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We will be there. Flying one of the birds to Juneau and then staying in OSH with friends. I do have contact information for a GREAT room in a private home. We stayed there two years in a row. Breakfast included plus ride to and from AV. Our room with private bath was $100 per night. Hope we can all meet up some how.

Here is my latest article for AOPA Pilot online: http://www.aopa.org/flightplanning/articles/2013/130425the-show-must-go-on.html Hopefully we can all get our aircraft out of the hanger and support our fun events at airports.

Glad you had fun at Oceano, Brett. We also do have bicycles for loan so you could head out and explore the coast and restaurants that are a bit further out. Hope you will come back for Celebration May 10-11!!

Getting so excited about Oceano Airport Celebration. All are welcome! Come dance to the San Luis Jazz Band on May 10th, 5:30 p.m. $10. Celebration Day is May 11th. We are collecting items for military care packages. Everyone come on!

Here is April, May and June! No need to leave your Mooney in the hangar. Join the Mooney Ambassadors for some fun happenings: April 27th, 2013, KERV, Kerrville, Texas Airport Day! This is an event put on by the Kerrville Visitor's and Convention Bureau to help promote the airport. That is just our cup of tea for a Mooney Ambassador. Come for the Day or stay the weekend! MAPA will be there and many of your Mooney friends.Bar-B-Que Lunch hosted by Joe Kennedy of Kerrville Aviation. Under Wing Camping allowed. Free Transportation to Hotels Available.Registration on the Kerrville Convention & Visitors Bureau website: www.KerrvilleTexasCVB.com Lodging Information 1-800-221-7958 KERV: Home of Mooney Airplane Company! Point Person: Bucko Strehlow May 10-11, 2013 L52 Oceano Airport Celebration Beach Burger Fry and Dance Friday May 10th: Beach Burger Fry and Dance Come and join us at Oceano Airport for a Burger Fry and dance to the San Luis Jazz Band. Stay the night camping at the airport, or enjoying one of our local hotels. Pacific Plaza Resort is offering a $65 King suite which sleeps 4. [PacificPlazaResort.com for more.] $10 for hayrides, dinner and dance. 5:30-9:30 p.m. Saturday May 11th: Oceano Airport Celebration Day 2013. A Salute to Veterans. 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Free admission. Fuel discount. Lions Club pancake breakfast, static displays, emergency responder displays. 12:00 opening ceremonies and veterans recognition 12:30 Lunch served by the EAA Weanie Wagon and Oceano Elks Lodge. Live big band music: Central City Swing Band. 2:00: raffle. Free Children's activities. Family fun. We are collecting care package items for our soldiers who are serving in foreign countries. Please bring: DVDs, black socks, baby wipes, beef jerky, toiletries or hard candies to donate. Point Person: Mitch Latting. May 11, 2013 Hayward, CA KHWD is holding their airport day open house on coincident with the presence of the EAA B-17 "Aluminum Overcast". The open house focus is introducing aviation to the next generation of aviators. Flyers will go out to all of the area elementary, middle, and high schools. It worked really well last year and I expect it will again. We are extending an invitation to the Mooney Ambassadors to participate. The airport administration is talking to the on-field fuel seller about a discounted rate. We are also looking into providing a meal-ticket (lunch) for those who participate. Point Person: Claude Goldsmith June 7, 2013 Wings to Walla Walla. KAWL. This is a fun annual event. Wine tasting, aircraft displays. Here is the website for more information http://www.wingstowallawalla.com/. Point Person: Fred Juhos. June 15-16th Father's Day Fly-In, Columbia California, O22. Columbia is a quaint gold-mining town in the foothills of the Sierras. The Father's Day Fly-In just can't be beat. There is an aircraft only campground complete with hot showers and electricity near the grass runway. Boy Scouts provide a great pancake breakfast in the campground. Free shuttles across the runways. Static displays, emergency responder demonstrations. Flour Bombing and Spot Landing contests. {Mooney pilots have a long history of winning these!} The Mooney Ambasadors are one of the only service groups with two or three display airplanes. Last year, we had 100 degrees and the Moo-Pool was a big hit. Come join the fun. Point Person: Jolie Lucas June 22-23, 2013, Mooney Maintenance Seminar with Jerry Manthey, ArtCraft Paint, Santa Maria, CA: Master Mechanic and Mooney Legend, Jerry Manthey $199.00 per person includes the seminar, Jerry's maintenance manual,and lunch. Come learn from the best. ArtCraft Paint, our host, will offer a presentation on Mooney painting and will raffle a free detail.Not a member of MAPA? You should be! $243.50 is the non-MAPA price and includes a year membership. We must have 30 students signed up and paid by May 22nd or the class will be cancelled. For registration: http://mooneypilots.com/ Should be a great weekend on the Central Coast of California. We are so pleased that Jerry offered to do this for us. Celebration 2013 poster.pdf

congratulations on your new ticket, and your new Mooney. The hours of dual spent with your CFI are a great investment. I transitioned from a Warrior to an E model. They are great airplanes. Have fun fun fun

I sent Jerry and email and haven't heard back. I will give him a call. His 81st birthday was yesterday!

