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Good Gawd, that hangar is cleaner than my arteries. Congrats on the new Mooney! My son-in-law told my daughter that my airplane has done wonders for my health. I lost weight, got off BP meds, running, exercising--get your dad healthy and remember, every 6.02 pounds lost is an extra gallon of Avgas

You should still check out Savvy. EZtrends has a sucky interface and I don't believe it does any more than Savvy. Also, the reason Mike Busch made it free is that he uses the data everyone uploads to look at engine behavior trends (nothing is truly free) and it is a massive database.

The sexual innuendos associated with Mooney airplanes is limitless and never ceases to amaze

The rumor I heard was that the FAA inspector got spooked and they arbitrarily set it at 183. I simply cannot imagine a Super 21 going over 200. Must be extremely frightening and delightfully exhilarating at the same time. I wonder what it's like

Super strong. Pull hard, real hard.

Beechcraft shows a 'Seal' under part number 1551 that goes to 2007-7. KRN Aviation Services has four of them. Is that the step servo boot?

...neither is Super.

Same thing with a high-end car. My wife was front-ended by a drug-crazed moron, didn't blow the bags but we wound up with a $15K repair. When we went to trade all we heard was how dirty the CarFax was. The repair was flawless, but no matter.

One should not consider purchasing a mite without a consult with Boyd Maddox. He has literally disassembled and then reassembled them. Two years ago I was in his maintenance hangar at KAXH and he had a Mite in small pieces laid out on the floor like a kid getting ready to assemble a model airplane.

Don't start, not Super... ...but I know Brett will enjoy his Mooney, congrats. Trey Hughes at MAPA keeps a database of Mooney CFI's.

So how do you tell if it was? My '65/6E is yellow green all over the inside. It is corrosion-free to a T (had the once-over by the legendary Bruce Jaeger and pronounced 'clean'). She's hangared, but in SETX that does not say much.

Your first item sounds like something is being 'charged' and needs a kickstart, the second one (obviously) speaks to an overheat problem. Could be a cap, most likely electrolytic, that has dried out. Overheat could be a transistor. I'd set it up on a bench and try to reproduce the symptoms. Now that you have the schematic you can just wave trace. Please let us know what you find.

I may be confusing a Missile with a Rocket, but I believe my IA said something about having to drop the engine forward to get to anything. My point is that you may want to ask some Mooney wrenches about maintenance because these are upgrades to existing difficult to repair aircraft.

Sean, A Super 21 flies itself, you just guide it. It will actually save your bacon because it knows more about flying than you do. Mother Nature will try to smack you out of the air if you get careless, but the Super 21 will try to intercede for you. If you learn on a Super 21, and there is no reason not to, you will be forever ruined for other aircraft because the bar that you will hold them to will be quite high. You will also, and relatively quickly, develop a bizarre, some would say creepy, love affair with a machine. You will buy it expensive baubles and costly accoutrements, it will enter in and dominate your thoughts. Many women are judged to be 'high maintenance', but nothing like a Super 21. Proceed carefully.

Get an MVP-50. Does it all and then some. The CDI will move when I upgrade my pilot side. My IA wouldn't let me take out the tach.

Has anyone used clay on their plane? I had a kid do my 911 with it and is was like a new car. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Does anyone here own the Mooney model (7103)? I still remain interested in it, but when I was looking to buy last year, I kept running into varying specs. At one point Neil Glaser (Pilot Mall) was selling (presumably his) used one for $800 and I was going to jump on it but there was disparity between the Milwaukee and DeWalt drill heads and batteries. I think MiniMax at one point had an under-powered unit and was offering up a choice. The difference in power heads was significant in cost.

That plane looks Super to me, great choice!

Help from Edison, eh?

Jeez, how big is that stroller?

The video on that site looked like a clip from a horror movie where bugs eat something. Be careful of the splash!

I would run, not walk, away from this plane. The items you listed along with the AD out of compliance tell me that this plane was not well-maintained. I bought The Mistress based on a telephone call to Don Maxwell. His shop had done the annuals on her for ten years. The year that the PO sold her to me, the annual was done by a local wrench and had no squawks (since it had not been flown). My first and second annual were squawk-free. All squawks since then have been my doing or just expected wear. My annuals are done by one of the last remaining IAs who knew Al Mooney. His comment after my first annual was: that is the driest engine I have ever seen. I get a computer printout of all the ADs, SBs, SOBs, etc., etc. every year. It tracks applicability based on time and equipment in the plane and compliance is initialed by my IA. Bruce Jaeger, who is a fanatic about Mooney airframe corrosion, gave me the thumbs up after he installed my Spatial Interior. He knows places where corrosion can start that even the saltiest of A&Ps have never seen. Now the kicker: The Mistress had one of the nastiest interiors and panels that you could find on a Mooney when I bought her. She had a gorgeous paint job that was done by one of the best shops in Texas. The POs money and health ran out before he could do the interior and panel. He was a fanatic about maintenance. The panel, in spite of it's age, was fully IFR qualified, with ILS and DME. I looked past the ragged to evaluate the important stuff and went with Don saying: she's a good aircraft. Good luck!

He said he would PIREP after he got the Bravo, but I checked before starting this thread. He may have gotten cold feet... ...or wifey caught wind of the plan

I am finding that I do not like the stripped and polished Mooney. It's just personal preference, but to me some planes look good and others don't. I think a polished Ercoupe is gorgeous. I guess I'll wait for the final photos outside in the sun.

Deb, thanks for transferring that! Now, any Mooniacs with one want to chime in?