Hank

@Hyett6420, the news article doesn't say much more than the plane departed Knoxville, TN, headed to Aiken, SC, and didn't arrive. SAR in Macon County, NC, is out, but the weather is poor. What blew through Alabama last night brought some tornadoes, and we were at the extreme SW end of a lengthy line of storms. The closest tornado to us fell apart 20 minutes before the weatherman said it woukd reach us, but the 10 pm lightning show was intense. Here is the flight track. Looks like he went down right at the NC/SC state line.

Drop the year and you've got his new N number. Also, over here it's singular: math, formed by cutting the word "mathematics" at the fjrst syllable break.

Crap! It's certainly "rugged terrain," my wife and I both have family in the area. Not sure what was going on with the flight path there at the end . . . .

In celebration of Pi(e) Day, we did this tonight:

I wrote my own checklist from my Owners Manual, added new equipment, removed old stuff [Avionics Master Switch replaced turning each radio on and off, etc]. Then rearrange the items to suit your own flows.

You can always doublecheck their math. My C is often near the front limit, especially with two guys and no baggage

It took me and my freshly-retired IA fewer man-hours than that! Of course, they were my 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th owner-assisted annuals. Now I'm in the hell of my first [and last, if I can help it!] "Drop it off, insurance won't let you help" 6-week annual from hell . . . . But even he quoted me 18-20 hours based on that checklist. Didn't realize that meant one hour per weekday, with weekends off. No, wait, that was two weeks ago . . . . . .

You beat me to it!

If you use the 100-Hr / Annual Checklist posted here several places and at www.mooney.com, the going rate seems to be 16-20 hours labor, plus anything that needs repair / replacement. The exact number of hours may be negotiable, but should be agreed to in advance. Try to get a firm completion date, too.

Lycoming or Continental?

Personal preference. I could probably manage the bar most days. But I enjoy keeping the gear up and flying approaches with Takeoff Flaps, using gear to initiate the descent. And I've never had to learn the Mooney Dip, and don't worry over much about obstructed departures, important since I was based for 7 years at an obstructed 3000' field.

The first run-in you have with your right shoulder will either make you an electric gear believer or convert you to fixed gear . . . .

Buy @Sherman8tor's removed parts. You've got the same airframe as an F, which used to be manual.

Cool! Please send me 100 hours. Or your fuel card. I promise not to go over . . .

But having a Mooney as a first plane has worked out well for a number of us. I bought mine with 62 Cessna hours in my logbook . . . And still love flying it 12 years later. There's an awful lot of work in buying and selling ine airplane before buying the one you want. So I bought my first plane that did what I want to do, within reasonable limits.

Then I would miss out on laughing heartily at all of the "my engine won't start when it's hot, what do I do?" threads! Me, i just open the throttle a little, push mixture all the way forward, turn the key and push . . . .

Doesn't look like it goes through the wall. You can see where the fuse was scalloped to match the logs on the outside and screwed into them.

I hear this all the time about cars and planes. BUT . . . . I trained in a Cessna, then bought a Mooney. Zero carryover . . . I went to driver's ed in a Ford LTD, lo these many moons ago. I still have not bought a Ford vehicle, although I did inherit the Ford Ranger that I'm driving now. I have owned but didn't buy a Chevy, then bought Honda, Infiniti, Jaguar, Hyundai, Toyota and Nissan. Zero carryover . . . Is this pattern really that unusual???? Do Boeing, Lockheed or Airbus make entry-level "step up" jets? Not that I'm aware! Gulfstream, Cessna, Lear, Fokker do, and the nice folks who make CRJs. But they don't make the big ones to compete even with an A320 or 737. It's quite difficult to make something to suit everyone. Pick a market and set out to dominate it. Mooney has picked, they just lack the spirit to dominate.

Mine are that way, too.

Wow! No engine but still has a drip pad . . . The tail outside looks neat (but different), but I don't understand having the rest of the plane inside . . . . .

Try WOT/2700, 18gph, it should be cooler.

How is it different from the LASAR Brake Rotation STC? Other than the wheels seem turned around, too.

Blood oxygen sensors won't pick up CO, as it bonds to your hemoglobin instead of O2 (and much tighter), so is misread as oxygen. Find Dan's story here of passing out in flight; even at the hospital, they didn't detect CO poisoning for several hours, until he mentioned it to them as a possibility.

Looks well made. Great machining. Can you give us a picture of it in place?

Then squirt it again. Or change to a dry buffer. It's also the easier post-flight bug remover ever.