Just giving this fun seminar a little bump. The weather should be great in Central California in June. ArtCraft Paint will be giving away a wash/detail worth $350!

I am sticking with my observation that as a whole, our decision-making must be stellar. Every time we have to think this could be the last time. The take away here isn't that we are soothing our tattering egos because we lost someone, or tyring to be "holier than thou". We have all done stupid shit, that is for sure. The take away here is be gracious, let yourself be a learner instead of always being the guru. Take a moment and think of those who are left behind. Geez, maybe you all just have compassion fatique.

Well here is my two cents, so feel free to blast away. First, my thoughts and prayers are with Mr. Verhalen Sr. He lost his son, his daughter and his grand-daughter. Secondly we are only as safe as our last decision. So we need to make sure our last decision is our best decision. We have tragically lost several from MooneySpace, in what appears to be a kink in the decision-making process. I am not going to speculate, but John was a second-generation Mooney pilot, and he worked for Mooney. So I really wouldn't feel comfortable calling him an amatuer. What matters, for us all, is that our last decision is the best decision we have ever made in the air, or before we head out in the airplane. I hope we all can learn from these tragedies and be safer pilots. God Speed John. You will be missed.

Please mark your calendars and join the Mooney Ambassadors for a fun day of displaying, inspiring the love of flight and supporting our Mooney Airplane Company. If you would like to register for an event just follow this link: http://mooneyambassadors.com/news-and-events.html April 27th, 2013, KERV, Kerrville, Texas Airport Day! This is an event put on by the Kerrville Visitor's and Convention Bureau to help promote the airport. That is just our cup of tea for a Mooney Ambassador. Come for the Day or stay the weekend! MAPA will be there and many of your Mooney friends.Bar-B-Que Lunch hosted by Joe Kennedy of Kerrville Aviation. Under Wing Camping allowed. Free Transportation to Hotels Available.Registration on the Kerrville Convention & Visitors Bureau website: www.KerrvilleTexasCVB.com Lodging Information 1-800-221-7958 KERV: Home of Mooney Airplane Company! Point Person: Bucko Strehlow May 10-11, 2013 L52 Oceano Airport Celebration Beach Burger Fry and Dance Friday May 11th: Beach Burger Fry and Dance Come and join us at Oceano Airport for a Burger Fry and dance to the San Luis Jazz Band. Stay the night camping at the airport, or enjoying one of our local hotels. Pacific Plaza Resort is offering a $65 King suite which sleeps 4. [PacificPlazaResort.com for more.] $10 for hayrides, dinner and dance. 5:30-9:30 p.m. Saturday May 12th: Oceano Airport Celebration Day 2013. A Salute to Veterans. 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Free admission. Fuel discount. Lions Club pancake breakfast, static displays, emergency responder displays. 12:00 opening ceremonies and veterans recognition 12:30 Lunch served by the EAA Weanie Wagon and Oceano Elks Lodge. Live big band music: Central City Swing Band. 2:00: raffle. Free Children's activities. Family fun. We are collecting care package items for our soldiers who are serving in foreign countries. Please bring: DVDs, black socks, baby wipes, beef jerky, toiletries or hard candies to donate. Point Person: Mitch Latting. May 11, 2013 Hayward, CA KHWD is holding their airport day open house on coincident with the presence of the EAA B-17 "Aluminum Overcast". The open house focus is introducing aviation to the next generation of aviators. Flyers will go out to all of the area elementary, middle, and high schools. It worked really well last year and I expect it will again. We are extending an invitation to the Mooney Ambassadors to participate. The airport administration is talking to the on-field fuel seller about a discounted rate. We are also looking into providing a meal-ticket (lunch) for those who participate. Point Person: Claude Goldsmith June 7, 2013 Wings to Walla Walla. KAWL. This is a fun annual event. Wine tasting, aircraft displays. Here is the website for more information http://www.wingstowallawalla.com/. Point Person: Fred Juhos. June 15-16, 2013 Indianapolis Air Show. Details to follow on our third appearance at the Indy Airshow. This show draws up to 150,000 attendees. June 22-23, 2013, Mooney Maintenance Seminar with Jerry Manthey, ArtCraft Paint, Santa Maria, CA: Master Mechanic and Mooney Legend, Jerry Manthey $199.00 per person includes the seminar, Jerry's maintenance manual,and lunch. Come learn from the best. ArtCraft Paint, our host, will offer a presentation on Mooney painting and will raffle a free detail.Not a member of MAPA? You should be! $243.50 is the non-MAPA price and includes a year membership. We must have 30 students signed up and paid by May 22nd or the class will be cancelled. For registration: http://mooneypilots.com/ Should be a great weekend on the Central Coast of California. We are so pleased that Jerry offered to do this for us. July 13-14th Father's Day Fly-In, Columbia California, O22. Columbia is a quaint gold-mining town in the foothills of the Sierras. The Father's Day Fly-In just can't be beat. There is an aircraft only campground complete with hot showers and electricity near the grass runway. Boy Scouts provide a great pancake breakfast in the campground. Free shuttles across the runways. Static displays, emergency responder demonstrations. Flour Bombing and Spot Landing contests. {Mooney pilots have a long history of winning these!