1980Mooney

I wonder what percentage of IFR flights by GA aircraft are made every day with expired Pitot/Static Transponder ADSB certification - either knowingly or unknowingly because they haven't reviewed their maintenance logs? I bet it is more than 5% - maybe my estimate is low. And I wonder what percentage of VFR only pilots that own planes never think much about the 24 month transponder certification. I would be willing to bet that lots of those planes go 3-4-5 years without a Pitot/Static certification. And I bet that they fly into Class B and Class C airspace with high frequency. Like much of aviation these endless rules only serve to keep the honest (and the knowing), honest.

When you say "it won't help much if the engine failure involves oil splattering the windscreen." do you mean it doesn't help much in the event that you only have a GTN750xi or GTN650xi without a GFC500 autopilot? If you have a GFC500 it will fly you to within 2 miles of the airport. At that point you disengage the GFC500 and you can fly the magenta line on moving map and maintain control with the AH augmented by vision out the side windows. You may also have Synthetic Vision on your pad. When it comes to landing and touchdown you just have to do it like Lindbergh.... And if you don't have a GFC500, isn't an obstructed windscreen similar to flying IFR? Assuming you are IFR rated you can still fly by the instruments plus you have visibility out the side windows. Still seems like it would help a lot. What am I missing?

The Missile conversion also has a full feathering prop.

You will find that your urologist advises the same procedure - catch your sample “midstream”….also known as the “clean catch method”. Age has its benefits…

The OP bought the GTN directly from "Joe Blow" "Purchased GTN650xi directly from the manager" The OP did not buy the GTN directly from Garmin The OP did not buy the GTN from an Authorized Garmin Dealer There is no sales receipt from Garmin or the Authorized Garmin Dealer If there is any sales record it will be: A $10K check to the personal account of "Joe Blow" A $10K Venmo or Zelle transfer to the personal account of "Joe Blow" Alternatively it may have just been a bag of cash..... And no one has mentioned "Where is and who paid the sales tax due to the State and City"? AOPA notes that there is a 4% State and 1-4% Local tax on the sale of Aviation Products in Georgia The State of Georgia and Local City have been defrauded out of $500-800 The more this “Discount Scheme” is discussed the worse it looks for the OP. Unwitting or intentional it puts the OP in a bad light and raises the question that the OP could be part of the scheme - taking it to court could bring all this to the attention of a Judge raising the question of not only highlighting the crime of the Service Manager but also the intention and possible participation of the OP. - and could result in 2 charges Georgia Code §16-8-7(a) - Theft by receiving stolen property Failure to pay taxes

I contemplated this about 23 years ago on my J. The engine runs higher compression pistons. - 10 to 1. Maybe with the new GAMI G100UL it will be safe to boost compression on all engines but at the time I was concerned about detonation on 100LL.. As a result I went with the Missile 300 HP conversion. From the sales brochure: The H.P. increase is accomplished by the installation of Lycoming built pistons for the 360 engine that raise the compression ratio from the stock 8.7:1, to 10.0:1.

There is no appearance of double dipping by the shop. There is no indication that the shop failed to tell the insurance company that the OP paid the MSC in full. Why even intimate that “. If the shop took money from the insurance for that claim and has NOW taken money from the OP, as well, it would seem the shop is flirting with insurance fraud: ”

This discussion is getting loony. I don’t understand why otherwise logical people are automatically leaping to the conclusion that the shop received an insurance reimbursement for the GTN and at the same time was paid the full price for the GTN by the OP. It has been clearly stated that the insurance company was involved to try to recover the stolen goods for return to the MSC. Logically if they could not recover the stolen goods, they would seek on behalf the MSC to recover, monies equal to the cost of the goods (ie get the plane owners to pay the MSC) which is what the OP paid to the MSC. Additionally, this “OP paid for the GTN twice“ statement has no relevance. The OP paid the MSC once for the GTN. He unfortunately also paid 80% of that amount (after getting the phantom 20% discount) to the personal account of an individual who just happened to be the Avionics manager. The theft and deceptive sale was by and with the avionics manager.

I think the car guys would refer to that as “RestoMod”.

