AlexLev

Is it bad if your oil temp is that high without crossing redline if your CHTs are okay? It seems like it would be good to have it hot to burn off any condensation inside the engine and keep it corrosion free.

On the flipside, my M20G sat for a year or so during previous ownership and started producing some steel in filter. Not sure what's causing it, but I'm betting it's a cam lobe. Just removed the engine for overhaul. I put 300 hours on it since buying it, currently at 1200 SMOH. Earlier than I wanted it to since I only purchased the plane about 14 months ago. A bit painful, but hoping the overhaul will do well. I'm nervous about the plane post-overhaul and I am sure I will be for a few hundred hours until I can trust the work.

Some updates -- engine removed. Looking forward to finding out what caused the bit of metal in the filter.

Dropped the plane off for overhaul today and had my first go at hitchhiking a ride to Memphis. Success. Not murdered. People are good. Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

Decided to try to make it out there before the cold fronts plummeted temps aloft. I made it to Cincy so far with a new headwind record...may see about completing the leg after the storms pass through. If I do end up in Kennett tomorrow, I'll try to see if I can find a ride back at the airport, if anyone happens to be in the area tomorrow, feel free to shoot me a PM.

Exactly @neilpilot - going to try to get over there Wednesday and/or Thursday (may end up taking me two days) and likely looking for a ride into some part of civilization on Thursday from Kennett, MO.

Thanks for the replies! I'll call them and see if Jewell has any options for bringing me. Tom - with your offer, I don't want to say "Thursday" and then end up delaying due to weather or other factors and cause problems for you especially if you are taking time out especially for it. Have to play it by ear getting out of the Buffalo area.

What are you asking for it? Does it come with paperwork? I'm just asking for a friend who wants to put ADSB on his plane in the cheapest way possible. I'm thinking a good functional 330 that is then sent to garmin for the ES upgrade would do the trick?

Facing some tough first time ownership challenges and going to pull the trigger with flying my plane from Buffalo to Jewell Aviation in Kennett, MO for an R&R and maybe overhaul as soon as this coming Wednesday. Any MSers live near the area and able to help me out with a ride/flight to Memphis? Happy to help out with fuel and gratitude. Otherwise for any who have made the journey to Jewell from far away places...how did you get to Memphis to catch a flight home? There are no buses or even car rentals around. Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

Any left? How much?

I believe about 23.6hours total.

Just calculated that my total fuel cost from Buffalo, NY to the Bahamas and back was $1138 -- gotta love a Mooney! That includes at least 40 gallons purchased at $6-7+ fuel prices in the Bahamas, although I tried to keep my stops en route South to places with $4 fuel and below.

It's unfortunately not functional yet, they plan to open sometime in January. I had to clear at FXE before doing the flight back up to Boca Raton. I just got back from the Bahamas today. If you're going to travel down toward the Exuma Island Chains, here's some more recommendations / my experience: Staniel Cay: MYES - walking distance to the Staniel Key Yacht Club. Nice place for lunch - probably the most crowded island in the Exumas. The Yacht Club is ritzy and there are nursing sharks near the boat dock. Here, you can find a boater to take you to see the swimming pigs and into the Thunderbolt Cave. Expect to pay about $100 or so for the boat ride over and a tour, but if you befriend some folks with a boat and trade plane rides you may be able to get in for free ;). MYEB is Black Point and only 5 miles from Staniel Cay -- much more of an authentic island life experience without many amenities. Lots of beaches to yourself. If you're into food tourism, land at MYEB and walk the half mile into town. Right behind Lorraine's Cafe is a house where a lady bakes the most amazing bread you will ever taste. She charges about $6/loaf...the coconut cinnamon raisin was incredible, but I'm sure any of the flavors will be mind blowing. You can just knock on her door right before Lorraine's Cafe or ask the folks in the cafe (or really anyone on the island) where you can buy the bread and they will show you. My only regret was not buying more. My wife and I spent most of our 3 days in Black Point. There was practically no one here around the Christmas time and I was the only aircraft parked in the airport. We enjoyed the town and it was fun to take day trips to Staniel Cay, Cat Island etc.. MYEN -- Norman's Cay - didn't make it over here, but apparently right next to the airport is a sunken DC3 that used to be a drug running aircraft. You can snorkel and see the wreck or even fly by and see it. Cat Island is a fun day trip. MYCB is New Bight airport in Cat Island. Large runway and it's about 1 mile from Fernandez Beach Village. You can catch a taxi at the airport or it's about a 20 minute walk. Fernandez Beach here incredible for swimming. The most amazing water (not so much for snorkeling, for swimming and beaching and there are lawnchairs, etc. available for free)...once you're done swimming, hop back to the plane and land at Hawk's Nest airport on Cat Island..but even before you do that, inquire with the locals at the airport about Flour Cake and go buy some. It's a baked good that's famous throughout Bahamas as originating in Cat Island. There's a lady that bakes some and sells some. Unfortunately, when we came...the next batch wouldn't be done until 2pm and we had to go before then, but hopefully you will get to try it. Okay -- back to Hawk's Nest resort. Supposedly, there is a $15 landing fee, but we were never charged. We landed, parked and had lunch there...and despite the beautiful resort having practically no guests on Christmas, the lunch facility stayed open and we had a really nice lunch with the fresh fish wrap. It was so good!!! The best lunch we've eaten while we were traveling around. Worthwhile stop at the resort for lunch and the facilities looked pretty good, so you may even want to look into lodging here at some point. As far as customs, I cleared at Exuma International and Odyssey took good care, but their prices are steep for fuel. I ended up hitting up Governors Harbor (MYEM) in Eleuthra for the departure (you are supposed to depart the Bahamas from an AOE and pay a $29/per person departure fee) and got a nice deal on fuel at about $6.50/gallon on 100LL including the VAT fees. Earco Elite took good care of us. Fuel is cheaper here if you pay with cash, otherwise be prepared to pay an additional 5% credit card fee. It's like this pretty much everyone in the Bahamas where if you're not paying with cash, you will pay 5% more with a card. Hope this info is helpful and gives you some ideas! Cheers and happy travels! ...now to fly the Mooney back up north to our home base in Buffalo...Brrr...

