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Nope, the plane was down for 3 1/2 weeks for a GFC500 and then a handful of weekend trips have kept me from the hours needed. Sitting at about 23 hours right now, getting in 1-2 flights a week. Flew my cross country a couple Saturday's ago so all that is left is more studying for the oral and knocking out the rest of the hours. Heading to Oshkosh tomorrow so that will add another week to the delay.

I was able to find a used one, it was expensive, but less than what the shop wanted to overhaul/rebuild it.

You can also check and see if there is a duct that comes off the top of the right inlet scoop to the back of the avionics stack. My plane had one to cool the avionics in days gone past and I would pick up CO readings from it depending on the phase of flight. With the newer avionics it is no longer needed so I capped it off and haven't seen the readings since then.

Interesting that it is just a toggle and not a split switch. From day one I never planned to get any of my investment back in dollars, but in enjoyment it has paid me back ten-fold.

As @kpaul said definitely get the trim. I don't think you need the YD in a short body but letting it level off and trim itself instead of having it tell you to adjust trim is worth it. I also think the TOGO is worth it even if you are just taking off VFR, take off, hit the button, and you have a nice visual reference.

Let's try this again. Here is Piper Painter's folding rear seat mod instructions. Rear Folding Seat Mod.pdf

I have the pdf file of Piper Painter's rear folding seat mod but when I try to attach it here I get an error. @mooniac58, did something get messed up in the migration? I can't seem to upload anything, jpg, pdf, etc... to a post. The error is: Sorry, an unknown server error occurred when uploading this file. (Error code: /home/mooneysp/public_html/uploads/monthly_2021_07 could not be created.)

Looks like my memory wasn't very good, mine aren't any different than yours.

IFR Training Flight #18 from June 16th. I was fortunate to combine it with picking up Kathy to give her a ride back from Oxnard and she snapped a great picture of the sunset that I missed seeing with the foggles on. https://intothesky.com/2021/07/18/ifr-training-i-brought-along-a-photographer/ Flight #20 was my IFR cross country and will be posted soon. Flight #19 will be written up for The Mooney Flyer and published August 1st, it was my first experience in actual IMC.

My quote for 3 axis (pitch/roll/trim) was $18,864 and that was also already with G5's in the panel. They originally quoted 2-3 weeks. In the end they came in a little under the quote on the price and took 3 1/2 weeks to complete.

That was me, based on his flying I thought he would have been full fuel to make the flight back to KFUL without a fuel stop. Further research showed there is no fuel at Dinsmore so he probably had between 15-25+ on board. There is a fuel stop about 30 minutes away which was probably going to be his next stop if I was guessing. If he had 15 gallons all in one tank that's an easy hop landing with 10 still on board. He was still likely too heavy for the short strip in a small valley with DA coming into play.

I have often heard it said that if you fly long enough you will know someone who dies in an airplane accident. I have known of people, even witnessed one, but Henry was the first I knew, and it is a tough one. I have a really good friend who used to fly a 210, he gave it up years ago. I asked him once why and he said he knew too many pilots that died in accidents. For myself, I will be flying until age or medical reasons cause me to give it up. I fly because I love to fly. I have wanted to fly as long as I have a memory of anything. There are risks involved, and I do my best to mitigate those risks through maintenance, planning, training, etc... Like I said, this one is difficult, but I will be at the airport tomorrow morning, drive past his hangar after passing through the gate, maybe his car will still be there, and go for a flight. I just changed the oil in preparation to fly to Oshkosh so I want to take a short post-maintenance flight on my own before my CFII shows up for my IFR lesson tomorrow.

I did more digging, there is no fuel there so they would not have had much left after a 4 hour flight, unless he had full tanks (64 gal) when he left KFUL and then depending on how he ran it he might have had 20-30 left. There was a stop at Perris to pick up a passenger on the way, the Flight aware track shows it as a continuous flight but if you look at the track log you will see he spent about 12 minutes on the ground at Perris. There were four on board, they have identified them. https://krcrtv.com/north-coast-news/eureka-local-news/multiple-fatalities-occur-in-plane-crash-at-dinsmore-airport

I replaced my yokes with modern ones so my install won't help. But, I have the old yokes off my plane and I thought there was more room for running a wire up. I can take a look tomorrow and send pics if they are different than what you have. If you are interested I'm sure we can figure something out, they are just collecting dust in my hangar.

Yes, if you couldn't smile around Henry you probably didn't smile much at all, and it didn't matter where you were flying for lunch he would say "They have the best xxxxx you have ever had." Fill in the blank with just about anything off the menu. Henry and a friend at the last Christmas hangar party. A group of us at lunch at KSEE the day after Thanksgiving last year. In this case I think it was the best club sandwich you ever had by looking at his plate.

I will.

This one is really hard. I should be grieving, he was a friend that I spent a lot of time with, but I am more upset. There is a pretty close group of pilots there in the southeast hangars at KFUL and Henry was a part of that group. While he was a really nice guy and a friend, I would not fly with him nor want anyone to fly with him. On a number of occasions I saw him load up enough people and bags to be over gross. Back in April we were visiting with a friend two hangars down from Henry and watched him and three other good size guys along with bags and full fuel climb in his Mooney for a flight to Williams, AZ. My friend and I were both worried he wasn't going to make it off the ground. Both Henry and one of the passengers after that flight talked about how it took them forever to climb out of Williams at only about 50' a minute. My friend asked Henry if he had done a WB and he said no, at which point my friend in a not so gentle manner (when you've been friends for years sometimes it is the direct approach) told Henry he can't just ignore the laws of physics. They are still trying to figure out how many people were on the plane today. It is believed that there were four. There's another guy there at the airport that was supposed to go with Henry today but there weren't enough seats in the plane, all the seats were full. It's a long flight back to KFUL, and if he had four in the plane plus full fuel he was likely over gross. Add in a warm afternoon, 2,500' runway, trees not far from the end....

It is a Mooney. N4474H

He's a hangar neighbor, I'm told there were four in the plane. Another hangar neighbor has been sending my wife and I updates and articles/links.

This is true, unless you are just doing pattern work and not very fast, and possibly distracted. About 4 years ago after I had a JPI830 installed I was just taking some trips around the pattern to check it out. I think on the second takeoff the RPM on the JPI went crazy, first around 3,000 and then up to 4-5,000+. The engine didn't change in sound and the mechanical tach over on the right side was reading correctly, but the JPI in front of my face was showing the RPM in nice big RED numbers. It was distracting enough I was actually saying out loud "Just fly the plane" over and over as I went around the pattern. On downwind abeam my touchdown point where I normally put the gear out I was pulling power when I heard a tone I don't normally hear. With the JPI still flashing in my face I thought "What now?" and then right after that realized it was the gear warning horn you get when you pull power back too far without the gear down. I put my gear out, had an uneventful landing, and the shop found there was a bad connection in one of the wires to the JPI. I like to think my multiple gear checks, including one on short final will keep me out of trouble, and they have so far, but distractions are insidious.

**Sold** If you want an original I have one for a 1966 C that you can have for the price of shipping. Send me a PM if interested.

Me too, I start looking at them 7-10 days out and see which way they are trending.

Fixed, thank you!

@mooniac58 Ad just popped up for me today as well. I thought I was past due, so checked my paypal history. Looks like I am due for another donation July 19th so the ads shouldn't be there yet. I went ahead and made a donation early.

I think it is maybe every Father's Day Weekend? It was Father's Day Weekend in 2017 when we were there.