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No, it seems reasonable, except the lease is so short that they could raise it significantly each 5 years. Just to play devils advocate, say it raises to $3k lease in 5 years and $10k after 10. Maybe that still works, but I like more certainty with my expensive building on someone else’s land…

Id be interested in one as well. I put a $300 down payment on a $600 intake boot to put on my shelf, this part also seems reasonable to have on the shelf. It would be nice if one of the MSCs would buy 10-20 sets to keep the fleet going though because it’s kind of rare to have to replace them, but if you need it, you’re grounded without.

Eric mentioned it, but the land lease terms are key. Definitely want to know who owns the land, and if it’s not you, how long do you have a lease and how is the renewal process going to work? Most public airports, you can build/own the hangar but the airport owns the land. You might get a 30 or 50 year lease… if you’re buying a 25 year old hangar, you need to know what happens at the end of the lease.

I get that there’s a lot of aerodynamics and design in this, but the basic vfr and ifr recovery techniques still apply perfectly. First, practice instruments a lot so you don’t get in an unintentional spiral. If you do, power off, roll level, pull up (gently). I would expect my instrument students to successfully recover from a (admittedly not near Vne) spiral during unusual attitude training. If we’re not current and end up in a bad situation, or delay the appropriate recovery long enough there are a myriad of ways to hit the ground or rip the wings off any airplane.

Yes, it does both. There’s a mixing box that mixes fresh vent air from the right naca vent and hot air from the heater. Temperature is dependent on how you pull the heat and vent knobs. I was just working on my mixer box last weekend.

Oh man, if it’s cold in the backseat, that vent can blast the heat directly back there too… yeah, that’s a good one to have!

Yeah I needed to think that through better. At least it’s easier to get at that one since it’s not compressed by the gear! Does it easily go right back in the same spot or do you have to put it on jacks and move the gear around to get it positioned right? If the switch doesn’t activate at the right time, it can get ugly I think, but more-so on the older models.

Funny how the gear won’t go up even when the gear stop tab isn’t pressing on that switch. In fact, when the gear is down, that switch isn’t doing anything, except apparently preventing the gear from going up?

To close this out, my oil pressure has returned to where it has always been. It seems to have happened slowly over the last month. Was it the warming temperatures or the oil “breaking in”? I don’t know. Today i flew at +3 oat at 10,500’ and the oil temp was about 4 degrees warmer than previously (180 vs 184), but the pressure was back down to 76/77 where I’m use to it. After the oil change, i was seeing ~-10 oat and maybe 180 oil temp. The oil now has about 12 hours on it.

I believe you about the alkaline/corrosiveness, but I find it funny that Dawn is mentioned by name in the POH for the Meridian I fly as an approved cleaning soap. I think the chances of corrosion in our older planes is probably much higher - hopefully the newer paint and aluminum coatings are superior…

I’m guessing we all remember flying around in clapped out -172s completely without headphones? I probably have 300+ hours in various pistons without intercoms or headphones between flying with my dad and my own training in the late 80 / early 90s. Obviously they should’ve been upgraded since then, but it wasn’t all that surprising to see airplanes with a speaker and hand mike in the 80s. Between the airplanes and being very close to a 5” gun on a destroyer in Vietnam, my dad wears two hearing aids…

I guess i got lucky when I went there. I was staying in Carson City, NV. Flew it over and my wife met me with the car. We took a vacation up pacific coast highway. She drove me back over to pick it up when it was done. Easy peasy.

Ha! Logistical nightmare?! One way rental? One way flight? Buddy’s mooney? I’m kind of messing with you because if I don’t use the one shop here in town, it’s like 350 miles to the nearest “big city”.

Yeah I’ve used the Mcguires as well. It can be mixed at a low strength with water and used where needed. It shouldn’t take much work. Once you’ve got the basic dust/grime off, you can normally use the blue wash/wax all. If you use the wash/wax pink degreaser version on the bottom, it will do pretty good on oil and exhaust.

Yes, we have lots of threads on this. I’ve had a Surefly for ~4 years on an io-360. We have people with them on turbos and even someone that has two. Whatvtype of engine do you have? What would you like to know? Here’s a really old thread :

There are a few functions you won’t get such as vnav or smart glide which are available with a gtn series gps.

Ha! You should be nervous or lets say thorough even after a great shop works on it! I don’t think you’ll find perfection, but Top Gun in Stockton (short flight) has a lot of happy customers. I went there once for annual and I happened to be living nearby. They definitely know Mooney. You could certainly do worse.

I’m gonna be out there Wednesday, I’ll check for it. Worst case, you could do what my avionics shop did and splice the wires instead of using the connector. How often do you really need to disconnect it?

Maybe I can’t help, but here’s a little background… there are two versions of that cannon plug. The older one like that is fatter and metal. The newer one is smaller and plastic. I had the bigger, older one and I replaced my voltage regulator. Unfortunately, the newer Zeftronics voltage regulator came with the smaller plastic one. although I have an older electronics voltage regular that had the large cannon plug. Then I had an avionics shop install the voltage regulator. Instead of using the cannon plug as designed, they chopped off both ends and wired it together themselves. It works fine and the wiring looks solid. I’m not a fan of that solution, but you may or may not need to find that exact cannon plug. If I look around in my hanger, I may have the old metal one. If you really want it, let me know and I’ll look for it. If you order a new canon plug voltage regulator from Zeftronics, you may be able to specify the canon plug type.

The koch chart can also help where poh data doesn’t exist. This faa pamphlet is actually pretty useful: https://www.faasafety.gov/files/events/nm/nm09/2013/nm0951144/density_altitude.pdf

That’s real good to know as mine is just like yours (no baggage door release). Only I usually have 2 eight year olds and my wife in there with me, and even if we’re not in sweltering heat, that’s gonna be some serious torture!

Also, the senders can get stuck at a certain point. It is possible to gently move them and see if that changes the indication. Depending on the tank setup, some are more difficult/impossible to reach…

The military does and I have seen accidents happen with it there too. A fighter buried up to its canopy. our corporate plane was repaired (it was fairly new) although it got new engines because that stuff is pretty bad for stuff. It didn’t give me a warm fuzzy about other sensitive parts…

I saw a picture of a hanger with 3 large corporate jets filled roughly 15 feet high (maybe higher, but it was remarkably high) with fire retardant foam. Several of the jets had open doors when this happened…. There was no fire. Fbo was having the fire system checked out.

You’ll be fine there. Couple of suggestions…. Make sure you fly in the morning when it’s cool and there’s less turbulence/winds around the mountains. Have a good technique for leaning for takeoff and know how to use it (full power runup or target egt). Lighter is better, so don’t take lots of extra gas (it’s $$ there anyway). Climb out might be more interesting than takeoff. You will climb out at a slower rate. You’ll need to lean, but keep track of chts so you keep the engine happy. ~120mph is still good. Terrain is to the east and west. Expect to climb for a whilst north/south before turning.