I am there now. First time flying there all the way down from Buffalo. Entering was fairly easy, haven't experienced any gotchas yet. Pretty simple process, stayed in Exuma Islands on Black Point and planning to fly over to Staniel Cay tomorrow. Hard to get around Exumas without a boat and a lot of the attractions require a boat, so renting one or befriending someone and trading plane rides for boat rides is useful :). I flew from Boca Raton to Great Exuma Island to clear customs. $50 per plane and then $29 per person when you depart it must be from an AOE. Not all of the islands have fuel, so plan accordingly. Do you have some specific questions or looking for general advice on what to do when you're here and where in the Bahamas to fly into?

1) I have found putting the gear down when I'm just above the glide slope intercept works well for staying on the GS. The trick for me is to slow down to gear speed before the FAF and I generally need to be in level flight to do it unless I'm going to chop power significantly. Sometimes I find myself a little behind and in the white arc to put 10 degrees of flaps down before I slow down to 120mph and then once I hit the FAF, get the gear down and I may already have 10 degrees of flaps. Don't be afraid to use your flaps to get that little extra 10mph slow down if necessary. Power settings are largely dependent on headwind component, temperature and other factors so I just try to fly whatever power settings give me the speeds required and a 500-700fpm stabilized descent (of course, if large headwind then maybe only 300fpm, etc). Sometimes it's 18", sometimes it's 16", sometimes 15". 2) I try to slow down to about 75 knots around the MDA -- if you're a little faster that should be fine too, just pitch up for the slower airspeed after adding power without being excessive to let yourself get the J bar up. Good J bar technique is helpful too with it being one solid motion, but sometimes it can be a struggle. Not sure if this was helpful at all, but good luck on your instrument rating. It was definitely the most useful thing I did all year flying-wise.

Not true around the Great Lakes where the clouds that sprawl up from the Lakes are around freezing temp and become ice machines, despite even if it's 15F on the ground (since the Lakes are warmer).

That's interesting. Why is that the case?

Thanks guys!

Thanks, David. We did actually swap some brake lines and hoses. When you say actuate flaps, do you just mean to continually pump them down and bring them up and just try to resolve the problem like that if the fluid levels are good?

Just got my plane out of its first annual.. On my preflight and flight back, I noticed that the hydraulic flaps are not operating like they used to. It takes me about 3 pumps to "prime them" before they start working as normal, otherwise there is no pressure when I immediately put the lever on down and begin pumping. They did bleed my brakes as part of the annual, I wonder if it's a simple issue as the fluid being low or maybe the cold temps causing some issues? It was about 15F when I flew out. Any idea what it could it be or what I could check?

I have an old AeroLogic EGT-100-4 display in my Mooney. It gives digital EGT readouts. Not exportable, but better than nothing. The thermocouples for this unit though no longer seem to be produced. I have a couple that are not working and have tried everywhere to find the 713-2DWK probe. I was able to find some last year but only bought one and now the same vendor only has one left that he is saving for himself. I need 1 or 2 more. I guess I can buy a 712 probe, but I think that voids the STC for the unit since that probe is not TSO'd. Would anyone have any leads on where to find this thermocouple for a reasonable price? I've scoured eBay, but can't seem to find one anywhere. My maintenance shop is telling me to just install a JPI, but a few hundred bucks for a probe vs $4,000 for an installation is a big difference and I'd rather put those $ toward an overhaul.

Hmm, I seem to have a similar issue. My #1 EGT is high on take off and at low altitude, close to same #'s as OP, but evens out when at a higher altitude 6-8k. I have a carbureted engine, so it can't be a clogged injection line. I just rotated/cleaned the spark plugs, but I've done it before and I don't remember it fixing anything. I'll check when I get the plane back online though. If it's not fixed - any ideas?

Seems like a nice aircraft, good luck with the sale!

Looks like @autopatch has that N # on this board. Glad you're okay. What happened if you don't mind sharing?

I guess we are both young 20 something year old Mooney owners . It shows, huh? Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk