N201MKTurbo

I would verify your audio panel, or whatever is driving your cabin speaker, cab drive a 4 ohm speaker. It will put more of a load on the output amplifiers. As far as the alert speaker is concerned, I would be more concerned with matching the impedance than the part number. If it fits, then it should be OK. Im not familiar with the tone generator, is it a purchased part, or a Mooney creation? If you can get the specs for it you can see what speaker it was designed for. If you replace an 8 ohm speaker with a 4 ohm speaker, it will be louder. Or more distorted if the amp isn’t up to driving a 4 ohm speaker.

I have locking collars, but what’s the point? If they leak down, it lands on the wheels. If the wheels are off the axels and gear doors don’t hit the ground with the jacks all the way down. If you are building home brew jacks, keep these things in mind.

I have also seen this kind of leak when the valve stem isn’t correctly lined up with the hole. It will cause stress on the stem and it will crack around the stem.

Inflating them with nitrogen means you only have to inflate once a year instead of every few months. It has nothing to do with leaking down over the course of a flight.

I have found these kind of leaks happen when you get a fold in the tube. It causes tiny little cracks at the crease in the fold. If you reuse the tubes for a long time this gets easier to do because the tubes expand over time while pressurized. If you talc them well, inflate them , then let all the air out to let them move into place before the final inflation, this doesn’t happen. Installing them without talc greatly increases the chance because the tube will stick to the inside of the tire.

It showed a large number of crashes at Phoenix Sky Harbor (KPHX). If you read the details, the vast majority are ground collisions between airplanes or airplanes and ground vehicles. I think these should be filtered out.

My one balloon adventure was with a coworker who had a balloon. She had not flown it in a couple of years because her inflater fan was broken. I said “if I fix it can we go flying?” She said OK. So I fixed it. And she got a crew together and we went out to fly it. We inflated the envelope and walked inside to inspect it. She was showing me how to inspect the fabric. She would grab some fabric in each hand, bring her hands together and then pop them apart. On the third inspection, a six foot rip happened. She looked at me and said “well, there is no flying today” I don’t think she ever flew again.

Must have had an engine failure.

Isn’t that a normal landing for them?

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It confirms that no planes have ever crashed into my house.

Too many bottles of water will reduce your range….

Bottle of water, small can of Pringles and a credit card.

WOT is 32 inches. The MP red line is 30 inches. I have tried running it way over square. It started detonating at 29 in and 1900 RPM. I reduce power with mixture.

I do pretty much the same thing. Once I get to altitude, I reduce MP and RPM to 25, 2400, then pull the mixture till the power falls off, set the MP to 28 and then mixture to 1500 TIT. Then don’t touch the mixture and prop till I park the plane. Unless I need to go around, then I push the throttle up, retrim and put the gear up, then advance the mixture and prop then open the cowl flaps.

Ya know, if you practice the best advice from this thread and optimize everything to the max it will probably get you to your destination a minute earlier.

I flew a turbo Saratoga to New Orleans last year. It was faster than my turbo Mooney. I was surprised. At 10000 feet, it was doing 170 KTS at 14 GPH

Mostly just me. One of my IFR crossings was with my girlfriend. Her son was in daycare. The weather turned IFR and I said we would have to spend the night, she went ballistic. And said we had to get back so she could get her son. So I filed and off We went. I only had bottle with one mask, so I said we would share it. She refused and said I should use it. The flight was uneventful. BTW, My personal minimums were to not fly over the rocks at night or IFR….

I did my first 3000 hours flying out of Denver with an NA M20F. There was nowhere I couldn’t go. Including a few IFR hops across the rocks at 16000. But now I have a turbo and it defiantly makes things easier.

I wonder if they installed the grommet backwards.

I see what you are saying. Have you called Sky Tec and asked them?

It’s really hard to tell from the pic you sent, but I would look at the prop governor. It can drip down there and it would only leak while running. When they leak, they usually leak a lot because of the high pressure.

Take it to a screen printing company and have them redo it.

We are probably talking about the same plane.