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In my experience a little velcro goes a long way.

Our C had an Appareo transponder connected to a Stratus 2i ads-b receiver. This was awesome, because the Stratus was connected to one of the ships' an external L-band transponder antennas. Our J has no such thing. I have a Stratus 3 sitting on the glareshield and the ads-b reception (FIS-B and TIS-B) is not nearly as good. It doesn't detect as many nearby aircraft either. So I bought an external L-band ads-b antenna for it, which came without a mount. How do folks mount their external antenna?

I use miles to buy airline tickets well in advance of important trips. Cancel up to 24 hours in advance, and they just put the miles back in your account. I use Windy.com. They show output from several different weather prediction models (NOAA GFS and EMCWF). With an 16 hour time forecast lead time you can browse output from NOAA's High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model run, giving you a pretty detailed forecast of tomorrow's weather tonight. That will show you how organized the convection will likely be. You can watch forecasts diverge as you increase the forecast lead time. Beyond 5-7 days forecast lead time- forget it. Just because a model gives a forecast for days 7-14 doesn't mean that it has much if any value.

One other thing. I was surprised to find that the trim/flap indicator light on our J is on the glareshield light dimmer, not the panel light dimmer. I wonder why they did that? I'd prefer it be on the panel light circuit, because I don't ordinarily use the glareshield lights.

Done. Here are the steps I took on the second one, because I learned a bit from the first one. Here's a HOWTO in the style of @carusoam, with supporting photos. 1. Tools: carpet knife, two thin flat blade screwdrivers, plastic scraper 2. Target: crazed sight gage lens 3. Score lens with knife until through 4. Insert small blade screwdriver through plastic lens where scored through 5. Gently pry to break out lens in chunks 6. Insert small screwdriver around perimeter and gently pry up 7. Once you get it up far enough to insert a second screwdriver, pry sequentially to extend gap 8. At some point you'll hear the silicone bonds start to break 9. Lift old gauge out 10. Bottom of gage receptacle is full of dried silicone 11. Use plastic scraper to remove 12. It takes some elbow grease 13. Viola!

Works now. Replaced bulb this evening. Used a 3/8" open end wrench to back out the socket. Thanks @PT20J for the guidance!

Both are IO-360 with minor case differences. Regarding fuel servo I don't know, probably the same I'd guess. From my experience with our C, I do know that the O-360 used in the C&G uses takeoff ff of 18 gph for 180 hp to keep the CHT's below 410. Therefore, for 200 hp with the IO-360, the take off ff should be nearer to 20 gph.

Your takeoff fuel flow looks like it might be too low. It should be closer to 20 gph when taking off near sea level. In my J it is close to 20 gph and my CHT's are below 350.

Hover your cursor over the icon for the user, and an option will pop up "Ignore". Click that.

The list format gives -a- away.

A month ago I read that one of the strengths of chat-gpt is in writing code. Over the past few weeks I've been testing it. It can write simple code to do ordinary things. That's good. But when given a challenging problem, it makes assumptions that are silly, and/or violate the problem statement. I tried leading it around the block and found that each iteration it would sometimes forget where we had been and make the same silly assumptions once again. I remain unimpressed.

At 2.6 lbs for processor and antenna, it is pretty light. On the down side the cost is a bit more than 2 amu's/lb.

The location of that spot seems strange. Any idea what caused such "localized" corrosion? Why that spot? Why on the leg of the angle that was oriented vertically?

Lately I've been researching the differences between Stormscopes and Strike Finders. Stormscopes all seem to come in at about 9-10 lbs including display, antenna and processing unit. Strike finders weigh only under 2 pounds total (incl. antenna). Given that their performance is similar (decent in azimuth, not great in range), and one shouldn't use them to slalom through convection, I'm thinking about "upgrading" to a Strike Finder.

Our '83J has a little cap above the indicator with four ridges arranged in a "X" that looks like it might be removable. Is that the same as your '94?

During a recent evening flight I noticed that our J has no trim/flap indicator light. The wiring diagram for this S/N shows one. Is it internal to the indicator?

Stumbled upon this article on the interwebs this evening. Thought I would share it. Who wants one? https://sanangelolive.com/news/business/2023-05-01/predator-flies-san-angelo

Recently bought replacement wingtop sight fuel level indicators. I've read that they are held in their socket by silicone. How does one go about removing them without damaging the socket? Is there a snap ring around the top? Thx. -Fred

I'd suggest that you turn it into an "EASY" button.

Possibly the first private company to make a crater on the moon?

Good luck. Discipline is hard when you have Mooney Fever!

Really? They must be horrible!

Got the plane back from the shop with JPI EDM900 installed. Went over last Saturday for a test flight and to help calibrate fuel senders. Before startup everything seemed to be working. All EGT and CHT's were about 70F. On first test flight the EGT probes on cyl 2 & 4 both read about 600 degrees F less than cyls 1 & 3! Weirdness. When I tested the lean find function, they responded normally when displayed in normalized view. Landed and they put two of the old EGT probes on those two cylinders and the problem disappeared! What are the odds of 2/4 new EGT probes being "bad"? I guess >0. They installed the new JPI shunt on the firewall in the engine compartment and left the original shunt in place. In fact they never saw the original shunt. It's in there somewhere in the vicinity of the avionics cooling fan, way in the back. Removing it would require a lot of disassembly. Everything works!

Ok, here are photos showing a just completed improvement of the panel in our new-to-us M20J. She came with fogged-up ASI and altimeter, TC with noisy bearings and a non-primary engine monitor, which left legacy gauges galore. We wanted to move the KX-155 below the Avidyne GPS, but the entire panel seems to have been riveted together on a bench, then put into the airplane. Impossible to move racks around without taking the whole thing out. The final photo shows overhauled ASI, Altimeter, non-TSO vacuum AI replaced, primary (JPI EDM-900) engine monitor installed, legacy engine gauges and ADF removed, USB power port and uAvionix AV-20-S timer/backup AI added.