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I’d fix them asap. Garmin is telling dealers they have a fixed amount of parts left for the 430’s and will stop support once they’re gone. That and supply chain issues for old tech displays and electronics means the end is in sight

Just because you’re paying new BMW money doesn’t mean you’re getting a new BMW. There are no perfect 50 year old planes.

In decades of ownership I’ve never really figured this out. When the friction is other than full tight there is later movement allowed by all the controls in the quadrant. This means it’s often the case that when you pull the throttle to idle it misses hitting the gear warning switch. Anyone come up with a solution to this? Maybe fab a bar on the switch to ensure the throttle can’t miss it?

Aerox customer for the last 20 years. SkyOx is fine if you’re on a tight budget.

Does it just keep leaking then?

I have about 5 years 200 hours on my hub since the last tear down and reseal. After last annual I’m seeing small amount of grease on each blade. All these annuals pumping a couple pumps of grease I wonder if the prop just overfilled and purged some? I’ve never seen grease come out the opposite open zerk. I’ve heard some prop people say a little grease isn’t an issue??? Could it have just been too much eventually?

I'm a bit of a Wings collector. I have level 14 of basic wings and enough credits to submit for level 15. However, one thing that doesn't seem to provide wings credit is a checkride for a new category. Am I just missing it? I've taken my private and commercial helicopter. I'll be taking my helicopter CFI soon. But it appears you can only get wings credit for your initial ride at that level? -Robert

As long as you purchase that Mooney sticker from Mooney you are good.

A legitimate engraver will require a letter on mooneys letter head approving it. The law doesn’t have an exception for personal use of a trademark

I think people change them too often. 50 hours regardless of calendar time is good.

They expect another 8,000 to arrive end of next month

Just thinking it’s been awhile since I’ve been asked to ident. This is any airspace from E to B and I’ve not been asked. Is this a change to the atc system or just an oddity?

So for only $500 I just swapped my RC Allen attitude with a factory reman from aircraft spruce. Even though this is the third attitude indicator in my panel I didn’t want to have it non functional. I recall paying a shop more than that to overhaul my Sigma-tech and then having them redo it when it didn’t work. -Robert

The part I don’t understand is weight. I rarely can take full fuel in my Mooney. So will you always be limited to full fuel weight???

Im nearly always in mid teens on cross countries in my F. Depends on terrain etc. i don’t often go over 16,000.

The poh cruise data that came with my f model only goes up to 12,500. Nearly all my flights are above that. I saw a 67 f model poh that includes 15,000. Why did they drop that with the 76?? Also see the 77 J only goes to 14,000. Was Mooney too lazy to take the planes up to cruise?

what type of flying would you classify as being hard on an injector. The only time I’ve ever seen issues is when they’ve been opened and something got in them. Like a piece of dust

If you have an engine monitor you can tell without removing them. Pretty rare to find anything.

there used to be a bendix ignition to test this every 100 hours until the newer models ride this

Exchange gyro already ordered. Will be here tomorrow. But since it’s not required for ifr won’t affect my trip next week if I don’t get it jn.

Over decades I've had both gyro and solid state attitude indicators fail. The understanding has always been you can't really predict when they're going to fail. But maybe you can?? About a year ago I noticed my vacuum attitude started a high frequency vibration. It still otherwise worked well. Since its really a third attitude indicator for me and not required for ifr flight I didn't do much about it. Then the other day it tumbled and spun. Doing some research I think I know why. A build up dirt and a loss of lubrication slowly adds friction to a spinning gyro. As a result the gyro spins slower for the same amount of applied vacuum. The auto erection feature of the gyro works by throwing off some of the vacuum which works to put the gyro in straight/level flight. This force is very strong when the gyro is slow and spinning up resulting in the quick erection we see. In cruise this force is resisted by rigidity in space so its much less, but still helps to right the gyro (if you fly in a sustained turn long enough your mechanical gyro will slowly return to level). Well apparently this wiggle I noticed was the force of the erection feature slightly fighting against the rigidity of the my gyro because the RPM of my gyro had degraded. Since we have no direct way to measure gyro RPM we don't know its failing but the force of the erection feature starting to gain over the force the the spinning gyro's rigidity essentially is telling you that. Thoughts? -Robert

Good timing as Aopa just sent out a notice of membership fee increases.

My F model meets tha criteria no problem. I will say that at gross mooneys require some care getting off the ground. Have patience getting off the ground and climbing especially when hot. If you get impatient and try to yank it off the ground before it’s flying or point the nose up high in the climb you’ll never climb. Our wings like airspeed. The downside of only 200hp is you can’t power out of hamfisted flying.

Didn't have the suffocation sticker too? -Robert

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