MooneyMike

Here are a couple ideas in flyover country... KCGI in Cape Girardeau Missouri makes for a good stop. Nice friendly airport and the town, sitting along the Mississippi is interesting and pretty. Plenty of good places to eat in town KRVS in Tulsa has a nice FBO, Christiansen Aviation. I saw 3 Piaggio Avanti's there too. And how could you pass up KBRY in Bardstown Kentucky? Voted the prettiest small town in the country and home of the bourbon industry. Mike

Regarding meeting TBO, there are more issues than engine compression and oil burn. Things like crankshaft counterweights. When I bought my J it had a high time engine that ran great, had good compressions, low oil burn, fuel flow to specs and in every regard was a great engine. But during an annual the MSC said "it has a vibration we cannot balance with prop weights." Friend of mine is an expert on rotating machinery vibration, so we glued a 3 - axis set of accelerometers and logged the data. It had 1 ips vibration and a good engine can be balanced to be in the range of about .2 ips. I talked to quite a few people (engine builders, etc.) and their thought was the tungsten counterweights in the crankshaft start moving and cause the vibration. The fix is to tear it down and rebuild the crank. I opted for factory new as at the time I had a good core and with the economy in meltdown it was available with minimum downtime. I bought the airplane with a high time engine, and knew repair or replacement was in the future. It just came sooner than I wished. Moral of the story is if the plane looks good, have the balance checked during the pre-buy. Mike

I tried every trick I knew to fix this thing to no avail. The event viewer showed some windows updates about the time the thing stopped working but even going into regedit and making changes did not help. Seems the issue was more than just in Garmin's software. Garmin has now released something called Garmin Aviation Database Manager and it is quite different than the previous program. Installed it and I am now working again. Mike

Looks like I've got a corrupted file or the registry link is broken. I've tried to fix it using the standard tools so far.

PT20J, I uninstalled flyGarmin for Windows as that would not open and still does not after re-installing it. The version number has not changed.

Howdy everyone. A couple days ago I decided to check to see if any new updates were in affect and found the flyGarmin app would not open. flyGarmin is the blue box you check before loading the new updates on the SD card. It worked on 12/14 and when digging through Windows I saw a Windows Security updated on 12/16. Of course I was unable to go back to a previous windows version as it had been more than 10 days since Microsoft broke my Garmin. I've uninstalled, restarted, reinstalled, swore at the pos, and it's still broke. Event viewer shows a fault every time I try to open it. AvdbUpdaterUI.exe 1.5.11.0 5f5fced6 KERNELBASE.dll 10.0.19041.1348 9166324b e0434352 0012b502 23ec 01d7fa687a56a539 C:\Program Files (x86)\Garmin\flyGarmin for Windows\AvdbUpdaterUI.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll 7eb30f7c-a72c-4721-94e0-3d888de39aa5 Anyone gone through this and resolved it? Thanks everyone, fly safe and fly often Mike N201XF 6I2

Hey y'all, sorry for the delayed response, I was at Barber Motorsports Park all weekend. Nice to hear from everyone! Hangars are at a premium everywhere it seems and I was happy to get one this close to home. E-town, Bardstown and Lebanon - Springfield host fly in breakfasts each month so put one of them on your 'gotta do' list, it would be nice to meet! Mike

I live in Bardstown and based out of 6I2, Lebanon Springfield in North Central Kentucky. Mike N201XF

Hey y'all, I just relocated my Mooney from Bowling Green KY to Lebanon Springfield today and saw a Mooney taxi past. Walked over to the fuel pump and met a MooneySpacer Dominikos flying to Ohio. Anyone bump into a fellow MooneySpacer lately? Mike

I’ll take the Bluegrass and pass on the sand. Couple weeks ago I bailed from California and moved to Bardstown, KY. Nice little town, friendly people. Samuels Field is building more hangars this year and I’m on the wait list. For the time being, I’ve got a hangar in Bowling Green. Once I’ve got all my stuff here I’ll go back and return with my J.

Golden State in San Luis Obispo. The weather is nicer here.

That's a good idea. thanks, Mike

I'm replacing the VR, and yes it was a pain to get out. No quite the shotgun approach to troubleshooting but not far from it either. When the new one comes I'll measure the field circuit again for resistance and see if the new terminal rectified the problem. (yeah, an electrical joke, yuck yuck. A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks ... )

That is funny! I was just in Florida and geez but every other radio advert was for ED treatments.

Found this burnt connector (the blue one) on the Master switch. The lead pulled free from the connector when removing so that may be the culprit for higher than expected resistance readings. The burnt look is rather suspect. But I was unable to make any resistance readings from pin B to the alternator field lead today. Obviously I'm anxious to see if that fixed it. Being unable to find a drawing for the switch I can only guess this lead is for the alternator circuit. I also replaced the ring terminal connector at the alternator but my resistance readings were with the new connector. In the next couple days a package from Aircraft Spruce will be on my porch and I'll replace the Cold War -era voltage regulator and see if it will deliver 42 years of faithful service. More to follow no doubt.