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    I love my F, but honestly, if I could have afforded an equally maintained and outfitted J while keeping enough cash in my maintenance slush fund I would have done it. I always miss the extra 10-15 knots. I'm sure if i had a J, I'd rather have a K. Buy as much airplane as you can comfortably afford while keeping a reasonable slush fund for maintenance and first year gottchas. Operating costs for e, f, and j are roughly the same.
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    Slightly more $$, there's another/better option... remove the rotating beacon altogether and replace wingtip and tail lights with led strobe/position lights. Removing the beacon has to get like 5 knots, right! Mine came from AeroLed in Boise. Great customer service when I had to replace one due to water leaking into it (free). I don't know how much the whole setup cost as previous owner did it. Also mine got a field approval, but they have TSO units. Led light should never need replaced and draw very little power.
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    Im with marauder... i did the waas gps and adsb transponder recently. Super nice, but big hit to the wallet and i just did an upgrade to my 430 to make it waas. The gtx345 was another $6k installed. That being said, adsb in and out is very nice!
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    It depends... The ADSB cost could be fairly low to get one of the UAT units that comes with a gps and uses your current transponder. Still probably ~$2-3k minimum and that won't give you gps for navigating, only to meet adsb requirements. If you installed an ifr gps and adsb transponder, you're talking $10k+ On the low end. Does the airplane have autopilot and is that something you want? That's even more $$ to add than adsb. Good luck! I really enjoy my 1968 F.
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    Sold, thanks to Mooneyspace!
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    Sold it on Ebay. There seem to be a lot of used transponders out there with all the ADS-B updates going on... GTX 345 is really nice!
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    How about $350... anyone interested? Nice transponder...
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    Stratus 2 for sale. Works perfectly, long battery life. Gives, ADS-B in (All ADS-B weather and some Traffic) as well as GPS source and AHRS for Synthetic vision apps (Foreflight). Comes complete with original packaging, rubber anti-slip dash mount, and recharger. If you don't have synthetic vision, you should!! $500. (strong headwind in picture, trust me!!)
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    $250 at Felts in Spokane, shared with one other plane and 3-5 cars. Electricity, but no heat. Big, finicky sliding doors. Feeling lucky though as I only found this one hangar while looking at three close airports and the owner is awesome as well as the other guys around the airport. Most hangars seem to have actual planes in them too!
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    With your current avionics I'd put in the GTX345 regardless of desire to fly above 18k. I also had GTX327 and 430W, upgraded last week and couldn't be happier. Should cost about $6000 including the roughly 10-15 hours of install, programming, testing, & paperwork.
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    I fly a C172 with eis at work often, and it sure does start nice, run smooth, and it seems faster, but I haven't done any measurement for that. I like it so much, I was starting to think about eis on the Mooney, but the last thing I want to do is something that might shorten the life of my engine by increasing temps/pressures beyond reason. Typically I fly around 8-10,000, 60-70% power at peak or slightly lean of peak. She runs smoothly deep lop, but I find significant loss of speed as I go lop. The cht temps are always below 350 in cruise. Its well instrumented with JPI 930. Stupid questions that I don't have time to figure out right now... what timing is my io-360 a1a on the 1968 M20F supposed to have? 20 or 25 btdc? Does the eis change this timing at wot cruise or just during start and low power operations to keep it smooth?
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    Garmin GTX 327 removed for upgrade to ADS B. $500. Works perfectly, yellow tag from install. $500. Shipping included to US. PM me for more info. Rags.
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    Both models have enough gas for 6+ hours... You probably don't want to sit in them for more than 4. If your mission is less than ~550nm, an F would be fine. To be honest, at 3 hours into the flight you'll be wishing for a J so you can get there 10 minutes faster. I have an F, it's great, but we'll always want more speed. If you can afford the purchase price of a nice J, go for it. Maintenance between the two will be about the same.
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    Test flight today with the twins (~4 months old)! Success! Bought two cheap (and small-ish) car seats for semi-permanent installation in the airplane. Have to coordinate for car seats at the destination since they are tough to get in/out without pulling copilot seat. Orchestrating the logistics of getting in and out is the hardest part and bears serious consideration if you'll be on a ramp when it's warm outside. 9,500' over the northern Idaho Mtns! Very slow decent... Whoever said they'd be asleep by the time the gear was up lied to me. They were wide eyed for the first 15 minutes... then passed out and slept through everything (including my landing) until we pulled them out to shove them in the air conditioned car. Thanks for the help and ideas! Rags
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    I like the slow flight idea, but how about something a little more fun to help out your landings... Go find a taildragger and a good instructor to do your signoff. It's a lot of fun, a bit humbling, and it will really force you to land well. You think your Mooney swerved at touchdown? You ain't seen nothing! seriously, it's well worth it and fun.
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    Thanks. Looks like I've got a round valve on an arm. Hoping i just adjust the end stop as the cable slides freely over it's entire throw. Thanks for the insight!
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    I love Mooney pilots.
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    Once.
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    I have a 1968 F model and the cabin heat is always on at least a little. It does adjust with the control in the cabin, just never completely shuts off. It's nice in the winter, but it's getting a bit warm as the weather warms up! I'd like to know the right way to adjust it. I poked around in the engine compartment and I see where the heater control rod from the cabin moves a lever back and forth on a metal box connected to the firewall. It looks like there's a way to loosen the nut holding the rod to the lever, adjust it and retighten (cotter pin on there too). Is this the correct place to adjust that or do I need to open up something else? thanks!
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    My STEC 30 w/Alt Hold also only does half standard rate turns in HDG mode (hooked up to King HSI 525 heading bug). I have GPSS and it will do full STD rate turns when following the GPSS turns at waypoints. No idea why HDG mode only does half. I chalked it up to an internal setting or unknown gremlins and moved on because everything else works fine and I don't want to mess with it. The rocking back and forth would concern me though, mine is rock solid on altitude and heading / track. You have an MSC right there in Portland (Troutdale) - recommend a thorough pre-buy of the E model. And then you can give me a recommendation on their shop too! I just moved to Spokane and was thinking of taking mine to the Troutdale MSC for annual this summer. Rags
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    Thanks guys!
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    Funny, i have a gold ringed blue comforter just like your daughter is sleeping on.. '95, you?
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    Thankfully paid off the plane and got through the first two very expensive annuals before the twins showed up. Got a $250/month hangar now and trying to keep costs down on the plane. Fingers crossed that I'm through the most expensive annuals for a while... Top Gun was very good and very thorough and very expensive! Yeah, i put the seat all the way forward and lean it forward a bit, but not nearly enough room to slide a carseat through. I think it's because i have a fancy interior with built in headrests and ergonomic seats put in by previous owner... the whole thing would be easier if I wasn't 6'3" because i need my seat all the way back in the last detent. i will document the solution and post some pics...
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    Ok, i measured today... It's going to be tight! How hard is it to take the seat back off the copilot seat and just leave the base? Mine are high with built in headrest. If i could do that, it's easy... Wife seats in back on co pilot side with one car seat in front of her and one behind me. Does the seat back come off easy?
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    Brad and Jim, thanks so much for those photos, there's hope! I think the next couple of years with carseats will be the hard time. Jim, your gurls look great back there without the seats! Very comfortable! I'm going to measure the back seat carefully and then hit Baby's R Us and Wallyworld to find the narrowest seats. I just hope they haven't got too much bigger in the last few years! Seriously, today's carseats are much safer, but they are huge! thanks again for the hope! drew
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