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My suggestion: If it's really dirty do it twice. You should do this indoors or at least in the shade 1) make 2 gallons with 1 oz ONR. Use the sponge really wet and dripping...squeeze it out over a section at a time so any dirt is really wet and running off, sponge to clean. Rinse the sponge in the bucket and reload it. Repeat over whole airplane. If you can do this quickly enough that it never dries, dont worry about drying... 2) I guess you should have 2 buckets. Second one same solution. Now a more standard ONR wash, slightly drippy sponge, wash a section, dry and buff with dry microfiber towel. Do 1 section at a time until complete. 3) C2V3 as above. If it's very warm outside probably no waiting: spray on, wipe off to mirror shine one section at a time ( a section is maybe 4' x 2' give or take, 4' of wing maybe half the chord at any point)

7F, not 7C. But we quibble.

All true...at 85% power. I'm loafing at 65% power. The fuel specifics of the IO-550 are certainly better than the TSIO-520. If I pushed it up to 76% power and 21 gph I'd get around 210 KTAS though. I hear you. Cirrus is making what people will buy if they're spending $800k+, to start production back up Mooney has to do something different Can you still buy the R9 upgrade? Isn't that a 100k thing?

I got to thinking about this table this afternoon. The SR22TN can't do this at 16,000 on 17.8 gph. And your 2006 Cirrus has Avidynes...which are fine, but no way to get Syn Viz, no touch screens. And with those limitations it'd still cost at least $60k more than I have in my Rocket with 2019 paint, interior, and avionics. But I do only have 900 lb UL.

Well...I flew an SR20 once, my first flight in 13 years since I sold my M20J in 2005. It was nice, but I found its performance "uninspiring". At the time I thought it had a Lycoming IO-360...later discovered it was a Continental IO-360. 4 cyl vs 6 cyl...but stil the performance was not what I remembered from my 201. I transitioned to the SR22 hoping to scratch my returned itch to fly. Finished all the Cirrus training, and on my 4th or 5th flight thereafter I was just out to fly. Leveled off at 6000' set up in cruise at 75% power burning 18.9 gph...and I did not quite have 170 KTAS. Uninspiring...actually maddening. Brute force, yes, but that performance from 310 hp and 19 gph? I missed my Mooney. I now own a Rocket. I was at 5,000 feet last Sunday heading home to Ohio from KJVY. 17.8 gph, 175 KTAS at 65% power, engine not even trying hard. Way back in the day, my '78 M20J would consistently get 162 KTAS on 11 gph Point is: i think your Cirrus speeds are "book speeds"...my experience is neither will do that. I supposed you get by with the word "compare"...150-155 knots will "compare" with an M20J...but it sure ain't the same. I think an Ovation will outrun any NA SR22 by 7-10 knots at all altitudes, and probalby do it on at least 2-3 gph less gas. Turbos? same, probably a better delta in favor of the M20Ts. Is a Cirrus "bigger"? Feels bigger. More comfortable? Personal preference: I like my Mooney, I like the sitting position, I like how it feels in my hands, and I like the exhileration of seeing the elegance of the engineering that produces the raw speed.

Scott connector. It's the green one in that Precise flight photo

you won't find better than AGL.

If your plan is to spend $20k this year to get an EFIS, my suggestion is that you install a 10" G3X touch. it has its own VFR GPS. I think (not certain) that if you don't intend to certify the install for IFR, you may not need the G5 backup in the first bite...but that's just about $3k installed. the two of them about $16k all in. Now, you can't get the EDM 900 installed or the rest of your first 20k (4k left but the 900 installed will be about $7000). You MIGHT be able to get EIS on th the G3x for the $4k, however. $20K next year: $10k for a GTN650, and $10 for 2 axis GFC500, without pitch trim. $3k more gets you pitch trim. Just a thought. A single Aspen installed is about the same cost of a G3x installed. Also, I'm almost certain the Aspen requires a GPS input to display complete air data, I don't think you can make it even usable without a GPS input. FWIW. Based on installed prices for the same stuff in my panel in 2019.

Does what you have look like this?

I'd keep looking for a better price. FWIW--mine was all part of a total panel re-do, but in my deal these items were separately priced: G-5 AI (installed as backup to G3X): $3250 GFC500 2 axis installed: $10,700 Electric trim, installed (3rd servo): $3100 That's about $17,000. Another G5 will cost about $2500, plus a magnetomter, other stuff and install labor as an HSI equal to the hardware cost--figure maybe $5000??? I'm not sure I see how this gets to be more than somethig between $20-25K. I also had Gulf Coast quote me--they were way higher. I live in Ohio, I left my Rocket at the shop in Greeley, CO for 8 weeks to get it done, but it was $5k less than any other quote I got.

