Mister_Bevilaqua

I've also considered this alternative. I have been considering going to LED's all around. I am not a fan of running strobes at night while taxiing if others are present.

Thanks for all of the replies, looking into adding a beacon at annual.

Consulting with my A&P/IA about this. But if I move forward with that plan, what's the condition, and what do you want for it?

Great idea!

I know most won't want a left-side yoke for the right seat because the PTT would be on the left horn, and the left hand should be used for panel adjustments and throttle/mixture/prop controls. That said, I don't necessarily care about accommodating a right-seat PIC, it's more or less to allow for a right seat to be able to handle comms if necessary. Upgrading to J/201 yokes entails quite a few pricey and hard-to-come-by parts, and the aftermarket Bonanza yokes with adapters are PMA, but the Mooney isn't in the approval listing at the moment.

Would a left-side E model yoke (thin/straight) with the opening for the clock work on the right side as well? I am considering picking up a second left-side yoke for use on the right side since it's pre-drilled for the PTT.

Does anyone offer reproduction placards for the throttle quadrant? The lower placard below the throttle, mixture, and prop levers, and the flap switch placard are in haggard condition, just looking to spruce those up a touch.

In theory, we could host a weekend event centered solely around general/preventative maintenance. Make it a full-on Mooney fly-in event, social hour, meals, etc. We'd just need to get a Mooney specialist A&P/IA on board for teaching the material.

Yea, I have considered adding one at the annual, but I'd have to find the factory beacon switch as well so that I can run it separately from the strobes. I agree that running strobes at night while taxiing is extremely obnoxious.

Hoppes No.9 smells the best, funny enough, I have all three mentioned. TriFlow is preferred on uniball joints.

Sounds awesome, but I doubt it'd ever come together. A boy can dream....

It's wild how much it differs.

Does your Pre-J model M20 have a beacon light? I am surprised by how many I see that simply don't have them, especially when so many of the other makes from the same era do. Learning to fly, it was always stressed that the beacon had to come on before startup and remain on until the engine was off. I realize that the strobes can do the same job in terms of letting others know that the plane is occupied and possibly running, but they aren't ideal in low light or night conditions when on the ground and not departing the field.

I'll have to grab one.

I received the video and watched it three times. Thanks again, Don, for getting that out so quickly, along with the cheat sheet. I am certain both will help me as a new Mooney M20 pilot.

I wish we weren't already busy for the weekend of the Kyle, TX date. Hopefully, this is an annual thing, and we can make it next year?!

Of the two options shown, I'd pick #1 without a doubt.

I regularly fly out of a larger private airport where there are three flight schools, two flying clubs, a helicopter school, a pilot shop, along with multiple A&P's and a prop shop. This is a non-towered airport, and things regularly get a bit wild in the pattern. To make matters worse, they are under a 2000ft Bravo shelf with the Bravo to the floor just 1.5 miles north of the field and a Delta just three miles to the east. This field is busy all day, and the facilities are in poor shape IMHO. Hangars here are full, waitlisted, and bringing anywhere from $450/month on up. The hangar culture abounds, and you can find people busy working on planes or just hanging out any day of the week. The airport near my home is in fantastic shape; it's a city/county airport and has built a new row of t-hangars within the past few years, with more planned on top of the five rows that already existed. They recently upgraded to all LED's and retopped the runway and taxiways, and have a very nice little FBO. There's zero hangar culture, most tenants rarely fly their planes or even show up regularly, and you're lucky if you catch someone in the pattern every few hours on a bluebird day. Hangars are readily available and at half the cost of the aforementioned airport. It's a nice sleepy little airport, and it always likely will be. It all depends on your location and the culture of that particular airport. If you visited a lot of the smaller airports here in Texas, you'd be hard pressed not to assume that GA is dying hard and fast. I think there's a positive future for GA, but I foresee a lot of it being centered around experimental aircraft as the aging certified fleets quickly wither away and those remaining continue to get more expensive and much harder to keep in the air.

This is true, but I imagine that will be fixed in a future update.

I'll purchase one. I just have to find a DVD player to watch it on now lol. ***Funds sent!!!***

What do you mount to the ball on the side of your headset?

I have been using FF and I am happy with it overall, but I was recently gifted a free year of GP. I plan to start playing with it here in the coming months to compare the two. I am not sure if I'll run both moving forward, but I am hoping to find one as the clear winner in my book by the end of the year. I've heard a lot of great things about GP in the recent months, so it gives me hope that it might replace FF as my new EFB.

What does Lasar sell that's actually in stock or still available? 80% of their items are OOS or show as no longer available. I'm not sure why you'd bother to list products that you no longer sell.

What is their asking price per unit if you order 10?

Good stuff! I stopped by their shop and met them today on my way to Bastrop. They seem like standup people, and I'd be happy to let them do my annuals going forward. It seemed like they were getting covered up with work on other makes at the moment due to other shops closing their doors, retiring, etc. I kind of got a touch nervous about the purchase of a "vintage" Mooney after chatting with him about the parts that are pretty much unobtanium these days.