chriscalandro

Lol at used probes for 50$

It’s also worth noting, much like the example ad you listed, people think they will recoup their maintenance costs. Putting 30k into maintenance costs has 0 recoverable costs. Maintenance items decrease the sale price when needed. They don’t increase the price above normal when completed. if say the example you listed has no appreciable avionics enhancements or add ons. if it’s what it says it is (it probably isn’t) it’s worth MAYBE 50s. Certainly not in the 90s. That’s a solid lol number.

Here’s some advice - that is not a 90k airplane. not by a long shot.

I’m at kpoc. Few months ago. Survey went out about 100ll availability and the new lead free options. The letter / survey made it seem likely that the county would be moving to implement lead free fuel at all county run airports. (They recently took over anything that wasn’t privately owned from a 3rd party management) I would expect all S California airports to be early in this distribution.

Near end of life could also mean they’re showing signs of cracking and … being toward the end of their useful life.

A deposit wouldn’t have done anything for you. Not with a fallout like replacing bladders. I’m sure there was more than that. Post the entire list.

Maybe there some other unobtainable airworthiness items that Mooney can work with the FAA on to insure the blockage of owner assisted parts, speeding up the demise of the existing fleet. then you will HAVE to buy a new Mooney.

It took a few hours to get used to. It doesn’t float at all, so coming from 600 plus hours in my C almost exclusively took some habit breaking. it’s fast, more efficient than the Mooney, and is aerobatic. I have the long tips with fuel so it’s also an excellent cross country machine.

I sold my Mooney and bought a Glasair iii. The freedom of being able to legally work on your own airplane and the avionics and technology available in the experimental world made it a no brainer.

If you didn’t replace the hoses or fittings in the system this sounds pretty normal. if you already have the airplane apart for avionics, redoing at least the static system is no big deal. any fittings that were touched should have not been reused.

I think he must have had unapproved down lock blocks.

Like elevator weights and up/down lock blocks?

You could try to go the owner produced part route but there may be some jag offs with no alternative options that have a problem with it.

So the Mooney is fast and efficient it the Bonanza is reliable and comfortable. one of these companies still makes airplanes. The other doesn’t.

If you’re looking for an excuse to buy 90 degree power wrenches I say just buy them. On one side they will not be very helpful on this airplane. On the other, you will have 90degree power wrenches.

Sounds like they already fixed it and light sport/experimental can download it. just needs to go through approval for certified.

Asks for a shop near Ohio or east coast, gets suggestions to go to texas… I’m sure there’s a quality shop that can do it closer than that.

I don’t like this topic and I think it should be locked and deleted. It’s my opinion nobody should be talking about this therefore nobody should be talking about this.

Lasar did not make the part in my 67C

It’s not a lot of liability for someone to ask a shop capable of making a part for them to make a part for them. manufacturing and producing are different things. it’s not against the regs to have someone manufacture a part you produced all the data for based on an existing part.

The first page of the document says a lot

It’s not the company you’re looking at. That’s how.

What Eric said. If 15 people with identical part numbers do the work to measure and recreate a part, those 15 people should come out with identical parts. When 15 people all need the same identical part and as a group work together to recreate that part, it’s still an owner produced part. when the owner produced part requires a process like cnc, it makes sense for those owners to band together and use the same machinist to lower costs. Either that or you had better also ground all those airplanes with those Lasar 6pack replacement panels also being sold as owner produced parts at a hefty profit as well.

Trying to test the limits of the owner produced up/down lock blocks.