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I’m looking forward to the after pics Rick! Best regards, -a-

Really nice pirep for……. Don Brady at Deer Horn Aviation in Midland, TX (KMAF) was fantastic See if @TrekLawler is aware of the TIT GEA71 and G1000 challenge… Best regards, -a-

Peter had the best opinions… From my analog BK system is like a Swiss Watch… To who is going to trust digital attitude displays… His Mooney is incredibly beautiful… including the leather interior he managed himself… including the sewing of the leather yokes. He probably has several color screens today… Best regards, -a-

I’m always asking Trek for more…. Mostly because I dislike sending people to BT for big G support… Go MS! Best regards, -a-

Symptom of having air in the brake lines… squishy pedals. Does the M20J have the brake fluid reservoir in the tail? (LBs do) The long distance from reservoir to brake cylinders may have an uphill location that has a tendency to catch a bubble… Flushing the bubble out takes a minimal amount of know how… May take two people to pump brakes, send a lot of fluid through the line, and close the line before air comes back in… Be on the look out for where that bubble lives… Happiness is… a solid brake pedal. PP thoughts only, not a mechanic… Best regards, -a-

Note for @TrekLawler… Always nice to have you stop in and share the Garmin news here…. Please double check your settings to make sure your email is attached to your MooneySpace account… This way, when an MSer is hoping to share info with Garmin, you get a quicker notification. Best regards, -a-

Really nice pireps for Weber… C&W… and AirMods… Thanks for sharing them. Best regards, -a-

For selecting the specific Fuel eleven sensor… Use Ceis as the base line… where their accuracy is about 1 gallon over a 100 gal load… With hundreds of installs around here… See if you can find a pirep on the other brand… it may be as good, but you have more effort required to know for yourself if … there should be a few around here… do you have any speed brakes or any other oddities inside the tanks? This is where the linearity causes issues… Ceis has the ability to calibrate for a bunch of non-linear challenges…. You mentioned the EVP doing the linear interpolation… Sounds like you may want to discuss this with your fuel tank expert to get the results that you want… I bet your fuel tank guy knows the details you want to have… You are paying a lot for that expertise… make sure you get what you are asking for… If you are an engineer, or enjoy electronics… this is a relatively simple challenge to go through… If this is a forever-plane… having two fuel level sensors in each tank is really good… The inner one provides accuracy as the tank(s) runs down… the outer one provides accuracy as the tank is filled near the top… the tanks go up hill a lot as they go towards the wing tips… overall challenge… 1) Old plane 2) Updated fuel tanks (not a simple single rectangular tank, but two… that empty simultaneously from uphill to downhill) 3) Fuel level sensors in the orginal location(s) (?) one per tank or two? 4) Upgrading tanks with new sealant 5) Upgrading fuel level sensors to digital accuracy 6) You have a fuel totalizer that probably gets used as your best source of info of fuel used… Between the two systems… you really have a good method of knowing how much fuel is really in there… at all times. 7) Unless you forget to reset the fuel used in the totalizer before flight… fill the tanks to the top… Or…. don’t have a method of partially filling the tanks… calibrated stick, or mechanical gauge in the wing. Compare these notes to what you have in mind… see if I missed anything… 8) I have a simple FT101 fuel totalizer… precisely calibrated. mechanical fuel level sensors… accurate to about 1/8 of a tank (not very precise at all) mechanical fuel level sensors in the wing for partial fueling. Really good accuracy to about 25 gal. There is nothing more stressful than running low on fuel, and being unsure how much you have used, or how much is really left… Running out of fuel is in the top 4 issues we are constantly battling… IMC, ice, and thunderstorms are the others… Update your electronics check list items… resetting the fuel used / totalizer details is really nice to remember… PP thoughts only, not a mechanic… Best regards, -a-

As long as the Ceis floats are allowed to follow the fuel level… they work incredibly well… even if there are oddities with volume vs. height that some Mooneys have… For modern Long Bodies… 130 gallons with nothing inside the tanks… optimal! If interested… we can invite the Ceis guy. @fuellevel Best regards, -a-

Summarish… 1) FF up in the 18-20 for keeping CHTs lower in the climb…. IO550s use 28-30 for the same reason… 2) Seals are everything… get them worked out, cleaned, keep them from folding back on themselves… 3) Check seals at the front… alternator and starter often leak air pressure into where it doesn’t belong… 4) Follow-up on that sawtooth pattern CHT…. If that were EGT it has a meaning of a sticking valve… find out what is causing that. 5) Guy Ginsby is the guru of air cooling seals… have a conversation with him. 6) always be aware of temp issues… prove they are real, or instrument related. 7) all knobs forward is typical Mooney climb profile… 8) leaning in the climb is possible as the MP drops… 9) EGTs are hard to compare between planes because they are very dependent on MMs distance from the exhaust valve… 10) Many Mooney EGT sensors were not put in exact standard locations in the IO360… standardized locations probably didn’t arrive until the late 80s… when installed at the factory… 11) cruise climb speed 120 indicated is a good method of keeping CHTs under control while moving across the ground and getting to altitude… 12) cowl flaps open…? (Old worn ones have a tendency to close on their own) PP summary only, not a mechanic… Best regards, -a-

