WaynePierce

It's my understanding that this is why the "J" is easily a feet on the floor during cruise and cruise turns.

It would be real easy to say forget about the rest of the family and get your plane, but in reality it's a much tougher decision. I'm fortunate that my wife loves to fly with me, especially when we're going to see her Mom or or Grand-kids, both about a 10 hour drive or 11 depending on traffic, or a 3 hour flight in our J. The old adage of, if Momma aint happy, nobody's happy would be very appropriate for you. If you are going to end up just getting a plane for the occasional 100 dollar hamburger I think you would be ok, if you spend a lot on a traveling machine yet your family drives you may be asking for trouble. Nothing wrong with a C for toodling around and if you are alone you have all the space (and speed) you need and you don't have to break the bank to own one....

I wasn't surprised that Mooney's were not available but I was surprised that Piper isn't represented. It looks like this is more for pilot wannabe's rather than real pilots being able to use it as a tool for our own planes/benefits/training.

I'm wanting to put a desulfator/trickle charger, in the plane on it's next annual. I can't find or I don't know which log book to look in but I cant find what battery is in place or when it was last replaced. I looked at the air-frame log book pretty in depth and can't find when it was replaced. I popped the top off the batter box and peered inside, this is what I saw... thank you and forgive the newb question...

Not at awl.

ukrsindicate, you have mentioned fuel mixture a couple of times, and that may be part of the issue. Mooney's don't do well, in my reading and experience, at full rich. Play with it and see where the leanest to taxi is, enrichen a tad and taxi out with that setting then enrichen a bit when you do the runup and definitely have it richer for takeoff but still probably not full rich. My J likes to be out almost an inch. I, too, think you have more going on though. 2,000 foot takeoff roll and I'd be aborting the takeoff. I too am just a private pilot with only a year Mooney experience so I don't know what I don't know.

I, for one, have learned from this post. I don't think I'd ever heard of a "flangable light"... so I googled and found this:

I keep expecting to see that someone that we all hold in the highest regards has created a corporation and purchased the name and buildings...

I thought the oil filter would always be almost half full, with the port in the center the oil below the port would remain in the filter? (port may be the wrong word, i used drain originally but didn't think that was correct either)

It's the reverse Tardis affect. I'm surprised the Johnson bar can handle the landing gear... Very impressive.

These look like a great idea, i wonder how they would fare with 100LL spilled on them?

OK, admittedly I'm not the brightest light on the tree when it comes to IT stuff, but ... how would you add this to your iPhone to work out in the air? Thank you and enjoy the fish.

I used pillow foam from Walmart and cut to size... This plane is in a hangar most of the time, except when traveling, but it keeps the bugs and birds out.

Granted, most of you Mooney drivers are IR but I'm not. One thing I've found is I can buy the insurance and then have a partner as an additional pilot as long as they have their IR and some additional time in type, I think its 100 hours in type.

I watched a YouTube video over the weekend where an RV8 driver did the trifecta of NYC with a low pass ate each. Then last night watched Christopher do the 3 ship Mooney low approach. Lot's of low passes and t-n-g's at the big places right now. The only thing I've seen similar in the recent past was after the 911 shutdowns, where places like KMEM were asking schools for help in landing so they could improve their traffic counts.

I like the sheet rock screw go-around button...

My plane was probably in the factory at the same time yours was... N5807T 1985 J Congratulations on the purchase!

There are currently reports of pilots being charged landing fees that have overflown airports. Evidently linking back to a 3rd party vendor using ADS-B to gather the information.

My one and only insurance claim was for something that looked exactly like that. Hangar rash from an I-beam. I had a reputable company re-skin it and paint it. then made sure all the paperwork was added to the log. I felt sick...

I had my Annual done at prebuy and it was only a couple of months early. It's all apart with inspection covers open, so it's a good time for it. But having a prebuy done in December, I'd think long and hard about every December for an annual. But, I've got 5 grand-kids.

I have them in my 1985 J, it's Special Edition. I don't know if they would work on the rails of a K, but worth looking in to. Our seats also aren't the most comfortable seats around and need to be reupholstered, but until then we have a couple of seat cushions made by a company called "Purple". They are known for their mattresses but they got their start designing seat cushions for wheel chairs to relieve pressure point issue. We got the 1" seat cushions but they also make a 2" version as well. They have helped tremendously. https://purple.com/seatcushions

Seems like mid September is a popular time to pick up you first Mooney. I got my 85J last mid September. I've just finished up my first annual and it was relatively painless. Still waiting on ADS-B buy my avionics guy says no problem getting it done in time. Updating my panel as well with an Avidyne 550 and an L3 transponder and an Avidyne audio panel. Keeping a 430w in the panel as com/nav 2.

I solo'd when I was 18 or 19 with a special Piper had going in Winter Haven, in '78, then family came along and we were young and poor. Driving home from the birth of our first grand-child, an 11 hour drive I decided it was time to make that trip shorter. All of my training, except for spin, was in a 172 when I was doing my cross countries and finished the mandatory solo hours I bought in to a Cherokee 180. I flew that plane for about 10 years. A year ago this month I bought a J, I had about 350 hours at the time. I was also looking to spend about what you are looking to spend. I had to increase that but found a great 1985 model with low time on a reman'd engine. The ONLY thing you will regret if you buy the Mooney is; it's very hard to build time. These planes are quick when compared to most SEL planes. You simply get there sooner. The lesson of your Dad landing with no gear down will be one you can learn from and probably will always check, "just one more gumps..." before touch down.

I solo'd when I was 18 or 19 with a special Piper had going in Winter Haven, in '78, then family came along and we were young and poor. Driving home from the birth of our first grand-child, an 11 hour drive I decided it was time to make that trip shorter. All of my training, except for spin, was in a 172 when I was doing my cross countries and finished the mandatory solo hours I bought in to a Cherokee 180. I flew that plane for about 10 years. A year ago this month I bought a J, I had about 350 hours at the time. I was also looking to spend about what you are looking to spend. I had to increase that but found a great 1985 model with low time on a reman'd engine. The ONLY thing you will regret if you buy the Mooney is; it's very hard to build time. These planes are quick when compared to most SEL planes. You simply get there sooner. The lesson of your Dad landing with no gear down will be one you can learn from and probably will always check, "just one more gumps..." before touch down.

I solo'd when I was 18 or 19 with a special Piper had going in Winter Haven, in '78, then family came along and we were young and poor. Driving home from the birth of our first grand-child, an 11 hour drive I decided it was time to make that trip shorter. All of my training, except for spin, was in a 172 when I was doing my cross countries and finished the mandatory solo hours I bought in to a Cherokee 180. I flew that plane for about 10 years. A year ago this month I bought a J, I had about 350 hours at the time. I was also looking to spend about what you are looking to spend. I had to increase that but found a great 1985 model with low time on a reman'd engine. The ONLY thing you will regret if you buy the Mooney is; it's very hard to build time. These planes are quick when compared to most SEL planes. You simply get there sooner. The lesson of your Dad landing with no gear down will be one you can learn from and probably will always check, "just one more gumps..." before touch down.