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I flew into HOU and used Signature and it was a surprisingly nice experience. Rental car was ready to go and they waived some of the fees for taking fuel. I was only there for two or three nights I think. Tower did want me to maintain best forward speed and being lower time pilot at the time I figured 100mph was booking it. Pretty sure I caused the 737 behind me to make a 360 but no one yelled at me.
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430w or 175 in vintage Mooney?
The Other Red Baron replied to Rmfriday's topic in Vintage Mooneys (pre-J models)
If you're uncertain this is your forever plane I wouldn't throw a penny into the panel that you don't need to. Fly the hell out of it and upgrade. Unless you just hate money! -
Normally our fuel pressure on the M20E fluctuates between 28-31psi but is generally near 30-31. We've flown like this for years and my understanding from multiple mechanics is this is just the way these newer fuel pumps operate. On my flight today after about 30 minutes I noticed the fuel pressure begin to drop down to 23-24psi then creep back up. At the same time the fuel flow would increase (which seems opposite of what I would expect). I was cruising at 9.2/gph but it would jump to ~10gph. When it would get down to ~23psi the engine would make a sound and felt like we temporarily lost some power. Switched tanks and turned on the boost pump which looked like it helped. Landed, stretch legs, etc. went to start back up on the fresh tank and got a big red X on the engine monitor's fuel pressure so I decided to throw in the towel. Does this sound like a failing engine fuel pump? I ended up getting a rental car and driving home and started thinking maybe the right tank fuel vent was clogged but I don't think that would explain the X on the fuel pressure engine monitor. Annual was in May and we've flown some fairly long XC since then.
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Another vintage advertisement photo
The Other Red Baron replied to Mcstealth's topic in General Mooney Talk
Some kind of Convair? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_CV-240_family -
Don, Where the heck did you put the suction cup? I can never find a good placement over there and I hate putting weight on the yoke.
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Today's flight for 2023
The Other Red Baron replied to dominikos's topic in Miscellaneous Aviation Talk
Jul 16th we were going opposite direction dodging storms and stuck in smoke that weekend. I23 -> ARG -> VBT -
Normal temps to me in my 1965E. Funny all these temperature posts are popping up. I have to climb 120/mph in summer if not a bit slower. We also have a 3 blade but it is all I've ever known on the Mooney so I'm not sure about cruise speed impact. -- edit: just noticed you seem to get the same oil temps with the oil cooler relocation mod as my stock 1965E with the oil cooler in the front.
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Considering M20C
The Other Red Baron replied to JChrisAero's topic in Vintage Mooneys (pre-J models)
That was a good price range pre-2020 but good luck now. We have an E now but I'm still kicking myself for not jumping on a well equipped C in 2018. If you're out West it probably isn't as big of a deal but flying IMC in the East I personally really really appreciate a good autopilot. A friend and I both low time pilots recently flew similar approaches in IMC into different airports, but I have an autopilot and he doesn't. I got the feeling his approach was a butt-puckering experience while mine was just a heightened alertness. He's a better pilot than me. -
Oil temp / Cowl Flaps
The Other Red Baron replied to TIP_Fytr's topic in Vintage Mooneys (pre-J models)
Our fins were beat up pretty good so we asked our local shop if they could comb the fins out but it made no noticeable difference in oil temperature. -
Oil temp / Cowl Flaps
The Other Red Baron replied to TIP_Fytr's topic in Vintage Mooneys (pre-J models)
Yep I looked into that but unfortunately we don't have the correct serial number. I think we have the "doghouse." -
Oil temp / Cowl Flaps
The Other Red Baron replied to TIP_Fytr's topic in Vintage Mooneys (pre-J models)
We have an E as well with the exact same oil temperature issue. Just have to keep the cowl flaps open until winter (if you have a winter.) If you decide to throw money at it and find a solution please let me know. -
I copied these measurements and they seem to be in good enough territory for me. 90% of my trips I'm filling the tanks up every chance I get any way.
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Big Brother Landing Fees
The Other Red Baron replied to FlyingDude's topic in Miscellaneous Aviation Talk
KHSD is privately owned and open to the public. Pretty nice place my only complaint is no after hours access. https://skyvector.com/airport/HSD/Sundance-Airport -
This was what I was going to mention. After multiple flights of easy direct to xxxxx approaches I finally had one where I was about to begin the approach, wife's first approach in actual IMC on top of it, then given 10 degrees left. Had a split second helmet fire then bugged the current heading, turned off GPSS, and then turned the bug 10 left. If I hadn't bugged the heading but turned off GPSS it probably would have turned to 180 because until then I only bugged the heading for taking off. I could have turned the bug 10 left and forgot about GPSS and wondered why the heck it wasn't doing what I wanted it to. Yes if I started asking "why is it doing that" I could have just turned off AP and hand flown but it was bumpy as hell and the STEC was doing a great job and I wanted to keep it that way. Ended up being a non-event thankfully but it got me back to reading and thinking about order of operations.
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I was trying to figure out how to pick up our plane this week from annual when the forecast was looking like thunderstorms on both ends of the flight all week. Green stuff on the radar still spooks me. I decided I'm going to fly down commercial and just hop back from BFE airport to BFE airport if needed to dodge pop up storms, crash on couches, etc. Turned out to be completely VFR the whole trip. A few days before I'm still watching weather channel forecast. The day/night before I read the forecast discussion on ForeFlight and check this https://beta.aviationweather.gov/gfa and it turned out their forecast within 24 hours was pretty darn accurate. When to buy commercial tickets, well I should have bought a day earlier so I could sleep in a couple more hours getting down to the shop.
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First post, an introduction and some questions.
The Other Red Baron replied to FADEC's topic in General Mooney Talk
We were on tie downs 5 minutes away from the airport. A hangar opened up at an airport 25 minutes away and we jumped on it. Our flying dropped dramatically (but this was also in 2021 during covid so your mileage may vary) -
I watched it last night. Just off the top of my head... Wrong United livery for 2009. During the climb the altimeter was spinning like a cartoon clock. In real life there was no storm, no allergic reaction, they couldn't move the pilot out of the seat, Doug actually had a bit of Cessna flight time... What was that GPS unit? The two flight sim kids felt thrown in like an afterthought. Not sure what was the point of including them. There's plenty more I forgot about already. I'm normally not a film critic but it was pretty bad. I guess a doctor watching House would have the same feeling.
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G5 IGRF Database out of date
The Other Red Baron replied to Ragsf15e's topic in Avionics/Panel Discussion
How do you guys keep informed of updates like this? Do you rely on your avionics shop to tell you, do you check out the manufacturer websites periodically? When I was looking into this IGRF issue I just randomly found this and both my serial numbers are affected: https://atlaske-content.garmin.com/filestorage//email/outbound/attachments/22013a_Time1644852998329.pdf https://support.garmin.com/en-US/aviation/faq/3PZHfyHuHk4mBgBhsEMZN9/