desmd1

I just had my 1986 252's tanks stripped and resealed in Ft Lauderdale by Wetwingologists East (Edison Gomez), and while at KFXE, I had Premier Aviation, a Mooney center, replace the decade old donuts and check the aircraft rigging. Wetwingologists was on time, meticulous, communicative. I left the plane there for one month in December, the job taking about two and a half weeks. They've been doing this work for seventeen years and have their own proprietary technique with a transferable seven year complete guarantee, and Premier vouches for their work. It's not inexpensive, particularly since I have Monroy long-range tanks as well as the factory mains. I don't know about you, but choosing Ft Lauderdale KFXE, with a nearby commercial airport KFLL, over Minnesota in the winter was an easy choice.

Has anyone found a satisfactory mount for an iPad in the Mooney (specifically, M20K 252)? Not on the yoke - it obstructs panel and crowds the handles, not the windshield - too much curvature and VFR obstruction. I currently have the iPad strapped to my left thigh - the right has my flight log and scratchpad. Is this the best we can do?

I had one Whelan PMA LED landing light installed in my 1986 Mooney 252 in 2014, and it operates perfectly except for the following anomaly. When it is illuminated and the aircraft is in flight, after ten or fifteen seconds, the ship’s analog TIT gauge briskly rises to maximum temperature redline. Turned off, the gauge returns to normal function. I also have a JPI TIT gauge which is unaffected, so that anomaly doesn’t alarm me. I pulled the gauge and had it bench tested and I had wiring reconfigured: no change. Recently, I had the other landing light, an incandescent bulb, replaced with an identical Whelan light, and now, it too provokes redlining of the ship’s TIT gauge, such that either of the two lights turned on provoke the abnormal TIT reading. The techs at Whelan say they've never encountered this problem before - have any of you?