MyNameIsNobody

Your quote: "Putin is just protecting his country against the ISIS threat". My response: "Bullcrap".

What parts "fail" on a Mooney? Behind the firewall: Tank reseal. They will seep and depending on degree (service manual outlines based on size of fuel stain) you can live with a seep for years. I would not fuel my plane over half, as seep was higher in tank, unless I was flying cross-country and I could rapdly burn it off. Reseal is $7.5AMU's by the best. Doing stuff like installing strobes, putting on flap/aileron gap and hinge covers and wing base seal don't count on wings. Gear. Pucks are expensive in the nose and main gear, but again can be deferred/replaced a wheel a year. Nose gear truss will need bushings and dthese a re .2 AMU's max. If nose gear is NOT tight get it fixed. Cabin: seats/carpet/plastic/insulation are cosmetic and can be repaired/re-done BY THE OWNER...Same with windows. Brakes. The master cylinder kit was about /02 AMU's for several rubber gaskets. Same with the flap pump. Labor is/should NOT be excessive for brakes and if they are not good/get them fixed. Pads available from Spruce as are Battery (Recommend Concorde). Pushrods are pretty bullet proof. Wing-leveler rubber gaskets are NOT safety of flight and can be defeated until repaired. Step seal just holds step up. STILL way faster than a 172 with step down. Light bulbs minimal. Zeftronics voltage regulator is a MUST. .2 AMU's. The Generator is refurbishable, but we are now getting into firewall forward stuff. Oil cooler, hoses, fuel injection or carb....Ram Air seal, tires....If this stuff is 50 years old would you want to fly your family in it, or get it repaired/updated? Most of my costly stuff was self-inflicted. HID landing light, 8-pack panel, Updating all instruments, updating radios, Engine Monitor, PC system, installing PC auto-pilot, re-doing interior (seats/plastics/carpet) installing panel GPS were ALL labors of love that made the plane a pleasure to fly safely NOT a bare minimum/legal bird. Most Mooney's are expensive because they are old and didn't have an owner that loved to upgrade/make them theirs. Avoid these planes. A Mooney is a great economical cross-county machine, but I wouldn't want to own a $30k Mooney...

Mine just "showed up" after a recent update? I must have hit a button or something. I like it. Easy to fine tune a slight drift that is hard to see on the map.

2 hours up for weekend (UP HIGH) and 2 hours back down low today (because of low ceilings). Plane flew great!

shows your heading in a dashed line with pointer. If slightly left or right of "highway in the sky", you know.

I just like the new heading track feature. It is nice.

How about defining "funny things"? I really value my upgraded gauges giving me precise leaning information, Individual cylinder temps, precise RPM & Manifold pressure in a digital read-out that I can cross-reference with my G3 from my individual gauge pack...Oil Temp/Pressure, Digital fuel flow giving flow/used/remaining as well as volts/amps. I don't understand funny. I have values that become trends that I monitor for change.

Nailed it Hank. I respected my dad...and grew to love him. I am, I hope an improvement. Fear is a powerful motivator...Rarely did I receive a punishment that didn't "fit the crime". Hearing about it was a lot worse than "getting it". He was a master of psychological warfare. Shouldn't be tough on a 6-17 year old though.

Yes, You can get a vintage Mooney with a key that turns in the ignition for $30k. You say you have read and researched a lot. I find it hard to believe that you have read a lot of posts here and sincerely asked that question. Buy a Cherokee 180. You will feel like you are "Really moving" compared to the 172 for well under your $30k price point. If someone you know spent 5AMU's for a brake issue Barnum and Bailey wants to sell them some stuff too... Have a super night.

My dad was a former Marine. He would have never known as then I would have to explain why I received a ruler to the hand. End of the story would have been, "I bet you don't do _ _ _ _(fill in what I did) again."

Peter, that's six periods and your signature exclamation point. Remedial math for you

Rumour has it they are really men. You were so close to ending that one.

O.K. Cover her up. One can only view Mooney porn so much. Transformation. C-inderella lost her chin and is the belle of the ball. Home run David. Hope it flies as well as it looks...NOT as hot as it looks:)

Yowza! Me likey a lot.

Periods and Capital letters are for wimps The triple period rules...

Let's throw the shareholders in jail too! Yeah! And the assembly-line workers and their supervisors that assembled the parts! Yeah! And the suppliers of the parts all over the world! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Greedy Corporate SOB's....Get the pitfchforks! Start the bumper sticker printing presses! What a joke. Dead-On regarding the forest management practices and the result. At least they have a lot of water out in California to put the fires out...and grow crops. How many coal burning diesels equel the pollution created from those fires? The VW scandal is a gob of RedMan in the bottom of the Spitoon in comparison to a Colorado River running Orange and Red with liquid death....Selective anger. Gotta love it.

and stop calling my Shirley...

NOPE.

No sense of humor? I think this thread is funny as hell. Every time I see a Volt and a Prius I smile. I LOVE the new Audi A3 Electric Ad. You want some laughs? Check that out. Bike girl so wants to do the Red A3 guy. Prius soon to be double bumper sticker guy? Not so much. Free range chicken/solar panel on the roof guy...NOPE. German Gas-electric fun guy? Yup. I am hurt doc...and after I liked your Antarctic video...sigh...Back to my Jack Reacher Make Me novel. Reacher...I get him. You two, not so much.

Really? Man you better give me a smiley face...

Hey Clarence...before you speak about something you apparently have no knowledge about...perhaps you should educate yourself. They call it Grouse hunting...not killing. There is no hiding involved. The Grouse usually wins and he/she is far from unsuspecting.

Let it go...It will be O.K.

Allow me: A cold piece of idle steel being attacked by the elements with the statement- "Now this sucks". Yes, indeed. This does suck...

Little Timmy has grown up. He drives a German car. It runs on gas. Premium gas. He likes military history. He has a vintage German Mauser K98 rifle (scoped) that he uses it to knock down buck in the Fall. He also has a German pistol, but it holds 18 US made german designed rounds. He wears a watch, Chronograph that is Swiss made. His phone is China made by US design. He laughs at electric cars. ALL electric cars. He understands why the Prius looks as it does and why (options for transportation are varied.) Some for the right reasons, (choice) and some for the wrong reasons, (Big G picking winners and losers). Little Timmy supports the environment by buying ammunition, hunting licenses, boat registration, buying efficient modern gas engines, Checking his air in his tires, changing his plugs and oil, keeping his thermostat at a reasonable setting (just right) and using efficent light bulbs. He doesn't hug trees, but he loves them. Especially young forests, about 7-10 years after a clear cut when the stem density is high, and the Grouse and Woodcock have food and nesting grounds. He hopes he can leave a little lead in the woods. That lead also supports the future success of the habitat.