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Will be at the hangar next Wednesday and can get a couple pictures.

Mine would never stay open and would hit me in the back all the time. My IA didn't have a problem with me putting a small gas strut on it. It holds the door open great, when taxiing or doing runup the prop wash closes it to about 2 inches and then opens back up smoothly at idle. After my baggage door arm got bent terribly by a mechanic I put a small gas strut on that as well. It's nice because as it closes it goes over center and applies pressure to keeping the door shut. Not sure if it would make a difference if the baggage door wasn't latched and not will to try that experiment... They're similar to this but I would have to look at the length and weight rating to see what I have on there, I ordered a few different ones before settling on which worked best.

Haven't eaten any of the "food" from A&W but the rootbeer floats got us through a few hot afternoons! There was a food truck with Mexican Food by Exhibit Hangar B that was halfway decent in 2021 and 2023.

Put static cling tint on the rear windows, it makes a huge difference. Easy to do yourself and cheap. Keep a few scraps to place on the front windows in cruise or even up on the windshield to cut down on the sun. When not using them just fold them up and put them in the seat pocket. https://intothesky.com/2020/06/02/window-tinting/ You can also make your own window shades out of this stuff. Cut to size they stay in the windows just fine, if it's a hot summer day I'll leave them in the back left window the whole flight as it doesn't affect visibility and in the back right window in cruise. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Reflectix-R-21-50-sq-ft-Unfaced-Reflective-Roll-Insulation-24-in-W-x-25-ft-L/3011904 I also made a homebuilt a/c similar to the B-Cool that @Fritz1 mentioned. We use it in the summer if we're going to AZ. https://intothesky.com/2017/08/20/homemade-a-c/

I have the Inogen G5 and got it through Main Clinic like @Ragsf15e. All they required was a copy of my pilot's license. I've been at 13,000 with my wife and I both on it set at the max of 6 and we were both in the mid 90's. I have a 12v outlet in the baggage compartment we plug it into. I've been at 11,000' on it by myself and my sats stayed at 98-99. We use it anytime we're above about 8,000' (which is almost every flight out of SoCal) just because we both feel better after the flight and it doesn't cost us anything to use it.

I'm with the crowd on this one, not a fan of either one. The top one doesn't do much for me and the bottom has too much going on in addition to the dark fuselage. You could try reaching out to Robert at Flight Lines design. https://www.flightlinesdesign.com/ I worked with him when coming up with the paint scheme for my plane. I gave him ideas and pictures and then he ran with it giving me different schemes and modifying as I told him which parts I liked and which I didn't like. One thing I am very happy with was putting a dark color on the leading edge. I did it specifically to be able to see any ice building and it has been great. The few times I have picked up ice it stood out easily where on the white I'm not sure it would.

I had about 500 hours in the Mooney at the time plus about 50 in Cherokee's from my primary training but zero Cessna time. They wanted (rightfully so) a 1 hour checkout with a CFI but I just paid for the CFI to come with us for the 2 hour flight. It was great because he knew all the local landmarks for traffic callouts and played tour guide for us as well. All I did was fly the plane and look out the window.

Mine is any state I have landed any plane in. The only one that wasn't a Mooney was Hawaii where we rented a 172 for some flightseeing.

That's what I did with the carpet in front of the back seat. Rear seat passengers kept pushing it forward, checked underneath, nothing there, drill and sheet metal screws and it hasn't moved since.

Checked the log entry, Stratoflex 193-2 was used, cut to length and ends installed. Spruce says it is not rated for fuel, McFarlane says "designed to withstand most aircraft fuel, oil, coolants, solvents," https://www.mcfarlaneaviation.com/products/193-2/?srsltid=AfmBOoro-aCvjgIVazwt5eDcDAtYm7lg2s_WWXCVvHJ4fh9kwkkTfnHf https://www.desserhoses.com/dtr_hose_types_sizes.html#:~:text=Desser Hoses - Hose Types and,optioned with orange type firesleeve. There's this old post from Clarence saying the IPC shows 193-2. The IPC calls for AN6270-2 which according to Dresser is is MIL-H-5593 and is also 193. Sure miss having Clarence around.

Be careful with that fitting on the carburetor, it has a reducer inside it and is expensive. When I had my engine replaced a year ago it was broken. I replaced that hose I think during annual in 2024, I can check my logbooks to see what was used this weekend.

The other thing to remember is that the faster you are when you lower the gear the faster the bar will want to swing up from the drag on the gear. Right at 120mph if you aren't holding on to it tight, it can slip out of your hand and slam into the panel.

Reach out to @donkaye, MCFI, he's in your neck of the woods and the best Mooney instructor out there. He has a dvd on Mooney landings that although it's been around awhile it is very well done and helps learning the site picture. (And no matter how old the dvd is the site picture landing hasn't changed. ) You can get his video off his site. https://donkaye.com/

I'll second the PMA products. I put the PMA 450B in my plane. If my son is flying he's listening to whatever he wants in the back seat and is isolated from the radio calls. My wife and I often listen to the same thing but if we want to we can listen to different things or she can listen to what she wants and I don't have anything playing if I'm on an IFR flight and don't want to miss a radio call. Another bonus to the stereo is that I can have my #1 radio on Tx/Rx and #2 on Rx to pick up the weather. If they are both receiving at the same time #1 is in my left ear and #2 in my right ear. It takes a little practice but you learn to ignore a call for someone else in your left ear and can listen to the entire weather recording instead of having it constantly cut in and out for transmissions where you have to listen to it 5 times to hear the whole thing.

Yes, they like that. The first time I asked for a heading (which they gave to me) not knowing or remembering that function from my IFR training. I wrote about it in an article and Don Kaye was kind enough to email me and fill me in on what I was missing. I spent some time with the simulator on the computer and figured it out. The next time they assigned me an outbound radial I pushed all the right buttons and tracked it out.