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  1. geoffb
    Rented one for a trip a couple years ago when between the E type and the 262. Found it felt smaller inside than the E and was a pain to load baggage into, and my wife travels light. Nice control feel and easy to fly. Very much like a Mooney in that it isn't as fast as owners say they are ;-) My father had one many years ago. I think the first delamination issues were in the wing skin trailing edges. A small line of rivets is the repair. Glue is great until it's not.
  2. geoffb
    It flys like a Mooney, just faster and a bit nose heavy. Otherwise, it’s like any other K. You have E experience, so did I and the transition is about zero. Learning to manage the turbocharged engine takes time but the plane flies like a Mooney. More stable in pitch than a short-body
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    252AC is here in Corvallis for sale. None better. I suspect you could arrange a test flight if you’re actually looking to buy. pretty plane, fresh engine, the best maintenance, regular use, zero abuse. If I didn’t aleady have the 262, I’d have bought it. i believe it’s on TAP
  4. geoffb
    Poor old girl can’t find a home. I owned it for 16 years until 2020. Great, if kinda ugly, airplane. Vince did some nice upgrades. Engine is a Lycoming factory OH from 2001 or 2002. Miss it some days. Especially when the 262 is costing me money.
  5. geoffb
    Also, temperature matters. If you on the ground and it’s warm, the outer panels may not wet. The system is very viscosity sensitive. If the fluid is too warm, it can flow out of the inner (lower) panels and never really wet the others. Fly at an altitude 0c or just below and let it run.
  6. geoffb
    thanks for doing this, it's been on my to-do list Miss Piggy is heavy enough that for any sort of short field work I need to consider fuel very closely. In the E it was simple.
  7. geoffb
    My point exactly. To extrapolate from your thought, only the Mod Works or the Mod Squad can provide the STC to install a -MB engine, etc to make a 261/262. Doesn't matter if you have a TCM SB to convert the engine. Doesn't matter if you copy my entire STC documentation package and install per. I believe you can't use an existing STC as approved data for a major mod. No STC from the holder, no mod per the STC. If it were practical to do I think you'd have seen a bootlegged 262 by now. And I'd be starting to collect parts for my bootleg Rocket conversion.
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    MB4B on mine, 12V.
  9. geoffb
    As you live with it and maintain it so that it reliably carries you through the air 100-150 hours per year, every year, you'll begin to appreciate that airplanes made out of airplane stuff can be remarkably reliable and efficient. If you want to mod and tweak, EAB is where you'll want to play.
  10. geoffb
    any chance the Dynon is giving erroneous slip indication at your high angle of attack leading to excessive right rudder input?
  11. geoffb
    This thread highlights why I believe the current pricing craziness won't last. Once the realities of ownership sink in, most of the new, first-time owners who bought into the market since COVID, and there are lots, will get disillusioned and leave. It will be bad enough for guys that bought good airplanes, imagine the guys who bought all the airframes advertised and sold over the last two years that hadn't seen the light of day in decades, got annualled and maybe a tailbeacon hung on and flipped as "low time." I suspect a whole lotta folks will be looking to get out.
  12. geoffb
    Don't all Rockets have the 3,200 lb gross weight increase, whether they were 231 or 252?
  13. geoffb
    If you don't have places you need to be, or the places you need to be are airline friendly, no sense in owning a complex single or a twin. To just experience the joy of flight, something cub-like or Pitts-like makes more sense to me. But I've got places to be, so I pay the freight. I'm also fortunate to have a local shop 200 yards from my hangar with lots of Mooney experience.
  14. geoffb
    Brilliant
  15. geoffb
    there are plenty of examples to the contrary. And what's wrong with a G model?
  16. geoffb
    Coming from an E model. Looking specifically for ILS configuration. In the previous bird I had no problem motoring to intercept at about 120mph, dropping the gear, slowing to about 100-105 and maintaining glide path with the throttle. With this piggy, trying to go down and slow down with no flaps while keeping some manifold pressure in is causing me some fits. Rolling down the glide path at 110 knots is fine unless you want to land from a 200ft breakout. if I pull out more power, I can see issues with CHT dropping below 240F.
  17. geoffb
    Any of you 252 or 262 drivers want to share your approach configurations? Don’t feel like I’ve got the setup nailed. thanks,
  18. geoffb
    Not sure I see the Beech or Piper superiority. In my opinion, the Beechcraft marketing is superior to Beechcraft engineering. Some interesting design choices in a BE35 airframe. They do have nice interiors. Watching Comanche wings oil can in turbulence isn’t super confidence inspiring. Ever seen a Mooney wing skin with stopped-drilled cracks? Neither fall out of the sky, but both have had more structural failures than M20s (metal ones), lots more? Late -35s have excellent useful loads, but cg issues that make it hard to use.
  19. geoffb
    Same
  20. geoffb
    $170K J model? That's a factor. You're paying about 4% on the hull? Sounds about right, even low, for year 1 no make/model. FWIW in 2004 I paid a much higher rate on my E when I got it. I"m paying just under 2% on the hull now with 1,000 hours Mooney time.
  21. geoffb
    I climb at full power, 23.5-24 gph and 120 knots indicated. I get 700+ fpm out of that in the summer and can start shutting the cowl flaps some. In summer, I can't run cowl flaps full shut at 65% ROP, but need to keep them 20-25% open to keep my hottest under 380. yes, you spend more time flying the temperature guage(s) and it can be distracting. Alan, you're in Jersey, keep the S35. On your side of the country, the juice is not worth the squeeze.
  22. geoffb
    If I was going down this path, I'd put the effort into seeing if I could build a Rocket. Just not enough juice in LB to MB/SB for the paperwork squeeze.
  23. geoffb
    Bonanza asking prices have gone full stupid.
  24. geoffb
    got a line on a 252 cowling? is your propeller approved on the -SB? I believe my conversion involved an engine mount swap the 261/262 conversion was more than a data plate change
  25. geoffb
    Paul, I'd been meaning to ask. In an earlier thread you'd mentioned using the Laser wingtip STC to support the install of wingtip nav antennae. Do I recall that correctly? And if so, it's the Archer ones?
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