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You can likely sell the 345 for close what they cost new. Last time I checked you can’t get a new one for over six months. I paid 7k for a remote version used a few months ago.

I’ve had the worst luck with lending and borrowing. If I lend I expect it to be returned as lent. I’ve had people keep the items, return broken or damaged. I have never, and would never do that. I have in fact many times, gone out and purchased the item new because I was too ashamed to return it in lesser condition. For this reason, I prefer not to borrow at all, unless I don’t have a choice or it’s cheap enough for a one use thing that I’m not concerned, or it’s not easily broken or damaged. I still lend, but mostly because I don’t know how to say know without feeling like a jerk. I do have an agreement with a few fellow acclaim owners, where we all have extra parts and if one of us is in a bind we send the part and then the recipient replaces with a spare as soon as they can. It’s worked out pretty well. I sent a buddy a turbo, and he sent another one a cylinder. I have a spare turbo, wiring harness, plugs, prop governor… between the four of us we have quite a few goodies I agree, most Mooney space guys in my experience are good people.

especially at night

Anyone who is planning to fly in the flight levels should do the hypoxia training to see how their body reacts. It will be very edifying, just seeing the diversity of the effect it has on people.

Probably tried to put in the the for sale section and realized you have to pay…

I would suspect after all the reports I have read, that if there was an accident that occurred where a mask was not being used over 18k the FAA would find the pilot at fault and a contributing factor to the event. And, probably, rightfully so, almost all the accidents I read about can be traced back to the chain of bad decisions. How does that saying go, “There are a lot of old pilots, and a lot of bold pilots, but not a lot of old and bold pilots”. Bold of course being a euphemism for many things…Or something like that… I think for the most part the self policing is effective, even if its Darwinian.

I don’t feel foolish for the random act of the grommet being yanked out. That was the one link in the chain that wasn’t a factor of my negligence. I had a pulse oximeter I didn’t utilize enough, I didn’t set up a backup mask or cannula, which I did have with me, I didn’t have any checklist to confirm my function. I was alone. Any one of these other items may have been ok, but all of them was just a lack of preparedness and awareness, that happened to coincide with an equipment failure. I didn’t say I felt foolish to be self effacing or elicit sympathy. The story reads like so many of the accidents we read about, only it ended well. It is easy for confidence and arrogance to be conflated. I am fortunate and I will not forget the lesson.

The precise flight conserver has altitude settings. Presumably this increases that flow rate right? I have never used the mountain air or any other ones, but they appear to have fixed rate disbursement.

That seems incongruent, because if the oxygen is flowing when you are not inhaling it is obviously wasted, but when inhaling distribution is the same as constant flow. I took a trip a few years ago from Florida to Oregon and back. I flew with a friend and very little of that trip was below 19k. We used conservers the entire time and never had any issues with saturation. What does oxygen wasting mean? Are you saying conservers deliver less o2 above 15k? I would like to read the source of this, can you share?

16-19 really is the sweet spot for the acclaim. You get a little more speed up higher, but seldom enough to make it worth the trade off.

Years ago I was flying home and while planning my flight realized there was a 70knt tailwind at 25k, directly on my tail. Pretty hard to pass up in a plane capable.. I was alone, had the nice blue silicone mask with a microphone, so I filed for 25k and off I went. I was cruising along and I looked down in my lap and saw this little black disk. At the time the plane I was flying was an ultra with the precise flight conservers, and I thought the disk looked like the adjustment dial on the outside of the unit. After a few seconds of fiddling with it, I realized I was trying to put it back together, but it wasn’t apart…. By the grace of god I realized that what I was doing made no sense whatsoever and I engaged the vertical descent for 1400fpm and still to this day do not recall the next two or three minutes. What I do recall is being level at 8,000 ft with atc calling me asking intentions. I hit replay on the g1000 and listened to me responding to them and taking instruction. I did not sound like myself, but I was responding. I do not remember any of this… After my wits were about me again I looked down and realized my arm had gotten wrapped around the o2 hose going to my mask and had inadvertently pulled the grommet out of the front of my mask at 25,000ft. The disk was the grommet, and if one was completely cogent, would never had mistaken it for anything else. I don’t know how long it had been pulled out, or how long it took me to notice something was wrong. The flight recorder only goes back about 2.5 minutes on a constant loop, so that’s all I could listen to. I don’t know how long the entire event lasted, but I did realize how close I came to being a bad story. There is certainly more elevated risk at those altitudes, and one must be very vigilant, aware and have some routine to check yourself very regularly. I personally stay 19k or below if I am alone, and will only go to 25k with someone else and if we pick up enough time to really make a difference. This isn’t my recommendation or suggestion, it’s merely a personal minimum in my Mooney, or any non pressurized airplane. Things can deteriorate much quicker than you would like to believe… Last thought on this story… I was embarrassed by this. I felt foolish, like my arrogance and confidence led me to a bad choice that could have killed me. I finally opened up and told the story to a pilot friend of mine and he told me I should share, because perhaps someone could benefit from hearing my mistake. I sure hope it does, because I still feel foolish.

