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I feel for you Steve. I did not have the serial number of my unit in my Journey Log (it was in the tech log), so I called the shop and asked them to check their records. Mine is not on the list, but the serial number of my unit is now in my Journey Log (required document for Canadian registered aircraft). I am good, but I recognise that not everyone will be so lucky. Hope it works out for you.

This reminds me of the engine out practices I did during the last Mooney PPP I did in 2019, the year before the pandemic. Parked at some altitude above and close to the airfield and then figure out how much time and how many turns to end up on final. He obviously landed long, beyond the IFR touchdown point, so as to make one of the taxiways. Very well done.

Look in our downloads folder here on Mooneyspace. Bound to be here.

I love these PPP clinics. I am hoping to get to one in the Northeast this year.

I have had the warning horn switch move on the throttle cable three times during my ownership. Clarence fixed it each time - and it is not easy to do from under the panel. With regard to the actual gear speeds in the POH, manual gear Mooney's are great speed brakes. Not fussed about dropping them at higher speeds. Just keep the handle from slamming wildly into the down lock block on the panel. I am generally doing 140 mph or less at the IAF or crossing over mid field for the pattern and have never had any problems in 17 years of flying this Mooney. I am usually at 120 halfway to the FAF or on the turn to downwind and that is well within the POH stated limits. Not the same for the hydraulic flaps though. Deploy them above 100 mph and they will come back up on you.

My wife decided to call ours Baby. Her call. I’m good.

+1 for the 900. Don’t have one yet, but it is way better than the 700 I have now.

+ 1 on what Mike said here. Have you asked Clarence what he suggests for the break in? I would take his advice above many others. When he reinstalled my overhauled engine in 2012 or so, he told me exactly what Mike says here.

Jeremy: that was the first Mooney I looked at in 2004. She was in Brockville at the time. Your best bet for aircraft covers are the folks at Aero Covers at Barry regional airport, about 30 Mooney minutes away from London. They do most of the covers for those of us outside here in Rockcliffe.

Mine does.

In Northern Ontario, one of its useful functions is to sling the food pack up between two trees. About 15 feet or so to get it higher than the black bears can reach. My boys (men now with their own families) taught theirs the same thing when they went to Algonquin Park.

In those days, I was used to living in the bush and not so used to flying over it. It was all about being able to walk away from the mess if (when) the big cooling fan up front stopped being on my team. My perspective has since changed and that length of rope is no longer part of my survival kit. Still, flying over Northern Ontario is slightly more risky than flying over Pennsylvania in the winter, and I would rather be somewhat prepared.

That is what I did when our Arrow ground looped during a landing on a snowy runway and it was totalled. No help from the FBO. Got my survival kit out with its 100’ of 9/16” nylon and we towed it aboard their towing bed. Moved it to visitor parking and there it sat for 4 months while the insurance decided what to do.

Mike: I knew the pilot and had flown with her once in her previous E model, but we lost touch when she left Rockcliffe and moved her J model to Carp (CYRP).

Just to be clear here, we J bar folks make use of our emergency gear extension procedure every time we successfully land with the gear extended. No biggee.

What is a Ham Radio? Used to be mostly HF frequencies on what was often called "amateur radio." Licence used to require a minimum amount of morse code transmission and reception speeds - most folks could key much faster than they could receive. Usually allowed up to 200 watts for a home station (depending on jurisdiction). Today frequencies go far above HF into VHF, and UHF. Typical station looks like this (from https://www.dummies.com/programming/ham-radio/ham-radio-for-dummies-cheat-sheet/) but it does not show the work for raising and hooking up appropriate antennae or their terminations. I have friends that still have 80' towers outside their houses, with droopy dipoles, sloping V's and others. I was in the Signal Corps so I got close to some civ installations - but we did mostly HF for long range, VHF for military tactical, UHF for line-of-sight/microwave/satcom, and SHF for satcom installations.

Have a kneeboard as well. Used for writing ATIS, clearances, frequencies, etc. And to safely store and transport the mini when not in its mount.

Mini with a ram mount on the yoke in portrait orientation.

Until you have to look at the guy in the mirror. Or maybe that is just me….

Without comment on political systems or state-sponsored theft, the business model used throughout most of the PRC is drawn from Sun Tzu's "Art of War." Predation is an accepted business practice because it is done to those who have not yet become allies, even business partners. Establishing mutually beneficial relationships is required to precede business deals, unless leverage can be used to prevent running into their lawyers from "Screwem, Dooem, and How." Done in varying degrees in Japan and Korea as well. Depends on where the two business partners come from. This does not apply everywhere for everything, but I have seen it enough to know it exists, including in places like Singapore where the rulers are mainly Chinese. Gam sahab nida.

Fellow Canuck: Missed the one that characterises mine with Clarence. He puts up with me. He stays ahead of issues when he knows about them. He sometimes lets me help. He is the single most competent aircraft mechanic I know. He never, ever accepts second best. It is never about him making me feel good as a customer, it is always about him taking his responsibilities for our safety seriously. Always. Can’t buy that. Such approaches are not normally for sale. I could not ask for better.

Went back to the Canadian Military College in Kingston in 1985. During my second year there, I found, since I was not a cadet this go round, I had Friday afternoons free. I had originally joined the military to be a pilot but my eyes were not of “eagle” grade so I ended up in the signal corps. With the pay of a Captain, and a free afternoon a week, it took me six months to get my license.

Eclipse 550. Two engines. 40,000 ft ceiling. Only thing missing is the auto land feature. I am getting old and need something to save my girl just in case.

I had a local mechanic do that to mine once following an oil change. I took pics, had a meeting, and showed his folks how it supposed to be done. Never happened again.

Added the new pics as promised above.