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I’d consider KGIF as a park and drive alternate for SnF. Great facilities, I recall good fuel prices, rental cars and an easy drive.

Also it ain’t difficult to remove a Mooney cowling one person. A bit more difficult with a three blade. But this is a baby bath water issue. The plane needs to be decowled either way. This appears to be @Frank Mooneys plane with the cool panel. Maybe he can provide some insight.

If you want the softest material possible head down to your local Joan fabric. Get a yard or two of cotton flannel. Cut it up. Use it once. Less damaging than microfiber. Don’t look at microfiber under a microscope - it looks like tiny chopped up soda bottles.** ** not really but microfiber has a big breadth in terms of quality. A very high quality microfiber cloth is unlikely to scratch. The crap you buy in autozone is likely to scratch When I want to polish I got some acrylic polish from the people at LP aero plastics.

One other thing I’ve found about edge lighting at night - perspective of course changes with the runway width. But something else that I didn’t really encounter until those LED runway lights came into fashion - they’re on posts of varying heights - in Norwood (OWD) I remember you’d land at night and the light posts were like a foot or 18” taller - so you’d get this feeling of sinking underwater as you went almost eye level with the edge lights

Anthony that’s pretty funny. Rest of the story is I had the stall warning going off for a little longer than usual, attitude a little higher than usual and a was a couple of feet high in retrospect, losing energy. Higher attitude made it a little harder to see over the nose to the end of the runway and there is a bit of a hump in the middle of it. I added in a bunch of power prior to doing my bounce (which was the right move). I ended up glancing to the side for the runway edge lights because I wasn’t seeing well over the nose or getting anything peripheral vision wise. Just not ideal overall.

I was flying home last night with the Mrs. landed at night and according to her it was “your worst landing ever.” I told her not so ! I’ve had much worse landings and she begged to disagree. Anyway eyes out front to the end of the Rwy like usual, I literally lost the runway end lights and all visual cues, didn’t have a great peripheral visual cue and landed a real clunker more by Braille than by any form of superior piloting skills. What I realized ex post facto is my 8-degree LED landing / tractor light is not very bright and I’ve got a single par46 bulb without any cast laterally (ie it doesn’t help at all with peripheral visual cues). It’s hard to taxi let alone land with the thing (... although I’ve made plenty of landings when my incandescent landing light used to burn out on a schedule (planned night landing = bulb burning out according to Murphy)). Wife says use your basic tools first and the landing light is a safety feature, so get a new light please. Anyone got a recommendation for a bright LED that has a maybe 10-12 degree cast that won’t burn a hole in my wallet?

LORAN antennas also are bent whip style.

I have also stolen water from the FBO to do my windshield :-). The fancy bottled stuff works best of course ;-p

That’s a cannon plug. It’s OEM. It’s how Mooney labeled bundles of individually labeled wires that shared a common function. It should be on your wiring diagram.

Water and my bare hand.

Aerostar propjet mu-2

Why do embaers and Concorde’s have yokes upside down?

Yup. And so it goes.

You could remove it from its base presumably-but would need to be able to control the link ends so it doesn’t bind and make you dead. Or just remove yoke keep the shaft and install something like a permanent iPad mount that would stick out less than the yoke by a few inches and not be included in the sword category.

Depends - I love my Mooney. I like the way it flies. I like the efficiency. However if I could get a cirrus with a UL increase, 5th seatbelt, TKS, and a chute I would jump ship. Just like my lovely said no more 20 year old sport coupe with a family and the SUV is now sitting in the driveway.

It’s not. I should clarify. Your wing root seal is fashioned from duct tape. It’s a heavy duty outdoor type. It’s not like beech wings that use a silicone rubber gasket. The duct tape keeps water out. Over that goes the wing root fairing. Mine is aluminum and fastened by sheet metal screws. I know from experience - the paint shop I used didn’t tape or remove the fairing. They just stripped and sprayed with a power washer. The stripper dissolved my duct tape seal. Got water into my taped off cabin and caused mold. The worst was they wouldn’t fess up to it. Fortunately my avionics and wing spar didn’t get corroded but this was a setup for a potentially totaled aircraft. Paint stripper and water are a potentially dangerous mix - the paint shop needs to know what they’re doing.

Also strippers must be kept from wing root seal. Best to remove the fairing, remove the duct tape, tape off and re seal.

Be careful with the install that you don’t sever the autopilot output from the 430 when you are wiring it to the GAD29B. That happened once in another thread I recall. Have G5 STC install manual (and an experimental one for reference - I found the compliment each other), as well as the interconnect diagrams for the 430.

I’ll take a picture of my A3B6 when I change the oil.

Shielded wires for your strobes. Eliminate ground paths. Bring everything to the battery or a ground block then to the battery. That should help but no guarantee. I put mine in the wing to avoid this issue.

You can do it using a digital inclinometer but you need to be able to get the reference chord correct. I’m not sure how easy this would be.

I saw an ‘82 J with some decent avionics but a run out motor listed for $140 the other day. Egads.

Nope. Doesn’t sound smart. Sorry.

@M20Doc Clarence et al. I’ve got an incandescent solid burning Grimes housing for my aft while tail Nav. I imagine the aero lites can be a replacement for that. Will need to double check. I’m also wondering about the good old coffee grinder - can you pop a aero-lites replacement in there? Thanks

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