Oliver

People keep mentioning Uber, Lyft, crew cars or even the line boy's personal vehicle. These services tend to be available only in larger cities. Great, if that's where somebody wants to go. The VAST majority of airports in the US however doesn't have any of that. Some have crew cars but even then there is always the risk that somebody else snatches it up just before you get there. Not great if your entire plan for the weekend depends on it. My wife and I once spent a night in the plane, because the crew car was gone when we arrived at 10 pm and there was no taxi service or anything else available to get us into town, which was several miles away. Most small airports are between 1 and 5 miles out of town. I think a folding bike (if it fits) or a OneWheel (for us short body Mooney owners) are a good way to cover such distances. I certainly prefer an uncomfortable ride over a loooong walk. Somebody also asked about e-scooters: That's what we originally wanted to get, they are however all more than 40" long, whereas our baggage compartment is only about 36" wide. We probably could have somehow made it work but they would have then taken up a lot of space.

As per your profile you have a M20k. Our E has (like the C) a smaller baggage compartment. We can't even get our 2 Daher Uno in. Ideally I would want two electric folding bikes, it's however just not feasible. Particularly not on longer trips, when we also have to fit luggage.

I guess I need to make more friends. I somehow never know anybody in the places to which we're going and Uber / Lyft is more of a thing in bigger cities. At least in Michigan. I like the idea of the OneWheel in the frunk. I also drive a Tesla, a OneWheel might come in handy on longer road trip that require charge stops!

It's certainly easier to get hurt with them than with a bike. However, since I became interested in them a few months ago I joined a few OneWheel groups on Facebook and Reddit. All the injuries I've seen so far were due to people doing stupid sh*t. People ride them on single track trails and use them to commute to work, it therefore seems that they are reasonably safe. I am aware that they are not for everybody. For those who enjoy things like that, they are however a super compact means of transportation.

I thought I'd share this as I know that others are having the same problem. We like to fly to smaller airports of which most don't even have a courtesy car. Even if they do, we can't count on that it's still available when we get there and they also usually can't be kept overnight. To drive the last miles to where we want to go, we have two Dahon Uno folding bikes. While there are great, only one of them fits in the baggage compartment, the other has to go on the backseat. Loading the bike on the back seat is however a pain, the two bikes also take up most of the cargo space. Electric scooters turned out to be too long, we therefore settled on a OneWheel PintX. For now we just bought one, to see how we like it. The plan is however to get a second OneWheel. The PintX has a range of up to 18 miles and a top speed of just under 20 mph. Other than that they have a bit of a learning curve, they seem to be a great solution for us. They take up very little space, in fact ours even fits next to the folding bike into the baggage compartment. The only real downside I see is that driving on public roads is in many areas tolerated but technically not legal, just like an e-scooter or an electric skateboard. I attached a few pictures of the OneWheel in our baggage compartment, with and without the bike, as well as of my wife riding it.

Haha, that's about what I figured. We already had the lever removed, I then just snipped off the wire on both ends. With the lever out, it is easy to take it apart and to see how it will go back together. The new 0.055" diameter spring steel wire is supposed to arrive today. I will give the housing (if this is the correct term) and good rinse with LPS-1 and then put the new wire in. The old wire was REALLY stuck in there, decades of old oil pretty much turned into glue. It took all of my strength to get it to move, after the first few inches it however became suddenly very easy. Anyway, the plan is to push the new wire up from the pump end, connect it to the lever, reinstall the lever and to then connect the pump end. Should be easy peasy, right?

Thank you! We were planning to only replace the wire, so that's good. I figured that if I ask my doctor to amputate two or three of my fingers, I should also be able to re-attach the cable to the lever.

OK, thank you for your help! :-)

Thank you for your response. Do you by any chance remember if you had to remove some of the avionic trays and the mixture / prop cables?

We struggle to disconnect the cable for the hydraulic flap control from the small control lever in the cockpit. There is neither enough space to remove (and more importantly reinstall) the nut and the bolt, that holds the end of the wire nor is the bracket that holds the cable removable without taking much the panel apart. Is there an easy trick to this? Oliver

I assume you managed to get it fixed!? We want to replace ours but struggle to get access to where it attaches to the lever. How much stuff did you take apart to replace it?

"[...] its southerly course its ground speed increased to 240 knots. [...] Engineering analysis and testing by the airframe manufacturer predicted the onset of flutter to occur at 241 knots. [...]" OK, it's groundspeed and not airpeed, but if anything the N231BY crash is proof of the good engineering that went into Mooneys, as flutter occured pretty much exactly where predicted. So, yeah, stay within the published envelope and you'll be fine. No need to add extra safety margins, as the Mooney engineers already took care of this for you.

??? I was responding to MMsuper21's statements that 170 kts TAS would exceed the M20E's Vne of 165 kts, which is however defined in CAS and not TAS. At typical cruise altitudes, 165 kts CAS would however translates to over 180 kts TAS, hence at 170 kts TAS the wings will stay on.

Yes, but this is CAS. At a typical cruise altitude, this translates to +180 kts TAS.

We have a M20E with a few speed mods. We are getting around 150kts TAS @ 8,000 ft and 10 gal / hr. I understand that a J would be only slightly faster, given the same conditions and fuel flow. Where the E shines, though, is take off and climb performance, as the shorter body is lighter.