That is a valid point - it is like a captain making the decision to dump valuable cargo overboard as his ship takes on water while trying to make it back to safe harbor. Now in the case of SV Bank, most of the depositors benefited beyond what their accounts were insured for - 85% uninsured. This bank had massive holdings making it the second largest failure in history. I don't know what percentage of insured vs uninsured deposits should be but I don't think it should be 85% uninsured. Somehow their management was rewarded for mismanagement. It does not address how this bank or Signature (lured into the even less regulated murky Crypto currency) was able or allowed to get into such a mess. And if such a large bank can get into such a weak position that a single Tweet by Peter Theil can cause a run and insolvency, then there needs to be more regulation and oversight. There doesn't seem to be a lot of accountability or consequences to the ones that made the decisions and profited from them - time will tell.

In addition to @ZuluZulu s suggestions there is also some merit in @JayMatts. If the shop owner is talking to you then there is a chance he may work with you to square things in the future - maybe comp some work. As said you and he are both victims of the ex-shop manager. If you go to court then there will be bad blood between you and the shop forever. And I don't see much that Garmin can do other than take your GTN650xi off of the "stolen list" and reinstate your warranty. WIsh you better luck in the future

I think the insurance claim was for the GTN650xi that was on the asset ledger for the MSC - which the mgr stole and sold to the OP. - Has nothing to do with service. If you go to court I suspect the first thing the judge will ask the OP is "if you were honest why did you think you could buy that Garmin box for 20% less than the MSC was selling it for and 20% less than everyone else has to pay for the same thing at the MSC where you had it installed?" As others have said this will be very uncomfortable for the OP. And if the MSC recovers any loses from 3rd parties like the OP (the OP said he paid the shop directly and not to the insurance co.) then it is the Insurance company that has a right to claw back settlements they made with/paid to the shop - The OP has no claim or right with the insurance company settlement - as they say "follow the money" - the settlement is only between the MSC and their insurance company.

Just curious since the OP is looking for a precut kit: Are the cowl dimensions, clearances and baffling arraignment on the OP’s Mod Works Trophy 262 conversion exactly the same as a 252?…or just close to the same?

Isn't this analogous to you insuring your Acclaim for $70K? (about 15% of market value - reports say only 15% of deposits at SV Bank were insured). And then, in the event that a tornado hits Gillespie County Airport, destroying all the planes including yours, the insurance companies say "Out of the goodness of our hearts we will pay the market replacement value for every plane destroyed even if it is above the insured value. - even though you knew that we said that we would only cover insured value, even though you were too lazy or cheap to have it fully insured". How does this change anyone's behavior if they know the government is going to bail them out and make them whole every time? I suppose the message has to be "OK we will bail you out this time but this is the last time we are going to ever do it again".... Yeah - right. This is like all those aging rock band "Farewell Tours" - "absolutely the last time...".....UNTIL THE NEXT TIME ‘Farewell’ Tours That Didn’t Stick — From Cream to Motley Crue – Rolling Stone I am not sure what we learned from the S&L '80's or 2008.

Another reason to be worried: Look at the graph. Look at the magnitude of this is a single failure vs the 25 in 2008. And this graph doesn't even include the Signiture Bank failure. (which, with $118 billion, is the 3rd largest bank failure in history - SV Bank was the 2nd largest bank failure in history). SV and Signiture combined is $327 billion - that is already 88% of the total of 2008 - and only 2 banks involved.

You are right that this is a crappy situation all the way around for an enthusiastic new owner. And you are exactly right in your assessment. Although some here suggest that the employee is an agent of the shop and the shop legally at fault, Georgia laws make it harder for the victim to prove because He bought the GTN650xi from the Manager directly - no transaction with the Shop Georgia "In possession of stolen property" laws, which makes it a crime to buy stolen property, intentionally puts more burden on the victim to prove that they were an "unwitting" accomplice. Yes with enough time and money spent on lawyers the victim might win a "deceptive sale" case against the former Shop Manager (and not the shop). But he will likely spend $15k+ to win a $15k settlement - which the former Shop Manager likely will not be able to pay. Money spent on lawyers is usually money down the rat hole. Unfortunately, like @LANCECASPER and @MikeOH highlight, this is a difficult "life lesson" which we could all have fallen victim to early as we first grappled with the cost of maintaining/upgrading our first plane. Also as @ArtVandelay says a good reason to avoid doing business in Georgia, both for the crappy MSC and the crappy Georgia anti-consumer protection laws.