} The Mooney Ambasadors are one of the only service groups with two or three display airplanes. Last year, we had 100 degrees and the Moo-Pool was a big hit. Come join the fun. Point Person: Jolie Lucas August 24-26th, 2012 KTVL South Lake Tahoe, Lake in the Sky Airshow Join us at Lake Tahoe in 2013 for the 24th year celebration of America's High Altitude Air Show. The Mooney Ambassadors are the only type club that has specifically been invited by the event administration for the past several years. We had 22 airplanes in 2009, 14 in 2010, 24 in 2011 18 in 2012. how many are coming in 2013? Friday night dinner is a salute to Veterans who have served or are serving our country. Saturday is the big day, and we expect upwards of 11,000 visitors. There is an opportunity for six Mooney Ambassadors to take place in the air show by doing high-speed passes. We typically get a nice hotel rate and car rental rate for this event. Point Persons: Michael Golden and Jolie Lucas Mooney Events We Encourage! Mooney Caravan Formation Flying Clinic Southwest Region- MCAS Yuma March 15/16/17 In preparation for the Mooney Caravan XVI, all formation arrival to EAA Airventure, the 2nd Annual Caravan Southwest Formation Clinic will be held at MCAS Yuma on March 15,16,and 17th. Our FBO host is Millionair and the group hotel will be the Radisson. The event is open to all interested pilots; no previous formation experience is required. Even if you are not currently considering joining the Mooney Caravan, exposure to formation flying is a great education and good skill to develop. Safety pilots will guide you in acquiring formation skills. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity.Friday late afternoon will kick off ground school for pilots new to formation or that wish a refresher course. Those interested in advanced 4 ship formation work will break out for advanced training. Afterwords, group dinner at the Radisson. Flying starts on Saturday. Group briefing at Millionair at 08:00 with the first sorties starting at 0900. The number of participating pilots will determine the flight schedule for the remainder of the clinic. There will be opportunity to have several training sorties each day. Group lunch will be at the Jet Away Café at Millionair for $1. Overnight accommodations at the Radisson for $89/night. Sharing the ramp with the Caravan Clinic is the Royal Air Force. Expect “Tea Time” with our pilot friends from across the pond Saturday after flying. If interested in attending, please e-mail Chuck Crinnian at chiefpilot@frontierneurology.com you interest and contact information. A detailed schedule and information packet will then be sent to you. Mooney Pilot Proficiency Program Capt. G. Allan Hancock Field (KSMX), Santa Maria, California on the weekend of April 26-28, 2013. We will be staying at the Radisson Hotel Santa Maria (located at the airport). The telephone number is 805-928-8000 or 800-967-9033. By booking the hotel one year in advance, we secured an excellent “high season” room rate of $94.00 a night – a significant savings over the retail “rack” rate. The hotel has a cutoff date for the reduced group rate. So, if it looks like you may be able to attend this program, please call the hotel at this time and make your reservation. Then, if your schedule changes at a later date, the hotel will allow you to cancel your reservation 48 hours before your arrival date without any penalty. Your early registration also helps us to firm up our instructor corps for the event. The parking ramp is adjacent to the hotel and all parking fees will be waived. The FBO (Central Coast Jet Center) has indicated that they will offer us a reduced price for the fuel. Furthermore, there is a self-fuel facility on the field which advertises very competitive fuel prices. We hope that you will decide to join us at this program. If it appears that your schedule will allow you to be with us at Santa Maria, call Lela Hughes at MAPA (210-525-8008) and she will register you for the program. For those who may be interested, we will be offering night recurrent training on Thursday or Friday, or both, starting at sundown. Send me an email if you are interested in night flying so that I can make certain that I have enough flight instructors for your training. At the completion of the program, eligible pilots will be endorsed for their flight review, instrument proficiency check, FAA WINGS program, and will receive an FAA recognized Certificate of Successful Completion of a Mooney specific recurrent training program. This certificate will prove valuable to you when it becomes necessary to renew your airplane insurance policy. Many insurance companies are now requiring confirmation that you have completed a recurrent training program prior to quoting you a premium rate or offering you a renewal policy; and many of them are providing pilots a 10% discount on the annual premium upon proof of the successful completion of our program. Come join us. It will be a mini-vacation of mountain air with abundant sunshine. A time to relax and enjoy yourself while you learn more about your Mooney airplane and hone your flying skills with a weekend of recurrent training among Mooney pilots and friends – and skilled Mooney instructors. Ted Corsones Past President & Treasurer 802-775-0125 (office) 813-435-8464 (mobile) tedc@corsones.com Maintenance MAPA poster.pdf

