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I was making a joke because when did the interior on my plane the two belts for the front, only the belt and bag were 5k. this doesn’t include the rest of the system…

That should be good for about a dozen seat belts!

So have I, which is baffling. common sense isn’t always common…

The bottom plug is easier to scope than the top plug, but removing intercooler on top is only a few screws and two hose clamps. Every single oil change I remove all plugs, clean, gap, apply anti seize, and reinstall. If it wasn’t so difficult to clean all the oil spilled from removal, I could do it faster. This takes me about three hours.

The factory website does still list an acclaim for sale! Alas, it’s merely another piece of the business neglected.

If you go all the way to big bend and don’t see Chisos basin at sunrise you should go back. we went mountain biking there 30 years ago, during a school break. We rode our tails off, changed a lot of flats. found an unofficial border crossing along the rio. It was kind of innocent back then, I mean migrants weren’t using it to migrate, just a convenience for tourists. apparently there were plans to build this major border city in the Mexico side but after a bunch of major infrastructure was put in they cancelled the plans. (at the time it may actually be built by now) so you had these giant power lines and highway but no electricity and hardly even any cars. it was very rural on their side of the border and national park on our side. anyway, you could eat tortillas and buy blankets , trinkets , awful liquor. we shot pool in a cantina with dirt floors. funniest part was you went across in a boat full of bullet holes, and the ride across was $1 and for another $20 on the other side you could ride a burrow into town. boat ride back was $20. This was 30 years ago and we were students!!! good times…

You will never regret it if you do it, a turbo provides options which is always better. but… for those altitudes it is not necessary.

Just like housing, regulations have driven these machines financially out of reach for most people. RIP

I have changed two of these in the past, both times they came with gaskets, and the ones i removed had them as well, no sealant or adhesive. I reinstalled the same way and never had any issues

Richards Feynman forecast this in the 50’s or 60’s. he said miniaturization was the future. He was so certain he offered cash reward for the first person to write the alphabet on the head of a pin. we are indeed standing on the shoulders of giants, and it is amazing that the mini is as compact. But the fact that you can satellite text with our existing iPhones says that we are not far away from this technology shrinking in the very near future. point being, it was less a complaint than a fact that the antenna is not small inside a Mooney cockpit. @exM20K I have had the same experience over the last 10 years. Rock solid. That’s why this is so jarring.

I fly almost twice a week, it isn’t a function of frequency. It has also happened multiple times while flying. I have Adsb weather as a backup, but that isn’t available everywhere. I’d really like a starlink, but don’t want that contraption on my dash. I’ll wait until they make a real mini. Steep discounts are thpically, not always but usually, a predictor of one or two things, slipping demand, or a new model is immanent.

In the last year I have had some chronic issues with XM. It has gone over an hour with no updates, no music and no weather. Sky was clear and sunny, and I flew over 250 miles before it came back. It also doesn’t receive its initial data until about 20 minutes into my flight about 75% of the time. It does this in both of my planes so I do not believe it’s the install or equipment. and it has happened to me all over the country. How does starlink work with clouds and weather obstruction? Is it like direct tv was, where you lose signal in storms?

Unfortunately , you are probably right. I think I just want to avoid the “judgement” of the Overhauler. In my example they decided all they needed to do was the brushes. Worst part was the bearings were bad, not just old and the commutator had a groove over 1/8” deep from using the wrong brushes and bad bearings. one would hope new had a more rigid inspection criteria. crossing my fingers…

It’s a little smoother, but prop went on at the same time. Temps are not notably different. regular mags are fixed as well so…. uses ships battery but requires a direct line to the battery. starting is more like a car now. Hot warm cold. All easy. I am not ready to go full electric just for modality variety, but if it’s as reliable as it should be I would consider two at some point. if they could control the timing like on a modern car there would be much less need for two electric, the ignition would be much more efficient. I don’t regret it yet. That being said I only have about 25 hours since the journey began, and she has been down for a few months. The mechanic is flying it a bit too. it’s a little more complicated than changing a mag, but I kept the half of the ignition harness and got a rebuilt mag to keep as a spare.

For what it’s worth, I’m extremely dubious of “overhaul” in the aircraft genre. I recently sent in an air conditioning condenser fan in for “overhaul”. six weeks and 2400 later I got my motor back with nothing but the brushes changed. so $8 worth of parts. When it failed 10 hours later I took it apart and that how I found out. I would have thought “overhaul” for a 40 year old motor for 2400 would include commutator, winding, brushes and bearings. This is what was done on my table saw motor which cost 1700. From now on, anything I buy overhauled or get overhauled will either be because new isn’t an option or be a fraction of what it is new.

It was 8 years ago, I’m pretty sure it was aircraft spruce, but it could have been the shops vendor. I remember it because my family was with me for the event, it was my first Mooney, and the shop tried to talk me into just rebuilding the failed mag. Logs said, the mags and harness were original. When I insisted we change it all with new, is when the deal came to light. The shop got onboard when we found out the price.

I replaced one mag with a surefly and have been very happy. I also like knowing i have two different systems. I have had a mag failure in flight as well, but it did not cause any aberrant temperatures. I did a mag check and the engine shut down for a brief, not so joyous, moment. I replaced both mags, the harness and plugs for all new. At the time there was a special if you bought the ignition system complete that was only about 1k more than just rebuilt mags.

I didn’t realize you had zoomed in so much. Ok, I wouldn’t be so freaked out by that but, those curled pieces are definitely unusual. I’ve never seen anything like that before, nothing larger than a grain of sand.

I never saw anything like that before and it would freak me out too. those things could easily clog screens or filters. After seeing how the tanks are done, it’s hard to imagine pieces that large being left in the tanks, it it doesn’t look like sealant either. Did you have the tanks sealed? Maybe a previous owner had bad patchwork done? I’d want to flush the tanks at a minimum. I have gotten tiny particles every time I have ever stumped any of my tanks, and that is on all the 10 mooney’s I have owned, and about a dozen or more others I have flown. The first time I got nothing was after I had my tanks resealed.

Picking up next week. Will post some as soon as I see it for myself!

Cant wait to get it to paint! I didn’t see the interior installed but I went and picked it up in San Antonio. I was very happy. can’t speak highly enough of hector. anyone who uses anyone else is doing a disservice to themselves… ps it will be nicer than the ultra!!

After owning two NXI equipped Mooney’s. I can tell you that this is the only feature I really missed. the keyboard is useless with the flight stream and an impediment in the cockpit. the only other items I enjoyed but don’t really miss is the visual approach which is easy to mimic with approach fixes and the identifier in the frequencies. there are many other differences but most of them are nuanced, and with the flight stream 210, I would be hard pressed to pay for an upgrade to the nxi. It would probably have to be imminent ending of support, which isn’t likely to occur in my flying days.

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Not sure you need an attorney for this, you would probably be better served by contacting an aviation tax consultant.

One other reality. A different set of eyes will almost always find more… proper expectations will help you assimilate this genre. Take pleasure in knowing your bird is in tip top shape. The consequences are more than inconvenient.