In your first post you said you were dealing with "the manager of avionics at this Garmin certified avionics shop". Here you say "the head of maintenance "Intentionally sabotaged my ignition" - that would Airframe and Engine maintenance. Are you saying this is the same person? - some one that is over all maintenance both Avionics and A&E? Or are these 2 different people at the same Mooney Service Center?

Excellent point. At some point the amount of "uninsured" claims that are being honored as if they were "insured" could overwhelm the FDIC. At that point, the Federal Government (the Treasury) will have to take over all the losses. And then it will directly become a burden which taxpayers must bear. Either taxes will need to be raised (direct burden paid by everyone) or money will just printed (created) leading to inflation and devaluation of the US dollar (indirect burden paid by everyone due to loss of value in everything). Yes there should be worry by those that concentrate funds beyond $250K into one account. Even though less efficient they should spread their funds to more accounts in more institutions.

Here’s another fact. The sale of shares by CEO, Greg Becker, was part of a preplanned (10B5-1 Plan) sale. It was executed on January 26, 2023. On that date, it set the number of shares, the price and the date of sale in the future. The sale was on “auto pilot“ at that point and out of his hands. 10B5–1 plans are like Executive belly buttons – every Executive has one. They are supposed to enable the executive to sell stock (or flip options) on an equal/fair basis with other shareholders. However every executive in any company (large/small, healthy/distressed, good/bad) possesses some degree of “inside information” which the public does not have. If you were to bail out of every company in which the CEO sold stock in a 10B5-1 transaction, you would not own any stock at all. The CEO can always make a superior return. It is not always triggered by bad news – sometimes it’s triggered by good news. Sometimes the CEO will set the sale date right after the announcement of earnings that exceed analysts expectations (which the CEO had an indication was coming) Is it unfair?…a sham? Yes.

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Lots of prior discussions on this.

That doesn't always work. I recall people in Houston buying Enron when it was on the way down saying those same things. Memories are selective...

Yes they were. They were trying to manage through it. And it was Peter Thiel's Tweet that caused the bank run. It was the electronic version of yelling "Fire" at busy leaky gas station - and then tossing a lit cigarette as he drives off with a few of his "buddies" ....

Signiture Bank, the other bank taken over and bailed out this weekend, was brought down by their more recent decision and push to attract Crypto currency deposits. Crypto is the biggest black box in the world. It needs more regulation not less - yet you have people like Ted Cruz arguing that crupto should be less regulated. Thankfully Cruz is not on the Senate banking committee.

If you read the release it says: A second bank was shut down by the Treasury and Fed - Signature Bank, New York It makes it sound like the state shut it down but it was ordered by the Treasury and Fed - they ordered the "state chartering authority" to shut it down The press release makes it sound like there is no cost to "taxpayers" - That's BS The FDIC is self- insured requiring banks to keep cash/funds idle in a reserve fund (they can't lend it and make money from it - it is dead weight for the bank). - it is cash/fund equal to approx 1.35% of "insured" funds (also depends upon size and risk of bank) And yes the FDIC is backed up by the Treasury if there is a massive run on many banks that overwhelms the reserve fund. The Fed and Treasury are forcing the FDIC to take funds from the "reserve" and make Both insured and UNINSURED depositors whole. Making Uninsured depositors whole is not what they are set up or capitalized to do. All the remaining banks will now need to contribute additional funds to the idle reserve accounts Every remaining bank will have higher costs which they will pass on to depositors and borrowers - individuals and businesses. Small banks are already complaining about the added costs. Ultimately we pay for it with increased financing costs and higher costs in goods/services due to businesses higher banking costs. SV Bank was the second largest US bank failure in history. It was brought down by a tweet by Peter Theil which caused a run on the bank. Admittedly the bank was weak but that is all it took.