I am psychotherapist so I guess I am an "other" too!

The Mooney Ambassadors in conjunction with MAPA are proud to present... Master Mechanic and Mooney Legend, Jerry Manthey 2013 Maintenance Seminar June 22nd and 23rd Santa Maria, California KSMX $199.00 per person includes the seminar, maintenance manual,and lunch. Come learn from the best. ArtCraft Paint, our host, will offer a presentation on Mooney painting and will raffle a free airplane wash and detail. Not a member of MAPA? You should be! $243.50 is the non-MAPA price and includes a year membership. We must have 30 students signed up and paid by May 22nd or the class will be cancelled. For registration: http://mooneypilots.com/ Should be a great weekend on the Central Coast of California. We are so pleased that Jerry offered to do this for us. Jolie Lucas Maintenance MAPA poster.pdf

Have we interviewed your Dad for our Mooney Legacy video project: Boots on the Ground? We have 13 hours of video being edited to a 1 3/4 hour movie. Folks who worked at Mooney for 20-50 years! The stories of innovation, perseverence and passion are wonderful. The movie will be premiered at Kerrville in late 2013. Stay tuned.....

I would check two things: the gear tension and the down latch to make sure it isn't egg shaped. With mine, the tension was right, but the stops, both up and down had become egg-shaped over the years. I purchased new ones from LASAR [Lake Aero Styling and Repair]. The gear down from LASAR is a mod which is much stronger than the original. I hope this helps. The other thing I have to do is make sure that I get the gear up before I am going really fast. I have a 65 E model.

Join us May 10th and 11th for a good old-fashioned airport celebration at Oceano Airport. Friday night May 10th: Beach Burger Fry and Dance featuring the San Luis Jazz Band. Tickets for the dinner/dance are $10 and available from www.FriendsofOceanoAirport.com or at the gate. Enjoy a burger, hayrides, strolling under the stars on the ramp and a great time shaking your groove thing. Saturday, May 11th is Celebration Day and begins at 8:30 with the 5-Cities Lion's Club famous pancake breakfast. Family friendly, free admission. On display will be emergency responders, private airplanes, gyro-copters, trikes and more! In our campground there will be children's activities and booths. Oceano Elks will be serving tri-tip sandwiches at 11:30. Opening ceremony and Veterans salute is at noon. There is overnight camping in our campground for $10. We have a lodging discount at the Pacific Plaza Resort [$65]. Oceano Fuel is once again bringing their Wheel of Fortune to spin for great prizes and discounts. Please bring military care package items for donation. The Friends of Oceano Airport are teaming with a group that sends care packages to our front-line troops. We need hard candy, baby wipes, granola/protein bars, cup o'noodles, gum, travel sized toiletries, jerky, dark socks and trail mix. YouTube Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wct088rzYhk There will be preferential space for Mooneys. Come join us on Mooney Row! Celebration 2013 poster.pdf

Robert, it takes a brave person to admit and learn from their mistakes. We all get distracted and maybe we all too think "I can save this". The happy news is all can be repaired, and you have a learning/growing experience. Thank you for sharing.

Something makes me think this airplane was painted at ArtCraft in Santa Maria, CA. I know they can get it back to looking perfect if so. I am also happy that everyone was okay. Hate to see a Mooney on its belly though.

Sounds like a great event Dave. Thank you for organizing. Cable is a great airport. Fun fun fun