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I think at this point in our lives, that would be an either/or scenario. Those 930s are phenomenal machines.

We've just had our second son and I've mentioned to my wife that we'd have to sell out all together or get an A36 if we had a third. I really like my J!

Plenty of room in the 201 for me and my family. I'm 5'10", wife is 5'4". We've had a carseat/carrier in the back for our infant son at the time. Have also been able to fit his larger car seat in the baggage compartment. Now we have a second son and I see no reason we won't all be able to travel together on week long trips. As other's have said, I've got to move the seat full forward to be comfortable at the controls. Leaves a fair amount of room for any PAX sitting in back. Ingress and egress are the only oddities but no more or less than any other low wing aircraft.

I don't know that I could stomach the thought of driving from Atlanta to the island knowing there's a Mooney that could do it in a 1/4th of the time. We did think it would be a nice place to take our sailboat to though but again, the thought of driving and towing made me cringe.

We caught Ocracoke just prior to the season being over with. No crowd but still everything was open. We will certainly plan to go back, via Mooney only though.

Bingo. Some states require a causal connection between the reason the claim is being denied and the cause of the claim. Additionally, it's not only the policy that is considered. Your application is taken into account. The underwriters are assessing the risk based off of the information and warranty provided by the pilot on this document. If you do not have a current flight review or medical, the underwriter would not have accepted the risk.

On that note, your insurance policy would more that likely deny your claim as well.

Most companies will consider a negotiated settlement in that fashion, cash in lieu of repairs, in exchange for a policy holder's release. What this means is that this is all the policy will pay regardless of what other costs above and beyond you might incur. They have to weigh the likely salvage value of the aircraft as it sits to better understand what that settlement might look like.

Happy you made the switch too Savage!

Same here for my M20J. I just put a Parmetheus Plus in the nose and am happy with it. Especially since my one and only light source to the outside world decided to go out on a night flight back into home base. I'll take reliability over cost in this case.

Same here. Whew!

The time to bring it up is when you have the quote or estimate. Seems high to me but, hard to argue after the work is done and they let you know how long it was going to take.

My wife and I have a 2 year old and a second on the way. We've had our J for about 1.5 years now. For the most part, I'm flying myself but, when it's been the whole family, it's no problem, car seat included. The previous owner of our bird had two boys that were around 8-10 and they flew all over the place. I say this to say that, unless you need the altitude now, I would stick with a J since you're contemplating a larger aircraft later down the road anyways. Plus, I could only imagine the difficulty in keeping a cannula on an infant. Good luck in your search and keep us posted.

Awesome.

Canton, GA (KCNI) for me.

Does it run rougher on one mag vs. the other? Valve stem clearance checked?

Wow! Great job. She's beautiful.

There's speculation that AIG is looking to move out of this market sector.

Be careful with respect to the open pilot warranty and/or being a named pilot though. If you're receiving money for a service, you might not be considered an insured under the policy. If you're named, then make sure that there is a clause for a waiver of subrogation against the listed pilots. It's never a big deal until it is, then it's too late.

Nice, but it's 30mm. Sorry. I was a crew chief on the A-10 so I'm a stickler for her details. I was with the 74th FS, we were the first fixed wing unit into Bagram in '02. I swear, it was more like a PR tour than anything else. Every 30 minutes or so a few Army guys would come up and want to take a look, which we were happy to do. It's pretty awesome to witness first hand how the branches coalesce to get it done. One of the guys asked where my rifle was. I told him, if I need to pick up a rifle, we're already screwed. That said, I'd have no problem shooting back. I do miss that ugly bird.

Getting mine (IO360) done at Gann as we speak so I hope to be able to provide some incite in the next few weeks.

With respect to your budget, are you looking to finance or pay cash? I ask because I was in that same area when I bought my J last year. We had to finance. After further research, a slightly higher budget yielded about the same monthly P&I payment. The reason being, most finance companies would only give a 15 year note on amount less that ~$80ish thousand and 20 year notes on loans above that amount. So, we increased our budget a bit, got a better plane, had the same P&I (albeit over a longer term), at a lower rate. Now the thought is, pay it off well before then but more money is going to the principal.

Joey addressed somewhat the same issue on mine during the prebuy. Pretty non-invasive to clean up and treat. I don't see it as being a big deal.

Sadly, I've just received one from Gann Aviation for $22,500. Not that I'm sad about the price or with Gann, just wasn't really ready to be at this stage of ownership.

You've got to weight the aircraft on load cells at each jack point post paint. The aircraft will need to have everything removed down to it's basic empty weight to get the new weight. Balance is calculated from the figures from each load cell.