Think you’re a mooniac now, just wait! congratulations!

Lol. That’s the best you got?

Lots of good reasons to get a turbo. Plenty of valid reasons it isn’t “needed” as well.. That being said, not a lot of people who own a turbo and are (edited) not anxious to go back to no turbo. There must be a reason for that.

What I find to be the most disingenuous part of this debate globally, is the way that those who don’t argue the climate is changing, but are unconvinced that man is the one changing it, are lumped in with the conspiracy theory. Volcanic emission, sea floor methane seeps, solar flares etc. There are myriad real things that are all part of this equation. However, those have no value in quantifying because we cannot control them. This planet will be here billions of years after humans are gone. it will shrug us off the same way it has done for all the previous billions of years of extreme heat, cold, and extinctions. Thinking we can destroy it is hubris on the highest order.

That pic looks like you are enjoying a glass panel!

When I turn on my g1000 it easily takes 2-3 minutes after I turn on AP switch. Before it starts engaging. fwiw, I’m just trying to be optimistic. I would like to know what the problem is when you find out.

I did the entire engine of both of my ovations, only had to do a few pieces on the acclaims over the years.

The other geebee guy used to strenuously make a point that using too thick a material will wear a hole in your cowling. I was dubious of this, but the top section of one of my ovations did wear through the paint on the inside within 20hours of the new baffling. I had the old black rubber and I changed it for the red silicone. I changed that section out to the next thinner thickness out of precaution. I would make sure you keep an eye on those areas to see if chaffing is a problem.

You could fit every human on the planet into the state of Texas and they would each have over 1500sqft, and Texas is less then .01% of the earths surface. Human can certainly make a mess of small portions of our environment, but to suggest we could alter the fate of a planet is pure hubris and poppycock. Carbon is also the building block of life. The climate may well be changing, but man’s affect on that is not a determining factor. If you pee in the ocean you have technically raised the sea level, but is it enough to measure? Lastly since I’m throwing gas on the fire, an acre of grass absorbs more co2 than an acre of forest.

I agree with this, I’ve blocked a few, who seemed to be posting purely for the agitation effect, but even the majority of ones that may annoy me from time to time I leave visible. Mostly because I’m far from perfect either… I had lots disagree with things I say, and I’ve disagreed with more than a few as well. If something really gets under my skin I either write what I feel and delete, or I just blow it off. I try really hard not to stir the pot. As far as I can tell, nearly everyone here has good intentions, even if the “way I read what they wrote” doesn’t impact me that way in the moment. I prefer to assume they are all good guys. I have enough unsolicited friction in my daily life with people, I certainly don’t want to add to that on a forum where I come simply to learn and hopefully share what little I know with people that share my interest in mooney’s.

You can absolutely disengage the AP with the g1000 screen as well as the red disconnect button. I will tell you I have had this happen to me a few times over the years and the first time it freaked me out and I didn’t realize until I landed that I had actually flipped the AP rocker switch. I don’t know if I inadvertently hit it, or maybe a passenger, it just didn’t occur to me to check it, because I didn’t intentionally turn it off. It’s happened a few times since then, and I always check the rocker switch first and it’s been flipped every time. if everything is working as normal now and you can’t recall if you checked the rocker switch in flight, I’m betting that’s what it was.

Electric trim will not work with the autopilot off. why do you turn it off?

Drilling out the old rivets is the most tedious part of this process. Two people, one with a shop vac and one on the drill makes it much easier. Take one piece of baffling out at a time, lay the old and new on top of one another to align and punch the first hole in the new baffle, keep the old baffle on top and put an unpunched rivet in the first hole to align them. Then punch each hole and immediately put a rivet in each one, like cleco’s, working your way to the end. By the time you get to the end of the baffle this will keep the rivet pattern and when you mount the new baffle it will be perfectly aligned with all the holes in the aluminum parts of the baffles.

Uncontrolled fields really are the wild Wild West. It’s just like social media, people say things they would never say to your face. At uncontrolled fields people do things they can’t get away with where there is a tower. I know you guys say things happen at controlled fields but those are mostly mistakes, not people being jerks.