Skates97

Thank you, looking forward to reading it.

I tinted the rear windows and have leftover scraps in various sizes that get moved around on the front windows and windshield depending on where the sun is.

Here's the 1965 M20C electrical. The entire manual is available in the downloads section. 1965 M20C Electrical.pdf

I use https://skyvector.com/ for my planning on the computer. Put it your airports, toggle on and off FBO fuel prices, drag the route around, etc...

Just a suggestion, but if you are going to keep it on one cylinder I would pick #3. Your #1 is likely to always be the lowest and #3 (sometimes #4) the warmest so if I'm focused on one I want it to be the one that gets the hottest. I have a 65 M20D (converted making it a C) and typically see above 400° on the climb on #3 and #4. Once in cruise they all back off down into the 370-380° range. On warmer days I will pull back to 25" in the climb to keep #4 below 430°.

Lost my generator in my D VFR during the day. Turned off everything except the transponder and primary radio and continued to my home field. Let tower know I might lose the transponder and/or radio as the generator had died. He cleared me to land, as I was taxiing off the runway the radio gave up. Replaced it with an alternator.

Agree, Mt Rushmore from the air is not very impressive because of the distance you have to be from it, but Crazy Horse Memorial near there is very cool from the air. Monument Valley is great too, you can fly low through there.

This is a handy file to save, Don Maxwell's method which @Utah20Gflyer mentioned above. Fuel Tank Repair.pdf

My wife probably has over 1,000 hours in the Mooney now and her tolerance for bumpy air has increased tremendously. But, the first few years flights fell into two categories. If we were going up to just fly around or get lunch somewhere it needed to be silky smooth. If we were on a 2-4 hour flight to see parents in AZ or grandkids in UT then light chop for the entire flight was tolerable.

And the Gila tint is cheap enough I replace it about every 3 years when it starts to lose its clarity. I do the same thing. Keep them folded up in a seat back pocket, once in a cruise climb pull them out, unfold them on the glareshield, and in a few minutes they are warmed up, pliable, and easy to stick wherever needed.

Hank has a 1970, I'm sure it's an 8-Track in the panel.

Agree completely. Typical cruising out west is 9,500-10,500' if VFR. We did that for years without oxygen and my sats always stayed in the lower to mid 90's. A few years back we bought a Inogen G5 Oxygen Concentrator. It doesn't cost anything to use it so we do anytime we're above 8,500' and there is a difference in how I feel and a noticeable difference in how my wife feels at the end of a 3-4 hour flight. My sats even when we've been at 11,000-13,000' with the oxygen split coming off the Inogen are 98-99.

A good relationship with you AP/IA is invaluable. There are a number of things that I have texted mine to ask if he was okay with me taking care of. Sometimes it's "Yes, go ahead," and others it is "Sure, but let me see it when you're done and get a logbook entry for you."

**Don't feed the troll, don't feed the troll** Oh well... It's the approach at my home airport that I have flown enough that it is committed to memory. Isn't that how everyone's mind works? Did you miss the part where I said I still use my EFB on every approach? Good grief.

Not sure why you're pulling me into this troll fest... I had to look back through the thread to see if I had commented. I sense some sarcasm in your post? Personally, I have the approach plate up on the tablet on my yoke (and could pull it up on the second one on the RH panel if needed) every time I fly an approach, regardless of the number of times I have flown it. Even at my home airport where I've flown the RNAV countless times I still review the fixes and altitudes on the plate verbally out loud prior to reaching the IAF. I long ago memorized the fixes and crossing altitudes on that approach but what harm is there in reviewing it just prior to flying it? If anything it is getting me mentally "in the game" so to speak.