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Funny. I did my PP in an AA-5B Tiger.

Funny. I did my PP in an AA-5B Tiger.

Thanks.

That is pretty much true for most chemicals. Only thing to watch is that some do not take well to being frozen, so just a fridge for them.

I have never heard of a slaved DG slaving to the mag compass.

Hmm, we have several Cirrus's in T-hangars at my field. $1,000,000 airplane with 15% down is $6200 to $8200 per month according to AOPA calculator. So $74K to $98K. Flying 100 hours per year, would be around 1500 gallons of fuel, so around $9000. Even with insurance at $20,000, that is still a good bit less than $200K. And that $200K gets you 25 hours. Yes, the jet is faster, but by the time you factor ground time and such, not 4 times faster block to block. And you are limited in the fields you can operate off. But interestly, the lower end charter market seems to be going Vision Jet. Single pilot, and can operate out of smaller fields.

But not equal to the ones on the market at the time.

I agree that some of them are on this path. But there are a large number of older folks that always wanted to fly, but kids and college and work interfered. And now they are at a point where they have the time and money.

Heck, my military IFR flying was a single nav. In the A-10 we did have multiple comms. No ADF, no GPS, no INS, no autopilot. We did have a mini back ADI.

Investment Tax Credit. They were leveraging that tax credit. Plus, what were 40 year old aircraft back then? Cubs, Taylor Crafts, the odd Beech Staggerwing. There just WEREN'T old airplanes.

IMO, that is the BIG thing. Unless your instructor has time INSTRUCTING in a Mooney, they would not be the best choice. If here is not a well qualified MOONEY experienced instructor available, finish your training in the Warrior and then spend time with a Mooney instructor. Otherwise, I would do it in the Mooney.

Not saying it was liquid. But a house and nearing retirement with a 401, a million is not that much.

A few things. 1) If there are no small piston aircraft, where are the pilots for all those turbine aircraft coming from? Other than military trained, every pilot of a PC-12, Lear, Gulfstream, A320, 777 started in light piston singles. 2) I saw a post on BT that there are 22 MILLION millionaires in the US. That is a pretty large market. 3) As I mentioned in another post, my local FBO has 3x 172 and about 5 instructors and is adding another 172. They built 3 rows of brand new T-hangars about 3 years ago, and are about to break ground for another row, and designed the layout to add 2 more after that. 4) BMW started the high end delivery model over 20 years ago. Making it special, reinforcing that you are buying a high end vehicle.

Hmm, my local flight school is adding a plane and instructors to keep with the number of students. Doesn't sound like no one can afford to fly. And in the late 70s through the early 90s, there was 1 - 2 planes and 1 - 2 instructors. One of the really big things that killed GA aircraft sales was the removal of the Investment Tax Credit. That was a 10% tax CREDIT on a business purchase. So buy $100,000 airplane, get a tax CREDIT of $10,000. Also changes in Sub S corp rules that meant there had to be the possibility of a profit and showing a profit every so many years.

Long term, about the same price, assuming your 750 can be sold for near what you paid for it.

I HIGHLY recommend doing it the other way around. Disconnect antenna and then transmit on the HANDHELD and see which one receives. Or just listen on a busy frequency. Radios do NOT like being keyed on with no antenna.

Somewhere recently is a video of an RV on takeoff that hits a deer. Not a nice sound

Xi has faster processor and higher resolution screen. They start up faster and rewrite the screen faster. They store all the database info internally due to greater memory. Non-Xi are older products, the Xi is only a couple of years old. The nice thing is, if you put in a non-Xi now, swapping to the Xi later is about 20 minute job. Last fall I had Sarasota swap in a 650Xi for my 650. I felt that long term it was a good idea. And, at the time, the market for non-Xi was pretty good, so the swap was not outrageous. And they handled dealing with my old unit. I just paid the difference.

I would like a shark fin one, but it is $1600, versus $600 for the round one. Crazy

Another recommendation for Byron. He arranged and remote supervised my prebuy (couldn't get it to him). He also did the first annual, with no surprises. He also consulted on picking the plane to make an offer on. He found issues in the logs of several before we found the ONE.

Mooney Flyer online magazine has a page of Mooney instructors. I found my transition instructor from that list. https://themooneyflyer.com/cfi.html

So, fly solo, give yourself the dual and sign your own log book. I actually had a situation that a regulation was passed that I needed certain training and certification to do a task. Based on the same regulation, due to my professional certification, I could teach the class and certify people. I called, mainly to see why I needed to take the class if I could give the class. After a run around, I asked the person if I could give myself the class and sign my own certificate, and they said, Yes, you can do that.

Pictures and measurements would be appreciated.

There ARE good shops and companies. Our own Byron (JetDriven) is one. My local FBO is another, but not Mooney centric.

That's impressive. My 2552/Encore does 174 KTAS in the mid teens on 10.3 GPH. But I am up higher so get a nice TAS boost.