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I think the "full rich minus one turn" is a problem. I believe the engine should run even at full rich. I've never owned a naturally aspirated fuel injected Mooney, but my carby C would run at full rich up to over 8000 ft with no problem. It would produce better HP if I'd lean for best power, but it certainly wouldn't cough and die. Does it only cough and want to die at idle? Will it run at full throttle full rich?

I resemble that remark!

To execute a transaction you must have a serious buyer and a serious seller. A 10% cash deposit, an agreed upon price pending pre-buy, and a signed contract to buy with pre-buy conditions spelled out clearly - should be enough to prove the buyer serious and able. If that's not enough for the seller to allow the plane to be inspected by an MSC and especially a shop other than the one that has been doing the maintenance/annuals recently - I'd say the seller is not serious. If either party is not serious about the transaction, it's time to move on.

I don't understand. Do you mean a checkout for say rental purposes? I think that would be completely different. I'm talking about what I was looking for in a CFI to get me from zero to a private certificate.

I interviewed five CFI's and flew with three of them before I settled on one. And I used that one through the Private, Instrument, Mooney transition, and now working on the CPL. I was looking for some very specific things. They wouldn't be applicable to everyone, but they were important for me. I was fully transparent with all of them about the fact that I was interviewing CFI's and paid each for their time. Treat me like an adult and not like a school boy. Let me set my own pace and direct my own learning. Suggest, but don't assign homework. Ground school and the written exam are my responsibility, I just need you to show me how to fly the airplane. I wasn't interested in paying for 30 min or an hour of brief/debrief at every lesson. In the airplane, I'm paying to do the flying, not to sit there while you show off your flying skills. A demonstration of a maneuver is reasonable, but repeatedly taking the controls every time I do something wrong, is not. And along with this line, please don't try to impress on me how difficult or dangerous flying is. Lots of people do it, it can't be all that difficult. I will not be able to fly on a regular schedule, but will fly whenever I have time, money, the airplane is available, the CFI is available and the weather conditions are appropriate. I might or might not finish or ever get the certificate. But that's on me. It's my time, and my money, and I'll waste it how I like. This would likely not be the best approach for a young person trying to make a career of flying. But for a middle aged guy doing this as nothing more than a hobby, it worked for me and was a wonderful, and enjoyable experience all the way though. The CFI and I continue to be close friends and I hope to someday obtain my own CFI rating under his tutelage.

The accessible copy on the iPad and the original on back on the hat rack.

I've heard of solutions where you can put a sleeve of some sort that slides down over the buckle, or even bending the buckle latch inward just a smidge. But for me the most effective solution was just Time in Type. You'll eventually get far enough ahead of the airplane that you can know to adjust your grip for a split second as the j-bar clears the buckles.

Hi Jim, I was not aware of this. But it's interesting. I just spent a few minutes looking at it and see some pretty serious security flaws with that Map that I'm trying to avoid with mine. I think it was because it was a self-service map. Everyone was expected to add themselves. As I'm here on a business trip in Chile, and I'll be off to Kenya for the next couple of weeks, it's not all that easy to keep up with the requests to add members, but I do my best to keep up with it as I can. I've thought it would be much easier if I just had everyone add themselves. But in this age of internet bots and identity theft, I really want to keep the security of personal information as tight as possible and that means I have to control it myself. So I'll do it. I hope everyone finds the map useful and I'll plan to maintain it as long as I can, and when I can't I'll hand it off to someone to continue.

If you use the search feature, and put in a city name, it will list all the members in the city. I'm aware of the situation and have tried a couple of different solutions. This is what I have at the moment.

I'm pretty sure it was a Bonanza A36 with the back doors off.

Thanks guys. I've always been a bit of a geek for maps. I'm enjoying the project.

There is a secret move that can be done with the yoke to automate that last 3 inches.

No With a manual gear Mooney, you're best off getting the gear in the wells ASAP on positive rate of climb. The tires shouldn't be scuffing or touching anything in the wells if they're sized correctly. You can extend the gear just as fast if you need to get back on the ground. You'll climb much faster which equals safety. You'll also reduce engine heating before it gets started... and besides all the safety benefits, it looks cooler as well

You could start by replacing the coffee grinder that is your beacon. It's a power hog and for $500 you can replace it with a blindingly bright, (don't look at it directly without a welding mask on), LED version that just sips the power.

I'd be up for a weekend fly-in and motorcycle tour. Fly to somewhere in Western NC in the Mooney and rent a bike for a day or two of riding through the area, Blue Ridge Parkway, Tail of the Dragon, Cherokee, Fontana Dam, Mount Pisgah, etc. We don't need a tour guide, or organized (pay for) excursion. I've already got the maps for it somewhere :-)

It's an admirable effort, but there are much cheaper/easier ways to achieve the same outcome. As @N6758N says, start with LED landing lights. I'd also to the Generator to Alternator conversion ASAP. It's a pretty common upgrade. Then move on to replacing all your lights with LED's. And finally every time you upgrade a radio, nav, instrument, etc, you'll likely also be reducing the amp draw as well. And those upgrades will pay much better dividends. Better to upgrade the antiques in your panel rather than upgrade the electrical system to support the antiques.

The worst thing about flying into Asheville, is that you can't bring the motorcycle that way. Stick a pin in the map in Asheville and draw a circle 100 miles in diameter. That is some of the best motorcycle riding anywhere in the country. I went to high school in Asheville, and my grandparents lived there until they passed away a few years ago. It's one of my favorite places in the the whole US.

...and likely some STC's involved.

It'd be a lot cheaper to sell and go buy a 28v bird.

Brad, First you'll need to add either an airport or city to your profile as the Location. That will get you on the map. Let me know when you've done that and I can send you the link.

Someone will be along soon to quote the POH and the requirement to use flaps for landing a Mooney.

Mooney doesn't make or sell Suburbans. Neither does Porsche. Meanwhile Chevy sells both Suburbans and the Camero. I'm fine with my two person and a dog airplane. I also drive a 2+2 car.

Replacing the EI UGP-16 with an Insight G2 would give you an STC'd Primary instrument for CHT, EGT. It would also include full engine logging, fuel flow and carb temp which is nice for a C to have. It's about a $2000 instrument. I'd beat the seller up for the $2000 and tell him you'll eat the installation. Bottom line, I believe the Pre-buy would say that not having CHT or Amps will be an Airworthy item.

Unless you're going into a short strip, flaps are not required for landing a Mooney, even landing it well. I've done more landings without flaps then with. Especially in a C.