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It would be my dream panel in my Rocket ( using my GTN 650 and adding a 750 as well ), only thing keeping me from it is about 50 amu's... lol

HI Clarence, We have the service manuals and maintenance manuals from Mooney that usuallly comes on the Mooney flash drive stick, and I have also complied a list of all the SB and SI for the plane from the Mooney site. I will be doing the AD today and hopefully done before we start friday. The plane went trough an import last year where all of this was verified and documented as required by Transport Canada, I was not there when it was done, but it was done by a reputable shop in Bromont and that is what they told me.

How many days would it take usually to do an annual if there is no big issues expected ?

Well, it is annual time for my Rocket, the last time it went into annual, I was not yet an owner, it was part of the import process and partnership process and it was done by my partner's prefered mecanic at a remote airport after I had done a pre-purchase inspection from a recommandation here. Back then, I did'nt know the plane that much, just that it did'nt have any engine or structural problems, no rusting. Anyway, since the closest Canadian MSC is Clarence and he is a bit too far for me to arrange it, this year I have decided to go with a field mecanic annual. I have used this mecanic a few times in the past 2 months, great young guy, he does this work for a closeby busy flight school, and seems very knowledgable and fair priced and wanting to build his clientel and dos'nt seem to turn corners, he is also a private pilot, so I will be asking him to put his ass on the right seat after it is done to fly it. I will be spending the 3 days scheduled for the full annual as his assistant and watchfull owner and we will try to get rid of some of the snaggs that I have, I would really like some advise on what to make sure is done beside what is on Mooney's 100h and annual list. I want a complete and comprehensive annual. I want to see every nocks and cranny of this bird I put my life and son's life in even if it costs me more hours of AP time. The snaggs that we will try to fix for sure are : Change of main right tire since it is getting a bit low on threads, right fuel tank sender is not showing full when completely full, it shows 27Gal, instead of the full 36Gal, and the airspeed saftey switch adjustment that goes off till 100 kts instead of 65. Thanks for any advise, any things I should be making sure my mecanic does. I'm hoping for next year, I can arrange with Clarence and send it to a fully competent Mooney Expert.

Looking forward to it, it will be my 1st...

One of my dream flights is to fly on father's day with my dad and my son, unfortunetly that is not about to happen, my dad dos'nt like flying and drives down to Florida from Montreal every year, the only time they fly anything, it's commercial to Europe, California or Hawaii. The issue is my mom as well, she is a great person and amazing mother and grandmother, but has spent most of her life affraid of alot of things, so she is not letting my dad come even if he would accept to fly with me. Hopefully that will change one day... soon !!!

Now we are pretty much passionate about flying, but a good portion of us I imagine do it as a hobby and not as our main breadwinning profession. Even if this is an old article, it still moves me everytime I read it and the subject of it is one of the main reasons why I bought my Mooney, very nicely written and worth reading every once in a while. When I pick my son from school on friday for the start of my week with him, the 1st thing out of his mouth is not dad I missed you or I love you, it is almost everytime, where are we flying to this weekend... The memories we make on these flights are priceless. http://airfactsjournal.com/2015/06/how-airplanes-bridge-gap-fathers-sons/?utm_source=MarketingEmail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=A15062C&utm_content=AirFactsJournal&_bta_tid=3.Nfw.BxFj1w.C9h9.AXkJsA..AfxxAA.b..l.A2Tp.n.VX2zEA.VX3eVQ.g30m1g&_bta_c=ay6e3nxyb0o20qvmigsehickf2fe7

I have the XRX and both products are well worth it, it is a must have if you don't have any other means of identifying potential traffic in conflict.

Hopefully they will do something similar in the North-east side of the continent, not just Texas or California...

wow Erik, I got to see that in person, may I ask what kind of AMU are we talking about ??? I personally like the ground clearance, I think the 3 blade prop on the Rocket is so low and prop stike is always on my mind when landing, so this might reduce those worries... if you want, you can pm me, if you want to keep the price off public. Thanks !

Going there with the caravan, already have the camping gear ready, looking forward to it as my 1st Oshkosh...

I don't seem to have the button on the top where the bulb goes, so wondering if the lighting for it is in the flap window on mine ?

On my last night flight at MAPA, I was told that I'm supposed to have a light in the trim and flaps window. I don't fly often at night and usually turn the light a bit upper or use my mandatory flash light, so going to my 1st annual, I'like to change the bulb if it is burned, can anyone tell me how that is done ?, is it very complicated ? I have the part list so I can probably find the part number, but wondering if it is worth the effort. Thanks !!

That was my thinking as well, doesn't a full tear down and overhaul resets the engine overhaul time, since they are indicating 1491 SMOH, doesn't that mean they just did the minimum if anything. Just wondering !

I don't have a 930, would love to have one, but I can tell you that JPI tech support is amazing imho, they answer all your questions pretty quickly and a real person. I asked the same question a while back when I was looking at the prices. I have a hoskins 101 Fuel Flow transducer and they told me that I just had to configure the K factor according to what I had and it should work no problem. So most probably in your case as well, no need to change the senders, but check with them 1st.

Thanks, I emailed him here, hope to hear back soon from him.

Hi, Doing my 1st fully owner assisted annual in couple of weeks and looking to buy the required main gear rigging tool that is needed for the proper tension. LASAR is out and not sure when they will get them back. I'm looking to either buy one, or if someone is so nice to lend me one for 1 week at the end of June, I would also be open to lease it as well if you are looking to make a bit of money. Thanks !

Not sure Don, as since I was more busy in making sure I didn't have a serious system's problem, it kind of took me a while to eliminate everything with the plane before thinking it was the headset. My 1st assumption was that I was getting a marker beacon or an ILS identifier or something, that is why I checked both radios. I guess what ever it was, the reset on the headsets solved it.

Wow, thanks HRM, nice to understand what might have been going on, but still don't know why I was not getting the beep when connecting the Zulu 2 to my co-pilot plugs.

Well I had 2 Ipads and my cell open and on the co-pilot seat, but I have had that before, and never heard that sound and the Bluetooth was not trying to connect, not on my phone at least, maybe one of the IPad, since I have paired them a long time ago for music. Didn't thought it might be just an electronic noise signals and I didn't have this issue on my 2nd leg at 13500 feet from KAGC to CYMX.

Don't think so, I didn't have the marker pushed in the audio panel and I did change the navigation frequency on the GTN just to make sure, although it is something my MAPA CFI used during one of our approaches in Chattanooga. Since we don't have Marker beacon's in Canada, I'm not sure how they work. But I did see that it was not pushed in on the audio panel.