Matthew P

Thanks, I was originally wanting to go with Dynon but they refuse to do the AP for the older Mooney's so I went with the Garmin GI-275s and the GFC-500...really happy with everything.

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The guy is a scammer, he reaches out to people looking in the For Sale pages and tells you to contact the (owner) at Sweettigger500@gmail.com JUST Beware...tried to hijack a page selling the Dukes Actuator wanted ($260-ish) for it...

Garmin 106B CDI for sale in excellent condition, no haze, scratches or blemishes. Just completed a panel upgrade and no longer have use for it, comes with connector. $1,500.00 Includes shipping to USA only. You will NOT be disappointed.

NOT according to the FAA in regards to Category One Parts.

There are NONE, that's the problem and the whole point of the post

Well, this is geared towards those not doing stupid stuff, that would like to continue flying without a gearset keeping us from doing so...some of your analogies are apples and oranges, Mooney admits that it's nothing more than a parts business at this point, states that it's there to supports it's customers, their largest base of customers are the ones flying aircraft older than the pilots flying them, part manufacturer waiting for Mooney to decide to run a batch, not asking them to resurrect anything that's not readily available, that the manufactures is ready to do....so Mooney, support your existing customers as you state your current and only remaining charter is, or...continue the slow and painful path to insolvency, like others before you.

If Lasar gets them guaranteed a 900-1000% markup like backsprings

I'm talking to the company that bought out Dukes, still waiting to hear back

Same at the 100hr of the gear..100hr grease it, 200hr inspection it

I had a set of new gears scanned, measured and have the CAD files as well as the Rockwell Hardness testing of the gears

Problem is, you find a used actuator and have no idea as to the condition of the gears...

Problem has been finding a willing manufacturer, they will not deal with an individual.

Mr. Pollack states that he's still working the issue, so I gotta believe him, would hope if that's not the case that he'd tell me.....been working the issue with him for 6 months and he hasn't responded to my latest inquiry, but I'm chalking it up to it being the holidays, so I'll reach out again after the new year.....Just standing on his comments (below) that he provided in an interview when he took over...and the fact that the MAJORITY of Mooney customers are the ones flying the older aircraft, and our parts are important too. Pollack reiterated, however, that the biggest message to Mooney owners is to “be patient” because the changes are “going to take a minute.” All of the resources are “literally going to keeping the lights on, and to make sure we have parts availability, and I’m going to fight like the dickens to make it happen.”

I was being sarcastic in reference of getting the parts from them as yo mention the aircraft they are licensed to build do not use the Dukes Actuators, but since I have the CAD drawings and Rockwell Hardness test Results was thinking about sending out the RFQ to Mexico and Chinese Gear Manufactures, would trust Mexico Gear Manufactures before Chinese..

I was just being sarcastic, they only have the rights to the newest of aircraft and therefore would not have access to the parts, but the company was Meijing Group of China

It appears to be Avon Gear and Engineering as I submitted the CAD Files to get an estimate and was told by Joseph Tinaglia (VP) that he already makes those exact gear sets for other customers, but he wouldn't tell me who they are, assume Cessna and Mooney..and when I asked him to forward my info to the "customers" he responded back that they were not interested in talking with me and that the customers would not allow their identities to be released. In regards to your 2nd question, as I understand it, and I could be wrong as it's from a 3rd party, the actuators and gearsets would be assembled at the Kerryville pland during the production process.

Someone with a hell of a lot of money and time, a person that could afford something more than a Mooney aircraft as well which leaves out probably 99% of the individuals that are potentially affected by it...I won't even state my opinion regarding LASAR when it comes to price gouging.

They are Dukes Actuators but Mooney hold the proprietary information for the gear sets and has them made by a 3rd party for use in Dukes actuators in Mooney aircraft.

What gets me is that they are only in the parts business now, so one would think, if there is a demand that exceeds the minimum order to run a batch, that they would do it to get the revenue...business 101, shouldn't matter that it would only be 1-2 runs, they would still make money and $4-6K is better than $0..at least in my house that's the case....but then again, Mooney doesn't have the best record when making financial decisions.....but evidently, even though it would bring some income in, AND TAKE CARE OF IT'S EXISTING CUSTOMERS, that it's not anything they are interested in doing, I even called down asking about a substitute Landing Gear Actuator and guess what the response was..."I've asked the engineers about it but they won't give me an answer, I asked about the Actuators they currently have in stock and warrany and the same individual said he asked the engineers if it would work and was told, well, the newer actuators are 24v"...SO, there are ways to put a 24v actuator in a 12V aircraft...just sound like LAZY engineers to me...the engineers I work with are all about solving problems, what do they need engineers for if they aren't looking for answers, hell, it's not like they are engineering ANYTHING new....

Enough that I've had a request for more than 100 sets from the people that have reached out to me over the last 6 months that I have been working the issue, NOT including the MSCs....If I'm not mistaken, Avionics Products are part of Transdigm which bought out Dukes back in 2009...

Per FAA, in this particular instance, since the part is not COTS replacement, VARMA wouldn't apply for Category 1 parts, which landing gear actuator gears fall under, since the part would be made based off of measurements of an original part and materials based off of the Rockwell Hardness testing, the part(s) would have to go through the same testing and approval process as the original PMA'd parts...there may be an exception if proof can be made to show that the replacement is built to the same or better quality than OEM but in order for that to be be done an original part(s) need to be submitted with the newly submitted part for destructive testing and since I can't get a (new) original part, we can't meet that criteria...and I don't have the 10s of thousands of dollars it would cost to go through the testing and certification process...so that's the issue with VARMA and how it applies to what we are trying to do

The primary goal is to service the fleet,“ Pollack says. “There are folks who bought new aircraft and we’re going to honor our warranty on those airplanes. The service centers aren’t really having trouble getting parts,” he adds. So, if the primary goal is to service it's existing fleet, and there only source of income is manufacturing and selling parts, why is it that they are aware of the need, have the ability, yet refuse to do so? I just don't get it and while I don't have an MBA, what I did glean from my BSBM is that you make more money selling parts that are needed than not making parts that are needed...I could understand if there were only 1-2 individuals needing parts, but when you have more than enough that warrants a production run, makes no monetary sense not to, but it seems as though Mooney's biggest problem has always been financial decision making and listening to it's customer base...atleast from the articles I've read.

Mooney was purchased by a Chinese company, started to build aircraft in China, eventually sold their interest in Mooney yet retained the license to build in China...understood they were losing about $20k per acft

Only applies to electric landing gear aircraft, they don't sell the parts (gears), they (Mooney) could but refuse to run a batch, only option is to buy a used actuator and take your chances that the gears are good in the used one...or, buy all the spare parts and put the manual J-Bar back in.