Greg Ellis

Mike Busch does recommend the Vividia. But if you go that route make sure you get the one with the highest resolution. There are probably a few of the low resolution ones still floating around. The high res ones give a great image.

If any of you are going to Oshkosh this year, Dave Pasquale, the king of the borescope, and works with Savvy, is putting on 2 hands on borescope classes as well as another talk on the borescope and analyzing images. Just FYI.

Their website says they are not taking on any more work until their backlog of over 50 units are finished. Busy place like everyone else.

I just saw a news story that Hartzell got STC approval for its new Outlaw prop for the Mooney M20 series. It was a pretty vague news story but is this new news or old news?

As has been mentioned, make sure you have all the parts for the Doghouse. I can see that you do not have the inter cylinder baffles as @@N201MKTurbo has mentioned. They are quite important for proper cooling. If you had them we would see the the hook that hooks from the top of the cylinders down through to the underneath side where the baffle is. Also, make sure you have the connecting tie rod along the bottom. It holds a front piece of the baffling to a rear piece of the baffling and keeps them tight around the cylinders. It is amazing what a difference it makes in cooling just to have those tight around the cylinders.

Beverly plane crash leaves 1 dead, 1 injured – NBC Boston

Accident Mooney M20F N9573M, Thursday 19 June 2025

@Echo your Ferrari is gorgeous!!!

And to add, the STAR, DP's, and profile view of approach charts are all Geo-referenced so your flight tracks on those charts.

I have spent my morning in between patients checking this out since I updated my GP to the latest version. It is pretty cool. It follows a good flow pattern for IFR work and it does remove a lot of the clutter when selecting a specific STAR or DP or approach procedure. I think it will work out quite well. But like everything it will take some getting used to but I think it is a good update. The Youtube videos are helpful getting started as well.

My C model has never had them in the 20 years I have owned it. I looked in the maintenance manual and parts manual and cannot find anything that references the need for washers. The image that @N201MKTurbo posted, what model Mooney is that for? I found references to the spinner in the parts catalog for my airplane but no reference to the use of washers under the spinner screws.

I think it is however you want it to be but for me it is any state that I have landed my Mooney in.

I have used both a MacBook and a desktop PC to update the cards for my 530W and my GNC355. The GNC355 uses an SD card and there never seems to be a problem updating that card. However, I had heard about the Mac causing issues with the card for the 530 (although it is the only platform that updates the card with no issue so far) so I switched to just trying to update it with the desktop PC. I did not want to buy another card for the 530W. The issue is that the Garmin software for the desktop seems unstable. Every time they do an update to it, I cringe. It seems that after every update the card will not update and I have to call Garmin to reset everything. The last time they could not get it to work and had me uninstall and re-install the Garmin software. This was right after a software update. It has always been quite unstable for me and I just expect to have to call them every time I do an update. No one at Garmin can give me a reason why.

I received mine as well.

I think you are referring to @Gee Bee Aeroproducts, not @GeeBee

I wonder if the same rules apply in Canada that apply here. Can he do an owner produced part up there. I don't know. But it would be a great way to get it done I think.

There are quite a few salvage yards that may have something that you can use. Air Salvage of Dallas (www.asod.com) and Texas Aircraft Salvage (Texasairsalvage.com) come to mind. I know they are far from you but they may have something that they can ship to you.

@christaylor302 ^^^^^^^^^ see above

I have a 63 C model. It came without any PC system, wing leveler, or anything. I have owned this airplane for 17 or 18 years now. For about 14 years I hand flew (no autopilot) IFR sometimes to minimums. The airplane is very stable without an autopilot if well rigged and trimmed well. I now have a Garmin GFC 500 and love it but the plane did very well without any autopilot.

Looks fantastic!!!! And as an Aggie, I love the color choice.

You may have said but why were you getting a "new" engine? You are well within the maximum allowable oil usage on a Lycoming (they have a formula to calculate this; 0.006 X BHP X 4 / 7.4 = qt/hr). You also say your compressions and borescope are good. Are you replacing just because of it being at 2000 hours? This sounds like it is still a healthy engine and there are no requirements as we know to overhaul due to meeting 2000 hours.

You are a test pilot for every crosswind landing in your airplane....

I could not find it in the POH for my 63 C model but it is in the AFM on page 4 that is specific to my airplane. "Landings when 90 degree crosswind component is more than 17 mph not recommended."

Nice pic of your plane but I want to see more pics of the Vette!!!!

1963 C model 1,000,000 liability $82K hull $1473/yr 2100TT, 1790 in this Mooney, Comm, SEL, MEL, IR