Pre Y2K? Before I owned a plane… -a-

Actual IMC adds to the challenge of getting the clearance while airborne… We used to have something called an RCO.. Remote Control Outlet? it was a radio frequency for the nearest Class D approach/departure group… The cell phone was a better solution. Best regards, -a-

Always be on the look out for some form of locking collar or other locking mechanism… It can be really disappointing when a Mooney falls off the jacks… it has happened to a few long standing MSers around here. There are pics of wing holes and bent props. Think and then review your work… Actively Avoid the sad story. Best regards, -a-

Weber, AirMods, and C&W… generally get good reviews for the work done… Real estate cost probably makes a difference in pricing… C&W lives in the modern world… Weber is in PA AirMods is in the garden part of the garden state…. Best regards, -a-

G5 and G3X originated in the same business unit at Big G… The 275 comes from the certified part of the business… certified and experimental lines are a bit blurred here… But the lines of business are clear within the big G groups… kinda like two different companies that work together… Go big G! Best regards, -a-

Oscar at home on grass strips… if anyone asks if Mooneys are good on grass… @Oscar Avalle has the answer right here! having the AOAi probably simplifies things a bit. Great video as always. Best regards, -a-

Ask Siri… Ask Alexa… Ask MS… To get much value out of ChatGPT… we are going to need more training ourselves… Training ChatGPT is helpful for becoming a known entity…. Give ChatGPT all you want the world to know… it gets repeated quickly after that… garbage in equals garbage out taken to a much higher level… I have to find the right way to ask… how do I take a 1amu investment and turn it into a dream, Garmin based, 100amu, Mooney instrument panel… with air conditioning? I have a dream… PP thoughts only, not a tech guru… Best regards, -a-

Yes to both questions… Getting paints via color code is possible… and the local car paint shops have become computer savvy… Color matching your actual paint from your actual access panel makes a lot of sense… There is probably a good prep procedure to follow to get the best match… the old paint code is nice for matching what the plane had in 1974… unfortunately paint colors actually change some with time. Reds are the most sensitive to change… Chemical stability and UV light is probably the culprit… My M20C used a Krylon spray can with really good results… surface corrosion fighting… My M20R visits an aviation paint shop every decade or so… general wear and tear… Best regards, -a-

While we are discussing engine controls… Losing any of them inflight can be a bit disastrous… Engine controls have moved up the expected life list as something to be changed at each engine OH… That is about every 2k hours of operation… When they fail… they typically give a small amount of warning before jamming in place… other signs of wear are often picked up during the annual… So…. review the other ones while you are in there… Getting new engine controls is as easy as it gets… owner supplied parts rule. (Real parts, no middleman.) Best regards, -a-

There must be an interesting name for this… 1) fill out a form 2) review it 3) know it all looks good 4) neglect to push the submit button. I have seen this in non-aviation apps as well… could be an interesting version of a distraction… Would love to know the cause, and how to avoid it… Best regards, -a-

These plastic lenses’ quality were terrible from the day they were introduced… Something happened to their availability… Then miraculously they were available again… Contact your favorite MSC to check the status on them… expect the price to be uncomfortable for such a simple bit… The ones in the pic above look like they completely delaminated… you might be able to temporarily rebuild it with a nicer piece of plastic… Best regards, -a-

Seeing if @aviatoreb is around for this one… best regards, -a- -a-

Expect possible rodent nest… -a-

One thing that is hard to control… until you get some experience… All the small timing steps…. 1) Making phone calls 2) starting the engine 3) taxi to run-up 4) run-up 5) Taxi to the runway 6) be ready to depart You don’t want to rush the process to depart into IMC… You don’t want to be sitting on the ground fouling a plug either… Memories of a flip phone tucked under a David Clark headset at an uncontrolled field… Best regards, -a-

Where is our Carson Speed Guru? We sorta have one… he wrote a master’s thesis on the topic. let’s invite @testwest to the conversation… Carson’s speed is the speed you use when ATC sends you in a direction you don’t want to go… This can happen when flying IFR… and they can’t work you into the system…. They give you a heading 180° away from where you want to go… No need to fly Mooney speeds to go the wrong direction… There is one Mooniac that flew across the country on one tank of gas… efficiency was everything for that trip. @201er has done some pretty long flights into sparsely populated areas… where fuel economy can become important… Best regards, -a-