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Sullux

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  1. Yeah, I think this one here is pretty much exactly what I'm looking for. It's the right age, low STOH, disk shocks newly replaced, factory TKS FIKI, and right in my price range. I'm based in Seattle, so FIKI is important for me. I'm leaning towards naturally aspirated. I had thought for a while about a 231, but much of my flying is going to be with passengers, and they are not interested in wrangling O2. With most of my time spent below fl120, the naturally-aspirated R seems like a better choice than the K. A little more up-front cost with lower per-mile costs and slightly better performance for the specific mission. Unfortunately, I'm stuck treading water for the moment. I need to sell my condo in VT before I buy the plane. Well, I don't need to, but I should. Fiscal responsibility and all that. But my renters got blindsided by this pandemic as much as the rest of us did, so they changed their plans and didn't move out as they had originally planned. And I'm sure not going to kick them out right now because I refuse to be that person. They still pay rent, so while I'm frustrated with the whole thing, I'm one of the lucky ones. That said, I really do not want to put this off til next year, so I'm thinking about just taking the risk and financing some of the purchase price. So I figured I'd start poking around for a CFI while I'm figuring out the rest of it, and here we are. Thanks for that link! Nice to get a trusted name. I'll get in touch with Jimmy as soon as I've made my financial decisions.
  2. @carusoam Thanks for the perspective. Yes, learning for me works differently than for most people. It's been that way my whole life. I have different superpowers and different kryptonite than the average person, so I can skip ahead in some ways and need to take it really slowly in other ways. I'll take your perspective to heart and be prepared for some inevitable inefficiencies. Regarding what took so long and why now, mostly just life arc. I'd have been all in on a career in aviation from day one if I could have been. It's the only thing I've ever wanted. There's a picture of me in a newspaper article when I was 2 years old staring yearningly at a model airplane at the annual model airplane convention in Vermont back in 1978. (Yes, my profile picture is recent and I actually do look a decade younger than I really am for whatever reason.) But instead I ended up as a single parent and spent 18 years raising my daughter on my own. When she was old enough to go off to college I moved from Vermont to Seattle because I wanted to be in a city (there are no cities in Vermont). Also not a lot of opportunities for software engineers in VT. So I moved to Seattle and spent the past 6 years earning better money and saving a lot of it, and I'm now finally in a financial position to start doing what I've been working for my whole life.
  3. No connection to original poster, but I just happened to sign up for this forum today for almost the same reason as Brandon. I'm looking to buy a Mooney soon (leaning towards an Ovation circa ~1995), but will need to find a CFI/CFII. I live right in downtown Seattle, so KBFI is my preferred airport. Based on the above recommendations I'll look to get in touch with Galvin. My case is a little more complicated because I don't have my private pilot certificate yet. My plan is to purchase and have an instructor work with me in my own plane to get my VFR/IFR/performance/complex certs. (No need for warnings about how much airplane I'm stepping into -- I've been flying on and off my whole life and have spent the past few months logging hundreds of simulator hours in the M20R.) Anyway, it was really nice to do a quick search here on MS and instantly find the localized answer to my question without even having to ask. Also really nice to hear that there's such a strong Mooney community in this area! Hope to see you folks in the air soon.
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