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If this is the passenger yoke, I would also guess getting bumped and grabbed during ingress and egress to the plane has something to do with the stress cracks. I would have to guess Mooney did not plan for cast aluminum from the mid 1900s to not crack. Sent this to Jason at the FAA. Jacob, for the Mooney Control Wheel ACS I noticed it covered all the F models. The later F models I have a 75 F do not use that kind of control wheel. Those are the "slim" Wheel which are on earlier models. Mine has the "mongo" control wheels More like on a J model This is from the Parts Manual #105 The "mongo" control wheel have different design for the Control Shaft interface. The interface hole sits more in the body of the yoke so there is more material to support the control shaft. I noticed in the ACS picture the set screw threaded hole was starting to crack around it. Someone has put way too much torque on this poor wheel.

Not sure what Goop is made from. Probably hog fat renderings or something natural. I have also got it at Home Depot or Walmart. Good for cleaning your hands also

The sprayer that you use with mineral spirit works pretty good on the engine and the belly. Goop hand cleaner and blue rags is cheaper.

I believe that is just a raspberry PI in a 3D printed box. Dremel tool is your friend. Then just follow the steps to redo the micro SD card. https://stratux.me/

gives a new meaning to hot swap.

Wing drain or colator drain? Try exercising it. Then replace it. Rubber seals get old and fail.

Like died how? You might be able to get a new micro card with loaded software on it for the raspberry pi

Depending on how much was done. I will do one or two fast taxi. Then come back and check everything. Then circle up over the airport. land and check things. Then the bird is ready to fly.

You can unscrew the plexiglass cover. Clean out the gunk. Check the tightness of the indicator (piece of plastic) on the Bowden wire. Make a new one out of a plastic cutting board from wally world and put it back together.

call https://www.aircrafthose.com/ In theory you can order new hose and reuse the fittings. Some would say you need to pressure test the hose.

I took my strobe Nav lights off my 75 F model last year, One was not strobing, never tested it assumed it was the power supply. Would sell both sides as a lot.

considering the whole northwest of 1/4 of New Mexico is Reservation and most of the Eastern half of Oklahoma, it is hard not to travel through Reservation Lands on State Highways or Interstate Highways. Knowing the history helps to understand how things go. Like in the 50s (mid 1900s) kids were taken to white man's school to destroy the culture. So the elders kind of don't like white people. They would believe the reason for destroying the culture is due to most of the Reservations if the blood line gets diluted enough the land will revert back to the US Government. Also when you go to places like West Texas it's just a couple of generations removed from bad things the Government did to them. That culture and heritage still exist today. Most of them will tell you giving up their guns to the Government was a mistake.

When ATC calls with an urgent voice you can hear beeping in the back ground and telling you to climb Immediately. I believe I went right also as well as climbing.

It's like going on a cruise ship, once you are 8-16 miles offshore the US laws are not in play. Works both ways, now that his plane is back the odds that the tribe can seize it are very small. The FAA is in play with federal statutes. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/32

It's not much different than my standard mid 45 entry to downwind. Those are flown with the runway 1/3 under the wing from the tip. Hit mid field 500 ft high from TAP reduce throttle a bit. Then reduce throttle more when you are at threshold on downwind put your gear down. (this is standard for me) Keep turning add flaps as needed. I usually land half flaps only if I am high or the airport demands will I be full flaps. Or if the Mooney Safety instructor demands that I land full flaps. No turns under 90mph without flaps. It's kind of just a cool circle to land learning to manage energy. I would say it is safer than going wide to mix and do a mid 45 downwind entry. You can always break it off and enter an upwind and fly the whole pattern if someone else shows up.

If there is a straight in and less than nobody in the pattern, It's time for an overhead break or as the aim calls it an overhead maneuver. I announce what I am doing. "overhead break joining the downwind at mid field" "Break overhead the field, Turning for left downwind" "Turning Downwind from mid field" makes for a nice circle to land. Gives me a chance to check things out and improve SA.

All this is interesting in the light of all of us pilots are supposed to have a flight review every 2 years.

I am located 1.37 miles from the normally active (see what I did there) runway threshold of an airport that used to be a very popular lunch spot. Listening to the radio one day listening to position reports and then spotting the plane was entertaining to say the least. Pretty much no one did good position reports. That was 12 years ago. Hopefully things have improved with more GPSs and ADSB.

They are trying to make a buck. They are less than 50 feet from stuff all day long. Not excusing it, just what I learned. I know to watch out for at airports with crop dusters. My guess is the airport did not have a taxi way

I find that people that flying large patterns in slower aircraft are more annoying than what they say on the radio. We are all up there to get safely on the ground as long as meanings are conveyed it's all good. What is really interesting the super long radio transmission but they still don't convey meaning. I just ask. Had this happen recently, guy was saying everything but his intentions about the pattern. I think this is caused because everybody thinks they are watching their screens with ADSB. Ended up "Tell me what you are going to do when you get to the airport?" Also I will call my number in the pattern. "Cool I will be number 2 behind the Cessna"

I changed it to say "Clear of Runway" just to annoy the nit pickers. It's just a nicety to give to the other people like me that keep a tight pattern and don't fly 747 patterns in a SEL.

mostly likely is tighten the fuel line clamps or tighten the fuel sender screws. the fuel sender gaskets if they need replacing Can be obtained here. Buy 4 of them. https://www.brownaircraft.com/aviation-seals-s/22.htm?srsltid=AfmBOoq4PgLntrAGGd8uj18tsDPYQQ53_MC1d7Z9TFX3Uy9fuKhAefWD You can also get the Gasket for the fuel coolator from them. So order that too.

Page one of this thread at the bottom says that the VR415 is on the Mooney model m20K TCDS.

Textron shows a VR415F to be listed in the catalog.... https://ww2.txtav.com/Parts/PartSearch/PartsDetail/VR415F Which should be acceptable from the TCDS point of view.

And what is funny about all this is it looks like Zeftronics are using PWM as the technology to regulate the voltage in a fancy box with a Cannon plug. Could probably buy off the shelf for $75.00 YMMV