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It definitely goes to a fuse. And yes it's safe.

We have two X5s and they’re too big for our 231. Even fitting one is just too big and bulky. Definitely not going through the baggage door.

Out of curiosity what's a fur sewing machine? (as in, what make/model..) I'm actually ordering a machine today (I hope) for something not fur, but just wondering what the differences are.

What do those look like? I don't remember being quizzed on those or finding them on the sectional. Any example?

My iPad overheats so often on takeoff and landing in the AZ summer that I just count on my avionics and a scratch pad, and having an iPad would be nice. It's mounted to the yoke, with a PIVOT case. The case probably exacerbates the situation a bit, and it's always sitting right in the sun. So, essentially the same as @N201MKTurbo

Yep. I've had to do 3 and 4 already. I don't know what 2 is, but 1 scares the s*** out of me. I've heard to get a new actuator, in lieu of gears, it's like $10k?

I guess that makes sense. I don’t need any of the training if I just file IFR?

I've got the audible alarm if gear is up and power is below 18", but this is pretty neat too... Unfortunately, I've ran out of circuit breakers. lol.

Minor correction - prop strike on aborted takeoff. Not near as bad as gear up.

Correct. He was the OP. I know how forums work.

Mine was posted on here and had a super meaningful discussion but for some reason @1980Mooney deleted it, I think. Frustrating since the reason I responded with such detail was so others could learn from the misfortune.

Ignore everyone else. Painting things red makes them faster. Even @201er all but admitted it!!

Jesus.

A little off topic. Where can I see a list of proficiency programs in my area?

Oh. Elaborate, please!

Hope you don't mind @Alexm. I'm at Willmar and couldn't help but try the new camera on this beauty. Edit: Looks like it's gone through *three* owner changes since this post. Jesus.

Anti-glare screen fixes this. Mostly.

I’m actually buying a Juki 9000c-FSH. I guess I could try something similar and not do sheep skin..

The gen2 pencil is great. Though I do hate the magnet. It popped off in pre-flight and I didn’t notice. Fell in the seat rail, and I was wondering why the seat wasn’t locking. Pencils all busted up now. I’ve also gotten a change in route and went to get the pencil and noticed too late that it’s vacated the iPad a few times, so I have to write with my finger which always looks illegible.

The best place to start is to have a good relationship with your mechanic, and ask the questions and note the answers. When I have an annual done, I have my mechanic thoroughly point out any work he wants to do, and why. The "I never work on it" thing is fine, but the "I just fly the plane" thing is probably not. You want to be able to fly the plane and know why certain things are the way they are. I'm nowhere near a mechanic, not even close, so you'd be better off with someone like Rich to help. So take all this with some caution because I'm not much more knowledgeable than you, I'm just starting.. But the steering horn can be seen here on page 109 and here at Lasar. . This is for an M20J but I believe most of the mid/long bodies are pretty similar. I was told parts of the steering horn tend to go bad or get bent after a while but it only affects steering, and was told to not worry about it. That said, I had complained about mine for 3 years before the mechanic finally commented that it was pretty bad. After my mechanic in AZ replaced that, Oasis Aero commented that I need oversized bushings and I believe, from what I saw, that's for the Support Truss Assembly in the diagram at the bottom of this page. I'm told all Mooneys tend to go bad with these parts and they need overhauled in time. Bad landings exacerbate the situation. I'm under no illusion that me buying the plane with 120 hours under my belt, and these two things going bad, are unrelated.

One of the more valuable things you could learn how to do is to create a new flight plan while having the current one still activating it, and then activating that plan when you're ready to go. A good example would be when you can't make the airport due to minimums, you're in the MAP hold, and you get instructions for a new plan. Adding these stops to the current one, IMO, is messy and a lot better to keep the hold activated for that FPL, and create a new one with the stops/waypoints mentioned by the controller. Then activate that when you're ready to go. The 430/530 and 650/750 have this feature.

I should have also taken a video of that, but I've been told by Eric that he needs the oversized bushing from Lasar, so my guess is it's the pivot bushing. I saw the part, I just can't find a diagram to point to what it was. He said he should be able to "patch" it a bit in a week, but the parts on backorder from Lasar and he might be able to get it by next annual (almost a year).

@N201MKTurbo is this what you mean? I've got Eric at Oasis repairing what he can of that next week. He said all Mooneys get bad but mine is 20x as bad as the next. The steering horn was just replaced by a Lasar one, so it's not that. He showed me it's the oversized bushings that are needed. Until then, "kicking the rudder" will fix it?

Sad but true. As long as you can show the 101 basics you'd pass. Even when I bought my plane and it had two 430's, I didn't get much from the ferry pilot either. It's really up to you to make sure you know your avionics, and the risks of going up while not knowing what to do when thrown a curveball. As mentioned before, AZ will overheat my iPad on departure, and has. I didn't want to get flustered and bust a Bravo because I was staring down at the 650 with question marks floating around my head, or have a traffic conflict. Obviously the first thing is to always fly the plane. Something better would be to prevent confusion as best as possible in the first place. I prefer the iPad, for sure -- ForeFlight is amazing. I do what I can on the 650/355/760 for the days when the iPad dies or overheats.

100% agree. I think one of the last flights I did to willmar was IMC the whole way and I was able to research airports, look at diagrams, find and switch frequencies, look at NOTAMS, runway analysis, etc, al on the 650 and G500 (the old one). Felt great, and also felt right. The iPad was just chilling on the next seat.