I was reading. Got a new smartwatch yesterday and found this cool customizable watch face

It looks like it has TKS installed? My bet is one owner had the tanks installed and still had at least 70 lb more UL, so the tanks could make sense for one person. Next owner put 8n TKS and never planned to use those tanks. Maybe. What I've seen (I think, small sample size): 231s seem to have much better UL than 252s. The 252 did come with a better turbo, auto wastegate, and intercooler, but how that ends up 200 -250 lbs more than a 231 I can't understand. I kinda suspect (a suspicion quietly hinted at by a famous Mooney person) that the factory may have once upon a time weighed before painting and not recorded it that way, but 252s logs I've looked at all seem to have a post paint weight entry. Point is that if any of that is true, all the numbers are highly suspect. So on a given day there are 231 Rockets with 1100 lb UL while my 252 Rocket is barely 900. Clearly they'll all fly at the heavier weight...

There's been a glitch in their domain server since I found the site 18 months ago. pasted links seem to get you an error. Google "Mooney Speed Shop", follow the link, it'll work. Bookmark that link for next time...the ladies like the SWAG, too, and if it makes them wanna fly more......

@aviatoreb I had it done when the whole panel was done--included removal of the whole KFC200 system. My quote/contract showed the GFC separately priced with that number. But of course I also did the G3X, G5, EDM900, GTX345R, and GTN750 at the same time. what it included--everything. control head, 3 servos (pitch, roll, and pitch trim) wiring, etc. One thing though: I noticed just before I "accepted" the quote that there was fine print saying the installer got to keep all the removed stuff. I'd sorta planned on selling the KFC200 myself, but I ended up just letting him keep all but the GDC-31, FS210, and the Rocket Engineering airspeed indicator (souvenir). I'm sure if he keeps the stuff it reduces the price. I also left it in Greeley, CO for 8 weeks to get this done...I think if you're willing to look for a really good price and don't care where you take it, you can do very well.

My GFC500 was $13,800 installed (M20K). 2 axis with pitch trim, no yaw damper. I think I've seen posts up near $18-20k but there are cheaper ways to do it. The G3X WILL drive 3rd party autopilot, but the annunciations on the display won't work: you'll need to keep the old annunciator.

I intended to have this done when the panel was done, but it got away from me. Plan is to mount an iPad mini as shown in the photo, using a RAM TabTite holder, machine screws, a .5" thick rubber pad for standoff and vibe isolation, through the blank powder coated aluminum panel into....nut plates I think. Questions are: 1. Am I allowed to do this or do I need an A&P to do it? 2. Are nut plates the way to go? 3. Are the adhesive nut plates shown the way to best do it? Any and all advice/experience/ better ideas appreciated.

Cool, hope they keep at it! Won't it be funny if the Whelen model looks very much like this one?

I think it all depends a lot on what else is in your panel. If all you have is a vacuum AI, Vacuum DG, one GPS that's talking to essentially nothing, and you're getting the iPad so you can have an EFB plus moving map GPS and Syn Vis...then, yeah, the cell version with GPS makes sense. If you already have 3 AHRS in the panel, 2 WAAS and 1 non-WAAS GPS, all able to bluetooth to any device you bring into the cockipit--you probably don't need to spend the extra $100 on the cellular iPad. OR--you can buy just about any Android tab and it comes with a GPS. But-none of them, GPS or not, is going to give you Syn Viz with an attitude reference unless you have at least 1 AHRS source somewhere-- G5, G3X, FS210/510, GTX345, or a portable.

I thought about IAS vs TAS. I figured if the C2V3 was getting hit by water droplets and possibly eroding it that would be happening at TAS vice IAS. But I'm scratching my noggin about that...might be IAS is more appropriate.

Nice white feathery stuff...

I flew through some clouds last week at 197 KTAS...didn't seem to bother it at all.

I first did mine in January and it looks fantastic. It's in a heated hangar though

Looking at the grid, seems you're right on the money for ~65% "economy" power, no? I'd be fast if I was at 12,000', but I was at 16,000. AT FL180 should be 208 KTAS. Really ought to be around 201 KTAS at 16,000 I think...roughly. But hey--within 4 knots of a book number, what's to complain about?

LMAO priceless

Excellent that's what I planned. Now to figure out how to bedazzle it with a Mooney logo...