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had the rain event deposit water in my tanks as well. now when i am on the ramp with a chance of rain i cover the caps, and the door jamb with blue painters tape. super easy to remove before leaving, even if it its been in the sun a week.

Aim small, miss small… It is comforting to see the centerline of the runway on your pfd align with exactly what you see outside the window.

Sad and unusual indeed. Vigilance must be a mantra…

I’m one of the oddballs. Bought an ovation 3 with around 13 hours TT, finished my ppl in that plane, as well as my IR. It took me about a year from purchase to completing my IR. Nothing wrong with starting in a Mooney. three caveats. 1. It will be expensive to build hours bc it is fast, and will take more time to learn, and more time with an instructor. 2. First year will be high cost, finding an insurer to write the policy. 3. You will be forever biased against all things not Mooney. It is not the common route for a lot of good reasons, but I am not sorry for the route I took, and when I finished my IR I was very comfortable and competent in my plane. understand the risks, and go in with proper expectations and it will be fine. ignore them and it may be an expensive lesson.

Hi all, I am redoing my interior, and I need to change the belts for color. Amsafe, like other aviation industries has requested an arm, a leg, and the first born for a replacement pair so I thought someone else’s may be able to use my old ones. the old ones are tan, with an intertia real and the ridged buck portion that stays upright like a car seatbelt. These will NOT come with the inflators, but are $4,300 for the pair and 12 week lead time. Im thinking $1,600 for the pair plush shipping. If interested let me know. I can’t take better pics bc the plane is getting the tanks resealed and I won’t have it back for two weeks. here is a pic of the part number. please pm me with an email and or phone number and we can talk. They won’t be available for a few months, when the new ones arrive.

This guy owns a company that does something with avionics, and he is not a licensed pilot. he told me he bought the plane around 2013 for his son to train in, and finished the training in 2015. Has been sitting, rotting ever since.

The confusing ones for me are the ones like N505WM which is on the ramp at KAPF. The owner does not live here, nor does he even visit! it sat, delinquent in rent for 7 or so years until the airport threatened to auction the plane. I tried to buy it and the owner told me he would take $400k for it since that is what he saw on controller. I passed. The owner then had a new engine and prop put on the plane, and immediately refused to pay the shop, sell the plane or pay the ramp rent. this was around 2019. It has sat on the ramp, in the sun, three flat tires and no cover, since then without being run once. The airport has had to threaten auction a few times to get him to pay the rent, and he finally settled with the shop and paid them, but refuses to sell. This makes no sense at all to me.

Ouch, I believe this is the third accident/event for this unlucky little bird. The one before seemed pretty bad.

There is a modified nose gear truss needed as well. Those doors won’t work with the stock truss. Wonder if he has that too

Flap gap seals and cowl vanes are on the shelf and available.

The -20’s also preferably should not come out a diamond. Some have had issues getting them to work in the Mooney. I did not know this and the ones I got last time were from a Diamond. I got lucky and they worked, but others have not been as successful.

Damned if you do….

I don’t know about a group, but myself with an acclaim and another friend with an ovation, both planes had waas, offered Johnny to pay 100% of the costs incurred to upgrade both. This would help Mooney establish a baseline cost, and then refund us only the portion of the costs over the published prices, slowly over time as the mod was sold. He said he would consider it, but that was the last I ever heard from him. That was about three years ago. For this to get any traction, a group of people would literally have to pool some cash deposits and kind of force the issue. And by group I believe it would have to be at least 50 to get their attention. Let’s assume it would be 35k. If 50 people put 35k together in escrow and showed Mooney a contract for $1,750,000, I’m sure Mooney would respond. Then those funds could be released in stages with a lottery style drawing for whose went first. Lots of ways to get it done, but every one of them has Mooney in the middle. If someone remembers Jonny’s handle maybe they can ping him with this, but I doubt he ever looks at the site anymore.

If you prop something up preventing the vent from pushing directly to the back it goes right into your footwells pretty nicely. I usually put a pillow there. Not the best idea if you have passengers but it works great for two.

I literally had nightmares about this scenario and I did not have any active leaks, nor history of them. I waffled for a few months to reseal or not I eventually gave in and they are getting sealed right now, paint to follow as soon as they are done