JimB

I have owned my Mooney since 2019 and every year have tried to upgrade or improve on everything. Airframe has 2910.7 hours with no gear up damage history. Engine has 1134.2 TSO. Compressions 3/18/24 #1-76, #2-74, #3-71, #4-73. New (12/20) MT 3 blade Propeller has 71.7. Garmin Dual G5s Garmin GNX 375 GPS/Transponder Garmin GNC 255 Garmin GTR 225 Garmin GMA 345 Garmin GFC 500 Autopilot JPI 900 Primary Engine Analyzer Whelen LED Orion 650 Nav and Strobes CIES Digital fuel probes Mid-Continent digital clock/timer and USB charger Garmin GSB 15 charger ACK ELT Model E-04 Aircraft BEW 1702.0 lbs Arm 44.06 Useful Load 1038 lbs Main landing gear shock discs replaced 06/21 New Sky-Tec 149NL starter 04/22 RH Magneto overhauled 04/22 Main Door seal replaced 05/21 New Prestolite Alternator and Zeftronics regulator 07/19 Replaced NLG Steering horn 06/19 Bruce custom fuselage cover Aircraft is currently in maintenance at KIND (March 18) and will be returned to service with fresh Annual, 91.411 (Altimeter IFR) and 91.143 (Transponder) checks. Also installing Microkit Solutions Landing Height and Gear Warning System LHS-200-C. All Garmin software (G5s, GFC and GNX) will be updated to the latest versions. This was to be my “forever plane” and I have treated her as such. She has taken my wife and I all over the Midwest, the Southeast and to the Bahamas. I have upgraded everything I could and next on the list was to be an updated interior. Nothing wrong with the current interior but it is a bit dated looking. I am only selling since I don’t have the opportunity to fly her as much anymore and my wife and I have changed our long term plans. I will also provide manuals and Mooney specific tools if you want them. Offering her for $124,900 OBO

I'm probably not going to 100% agree. I think in certain circumstances they are pretty much perfect. If I had a service type business and fleet of vehicles I would use them. Something like an HVAC or plumbing business where the trucks go out in the morning and return to shop each day and go maybe 100-150 miles at the most during the day. I also think something like Amazon, UPS, Postal carriers, FEDEX it all makes a lot of sense. They all leave with a full charge each morning and come back to be charged each night. And there is very little maintenance.

Just drove from Indianapolis to Galveston. TX. Yes I spent a lot of time charging. But I will say this is by far one of the nicest, most comfortable and absolutely the fastest vehicle I have ever driven. Long trips not all that great with the time spent charging. At home, you wake up every morning to a full tank of gas and about 320 miles of range.

It comes as a complete kit from Garmin with the control head, servos and all the brackets. Its hard to piecemeal it and you will have to go to a Garmin dealer to buy it and install it. You might find one that will let you assist but in the overall installation its not going to mean that much. And BTW.... IA= Inspection Authorization AI = Artificial Intelligence

Yes. Flat rated at $450 for the transponder/encoder and all the altimeters installed in the aircraft. G5s, GI-275s, G1000, G3X, standbys and mechanical. Biggest issue we run in to is tracking down static leaks and it doesn't matter if the aircraft is new or old. Usually its pretty easy and it doesn't add to the cost but sometimes it can take a lot of time.

I don't know why anyone would think calibrating the G5s is difficult. I have done a bunch. It's just part of the 91.411/.413 check. As a digital instrument, once it is calibrated, it stays pretty consistent.

Well typically a Hobbs hour meter is for billing/log book time and the tach is for tracking maintenance. A lot of newer Garmin systems provide "Air Time" and this is what you use for maintenance tracking. Never seen a maintenance meter. Maybe it was wired to a squat switch.

Indianapolis Executive - Baxley GA - Fort Pierce, FL - North Eleuthera in my F model all in the same day....it was a very long day even with the stops.

No worries. The price is actually very reasonable. Just thought I would ask

Sounds good and that is what I thought but wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything. Sounded like it might be possible from reading the install manual but I didn't know of any GPS units reporting data in AGL. Guess I should ask since I am a Mooney CB, any coupon codes or discounts?

Maybe I missed it in this thread. Are any of the GPS units reporting altitude as AGL based on a terrain database or are all of them reporting MSL?

Just another unrelated data point that I have noticed in the used aircraft market. A 210 is going to cost a lot more to buy initially (for a comparably equipped aircraft), for maintenance and for operation (fuel and engine reserves)

This gets described a lot online. I wonder why Lycoming doesn't publish a SL with the procedure in it?

That looks like a front seal to me. Maybe clean it up and see if the prop is slinging it outward. Even a front seal might show some on the front of the case. For it to all of the sudden spring a leak at the front of the case seems a bit odd.

Both GI-275s will have a battery back up source that are certified to last a minimum of an hour. There is also a required capacitance check that is done annually to be sure they can provide power for that hour.