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Hah! Spark.

Congrats and thanks for the great photo--not the guy with the goofy headset, that sleek wing framed by clouds!

In a few weeks we'll celebrate the 53rd birthday of my E. She has, in the 9 years that I have owned her, started flawlessly under all conditions. I think you need to take yours to the E-whisperer. He did the annuals on mine for a decade before I bought her and because of that I did no pre-purchase inspection. Hie thee to KGGG.

There be douche's out there that run around taking test flights in airplanes for sale with no intention of buying.

Agreed. I have said that should I ever attain 1-percenter wealth I would fly The Mistress out to Kerrville with a list of what I wanted done. This plane comes close to my fantasy, but off in too many ways for me to sell mine and buy it.

I was going to comment that the only thing wrong with this E is electric gear.

HAH! Spark.

Damn! You missed your chance!

My IA (80+ years old, knew Al Mooney) would say spark, fuel, air. My E starts in two blades or less, he's rarely wrong.

..and yet you captured incredible photos. What IS IT ABOUT PICTURES FRAMED WITH A MOONEY WING? Just ethereal!

Clarence, first let me say that as I consider Don Maxwell to be God's gift, you are certainly the high priest At the end of the day it is money and the need to survive in a capitalistic society. Yes, that sounds peculiar in this thread, but the fact remains that the mechanics that service my Mercedes are frighteningly higher paid than the A&Ps who work on my Mooney--and yes, I begrudge them that as well. My Mooney will kill me far quicker than my AMG will, even given the fact that my driving, according to my wife, is reckless and immature, yet I persist in being a cheap bastard when it comes to the maintenance of my E. We are all human after all. I, for one, have learned that the Zen of Mooney Maintenance is a cooperative, involved religion. Oh, and the wife has never flown with me and most likely never will.

This encapsulates my philosophy about maintenence, sort of trust but verify 1) Know what was done, 2) Verify that it was done correctly. My IA left off a cotter on the throttle cable. It could have killed me, as it turned out, it was a great test of my piloting skills and an enforcement of the above two tenets. I know what happened, here's the sequence: 1) At annual, I told him I wanted the fuel servo rebuilt (too much chasing). 2) They pulled it off, sent it out, reinstalled it. The last thing done was attaching the throttle cable (I really should be in the NTSB). Just before time to slip the cotter pin in the drilled screw through the castellated nut, someone yelled "Coffee's ready!" or a bathroom break was needed. Whoever should have put that cotter in came back and everything looked ok and so they buttoned it up. 3) Fuel control worked beautifully after I picked it up. I flew out to the Mooney Summit, all was fine. Somewhere over NOLA the nut came off. I thought something was strange but I could not not put a finger on it until I tried to slow the plane down. After four attempts to land I discovered that you could control the engine with the mixture I just can't agree with those pilots who think they don't have the time or knowledge to know their Mooney, especially an aging one. Now, when anything is done, I check. Annuals, believe it or not, are fairly easy to verify. It is when something special needs to be done that things can go awry. Although I consider Don to be god's gift to Mooney maintenance, things happen. I frankly do not believe they happened as @cujet says they did.

N5976Q '66 M20E Super 21 IO-360-A1A (2018-08-26 07:26)

I would be very careful with anything wired direct to the battery. You are correct, my setup is for an in-air power port and was installed by an A&P. When I had a battery minder, I used the cable that it came with and wired it to my battery and then ran it over to where my step comes out. After landing I could just reach up in there and find the cable and plug it in. You can do the same thing with the kit called out in the prior post by @mooniac15u.

That is exactly what I have in my E. The PO had a tap made onto the master switch relay and routed up to a Molex connector at the hatrack. When I redid the interior I put a power port in there (12 V receptacle). Works great for my Arctic Cooler.

Very well... Taken FROM A MOONEY (recently). Out the pilot's window at a couple of thousand feet. The Neches river ship channel, Southeast Texas, USA. Note the cloud 'shadow line', too cool.

No, no socks. My sartorially hopeful children bought me some 'toe socks' a few years ago hoping to minimize the embarrassment. They don't work, Vibrams are meant to be worn commando.

Indeed! Pretty much a drop in the AMU bucket and worth it to have it all in one box. Another bonus is that the F is just a stretched E, so there might be a few extra screws loose in there

Erik, browse here. The only physics (other than E&E) that I ever liked was quantum mechanics and this semester I started a course in it for EEs. Gonna be fun, the physics department is upset, but the way we do it and the way they do it are different. Ok, time to move to private messaging...

Clarkson, good school (now see if you can deduce where I am a professor). I am an EE. I became one at 3 years old when I discovered arc flash (that's a story for another time). I have never sacrificed comfort for fashion--just ask my kids, they are both Manhattanites now and cringe at the thought of being in public with me. Not everyone can wear Vibrams. I've discovered that women always tell me they can't stand things between their toes--must be from having that spongy thing on at the pedicurist. When you first wear them your feet and legs are in pain. This is because you are using muscles in the correct way, i.e., as nature intended, without any artificial support. After a break-in period you develop perfect gait. What's neat is that if you took mine and poured plaster into them, you would have a perfect set of lasts of my feet. They mold to them over time.

See my reply to @aviatoreb Of course I fly with them, it's the closest I'll ever get to playing 'footsie' with The Mistress.

I get no end of comments. My favorite is "Are they comfortable?" to which I reply "No, my feet are in constant pain." Frankly, I own five different pairs, these are my daily wear ones. I have workout, running, boating/water sports, and dress (Kangaroo Leather). A full-professor of engineering with tenure can pretty much wear whatever he likes. As a favor to the university president (he hates them), I wear regular shoes (and socks!) to commencement.

Vibram Fivefingers CVT-Hemp Khaki MENS

Don Maxwell article here.

Finally got back in the air...(Oh what a feeling!). Was just kissing 80º at the airport and the tires were visibly low. Air Hawk put about a pound in the nose and then died. By that time the fuel truck had arrived and after fueling I asked if the compressor was working--it wasn't and in 9 years at KBPT it never has . The lineguy offered to bring the firetruck back and since he seemed more anxious than me to go fetch it, I said sure. It has to be the most expensive compressor on the planet, but after a few minutes all three tires were happy again. By then it was getting steamy so I got in the air about 9 AM. Super hazy, but a great flight nonetheless. A squeaker landing so she put the step down for me!