe they only have one. If all Mooneys had 4 cylinder engines then yes there would be 3 times the cylinders. At the other end of Mooneys a quick look on Airpower shows you can buy 2 factory IO-470s for a 310 or Baron for one engine on a Bravo. A small engine (IO-470) 310/baron usually burns 25-28 GPH ROP, I personally run a Baron at 22 LOP. compared to a J typical 10GPH Close to 3 only if you running the twins at a high power. 20% faster in cruise but they climb at a much higher rate typically going faster as well. Useful load is the big one and the only reason I fly a twin. Most Mooneys have around 900 useful load. yes there are the few around 1000 and some very rare examples like striped Eagles that approach 1100. Most small engine Barons 310s have 15-1600 Useful and some rare examples around 17-1800. They do need to use up some of it to carry the extra fuel needed but they still have a better useful load. At most twice the cost to repair from a gear up. while you do have 2 engines to fix you still only have one airframe to repair the sheet metal, flaps, etc and that can be a big part of the bill. The reason I bring all this up is because someone reading MooneySpace my want to buy a twin and unless you are comparing a Mooney 201 to a turbo 310 or 340 it doesn't cost three times as much to run. I learned all of this from owning a 201, partner in a Baron along with other friends that own twins.