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I have the 3 inch extensions installed and no problem with the pedals...

if the question is for me, VLOC and CDI was working on the HSI, but not GS on the same HSI.

Hi, Is there a way one can get their hands on the electronic versions of the M20K technical service manual, ideally one the 1979 year production. I have couple of technical stuff I want to understand and they are not detailed enough in the POH. Thanks !

At the risk of asking a dumb question, why was a go-around not an option if you had a feeling the landing will not end well ?, was this a dead stick landing ?

Yeah one thing that was different in my case was that the obstacle and safetaxi were expired for more than 12 months, the NAV had expired on april 30th as show in Maurauder's pictures, but the rest was expired for more than a year. Anyway not sure why it was not working and why it is now, just don't like not knowing, my garmin dealer said that he will check a bit the connections after the software upgrade from 5.0 to 5.13. BTW, 5.13 is supposed to get rid of the annoying trailing 0 at the end of frequencies, where with 5.0 if you are entering 126.7, you have to enter 126.70 befor enter becomes availble and obstacle is much improved according to the documentation.

Well called garmin tech support yesterday and they said the same thing. One very unlikley but possible reason the guy at tech support told me is that the GTN has com board, a nav board etc.... and maybe there was a glitch with the nav software and by updating, it removed the glitch, any way, the full software on my GTN is scheduled to be upgraded from 5.0 to 5.13, so will see if the problem has gone completely or not !

Good news, it seems there were able to find someone to help at the airport and he was able figure out that it was the air valvue and not an actual flat, they did a temporary fix on it, they are departing tomorrow, so hopefully it will hold. Thanks again for all the help !!!

thanks to all, he just texted me saying he was on his way to the airport from the city, as the city is quite a ways from the airport and it was the local airport manager calling me to inform of the flat ( since last time this plane was in AC, I was the PIC ). Hopefullly he has figured out a way to fix it, he willl text me and let me know, and I will update the thread. It is so nice to hear people willing to fly to bring him a tire, I would do the same if I had a spare tire and tube, even if I'm about 2h of flight away with the Rocket. Thanks again to all...

thanks to both... I have emailed him the information Cris..

Hi, happy memorial day weekend to all US Pilots. I have a friend piloting my old Beech Sundowner stuck in Atlantic City NJ with a flat, can't find an FBO that is open to sell him a replacement tire or mecanic to help him change it since he dos'nt have any tools on the plane to do it. I think it is the same 6 ply tires as the Mooney tires from what I remember from old Sundowner POH. I'm trying to help him out with any contacts that you might have, that is willing to help him out. He is supposed to be at work on Sunday back here in Montreal and stuck in AC with the flat. He was none amused by my suggestion of taking the nose gear and put it on the main and do a wheelie takeoff and landing Thanks for any help !!!

Well my NAV was up to date, but not the rest... Really strange, I will call Garmin and ask tomorrow..

I am most probably !!!

Well, went and did 1.5h of simulated IFR approches on the Rocket, ILS glide Scope worked as published, glad it was only the GTN not being up to date that was causing that, or at least I guess. Since before the GTN update, ILS flag would not move at all during GTN test after power on.. Thanks for all the advise here !!!

Sled, I got couple of videos that are a bit large in file size, I haven't converted them to .mov format, if you want I can send them by email or if you have a dropbox or something. Some of them are already on my facebook, including the one when I was right seat with you.

Thanks guys, I will give them a shout and let you guys know who gets the contract...

Thanks guys, I will give them all a shout and see how comes up with the best deal !!!

Hi, I got to renew my insurance in a bout 40 days and I'm starting to shop around for potential providers. For now I know of Charette Assurance ( Insurance Brooker ) and COPA in Canada. Does anyone know other reputable and reasonable haul and full aircraft and passenger insurance provider in Canada. right now the aircraft is insured for 150K all risks in flight and ground, plus 1M DM/BC including passengers. Thanks !!!

It would have been great to meet you there, I was the only Rocket owner there.

Glad you are here to tell the story, you would'nt mind if I don't follow suit !!!

Clarence, the sewing where the ring holds the extra belt ( to tighten or loosen the lower part not the shoulder part ). I will see tomorrow about GJ's Belts, but the belt it self was not damaged, just the sewing at the very end.

Yeah having someone else there would have helped, but since I was alone in the plane, it was impossible to do from the left seat and still hand fly during climb.

Ok, so I take this as every small incident you survive and consider it as a lesson learned, so here is what happend to me yesterday as I was leaving the weekend gathering of Mooney Caravan in Martinsburg ( Btw, amazing time, great Mooney guys and flights during the event ). As I was taking off, after couple hundred of feet of altitude gain, while I was cleaing up the aircraft by bringin up the flaps and gear, I heard a big wind noise and just noticed that my co-pillot door had opend a bit. Now I can swear that I had check the door during runup as it is in my list, but maybe the handle locking it was not all the way in. Anyway, I tried to close it by 1 hand and continue flying with the other, after 5 to 10 seconds of that, I saw that I could not do that with 1 hand only and since I was unwiling to take both hands away and concentrate on the door during intial clim, I decided to level off, call the tower and come back and land with the door open to get it resolved on the ground. Landed sefley, got to close the door, and saw that there was no dammage, took off this time making sure 3 times that the door was well locked... Anyway, no dammage done to the plane, just the seatbelt that was sucked and hanging outside for a short while as the door opened got ripped off a bit and I have to have the sewing redone but noting serious. But it got me wondereing if I could have done better, maybe I could have put the plane on auto-pilot at that time and tried to close the door with both hands, but at that moment, what came to my mind was my training during an emergency, aviate, navigate and communicate.... Just wondering if it has happend to anyone here before and how you handled it... All and all it was more of inconvenience than an emergency, but still unnerving to say the least during initial climb. P.S. New item to add to my check list : if flying alone, make sure to buckle the co-piot seatbelt anyway, just in case

Thanks Drapo, always nice to talk to a fellow Mooney owner in Montreal and around. I was just coming back from the Mooney Caravan in Martinsburg. We should try and have a mooney gathering somewhere around here in the near future. Thanks for the contact info, i will try to get in touch with him.

Had a great day today flying both lead and then later wingman, Adam is a great safety pilot and put alot of effort organizing it. Would love to do it again soon. Thanks for all the efforts for organizing this weekend !

Today before flying to Martinsburg for the Caravan, I updated the nav, terrain and safetaxy on the GTN, now when turing it on, in the test mode, the Glide Slope flag is removed and glide slope indicator moves. It was not doing that before, so I guess it is a good thing. I will have to try it with my instructor.