N201MKTurbo

I was in Oshkosh in 95 or so and watched Roy Lopresti do a complete aerobatic routine in a Mooney..

I wonder what is safer? Looking out the window for traffic, or looking at a computer screen for traffic...

My M20F would roll when I was 28 years old. Now that I'm 56 I don't think it will anymore.

FWIW If the switch is intermittent, pull the button off and spray a generous amount of tri-flo into the switch. Work the switch a bunch of times and then wipe off the excess tri-flo. It will probably fix the switch and save you a bunch of trouble.

At Casper Air Service they had 6 inch pipes filled with concrete with sections of car tires bolted to them for door stops on their ramp side doors. The owner said that it was the only thing they came up with to keep the doors from breaking when people opened them on windy days.

The software on the ground side could easily send unsolicited traffic data every XX seconds that it hasn't had a specific request for traffic. It seems like unsolicited traffic would be more important then weather. Traffic changes much faster then weather. I'm sure there have been many meetings at the FAA arguing about these things. As a software developer I learned long ago, no matter how cool you think your software is, if your customer doesn't use it as you intended then you need to change it to the way the customer uses it, no matter how stupid you think the customer is.

I always stand next to the prop when I'm moving it, and just move it by the prop tip. That way if the engine pops I can get my hand out of the way before the prop comes around. When moving the prop on a hot engine always assume it will start and be happy when it doesn't.

Or it is SA1BV20 with a black shaft, Both are specified in the Mooney parts manual. http://www.alliedelec.com/search/productdetail.aspx?SKU=70152433

It is an Electro Switch SA1RV20 http://www.alliedelec.com/search/productdetail.aspx?sku=70152432

It is an Electro switch SA1RV20 http://www.alliedelec.com/search/productdetail.aspx?sku=70152432

When the wind is that strong your ground speed is very low. This day my ground speed on touchdown was zero! I could have landed in a parking space.

When the wind is that strong your ground speed is very low. This day my ground speed on touchdown was zero! I could have landed in a parking space.

So I saw on the news that there was a fatal automobile accident in Phoenix last week. I have decided to stop driving because the risks are just to great.

My plane has an air oil seperator from M20 Turbos.

My plane has an amazingly low oil consumption. It uses about a QT in 50 hours. The problem is it leaks like a sieve. All that oil leaks out and makes a godawful mess of my plane. I just pulled all the cylinders and I'm replacing all the thru-studs. The engine was factory reman just before I bought the plane. I figured it would have a good crankcase. I was wrong! It had two 0.001 oversize studs, one 0.002 oversize stud and one 0.010 oversize stud. I'm replacing them all with new ones. It is amazing how much mess a QT of oil can make in 50 hours.

A valid concern. You could have someone run the engine up while feeling the pressure at the dip stick.

It really won't hurt anything to run it that way, except for contaminating the oil a bit faster. Run it for a few more hours and if it doesn't get better, you will need to pull the cylinders..

I would encourage you to do long cross countries, that is what flying is all about. Just make sure the weather is OK. You will be surprised how far you can go VFR. You are never going to learn to fly reading a book. Not that I'm discouraging you from learning all you can, but the only way to make sense of it all is to get out there.

That cable isn't that hard to replace. Just buy a non-vernier cable, put it in, import the plane, put the vernier cable back in and sell the other cable on EBAY.

OK, if the flaps are bleeding up, it must be the check valve in the flap pump. There is a small pin that the cable pushes to push the ball off its seat. It is not an o-ring problem. Either the ball or seat is dirty or the seat is damaged. You can repair the seat by re-coining it by putting the ball in the seat and whacking it real hard with a punch and hammer (on the bench not in the plane). BTW don't stretch or replace the spring on the check valve ball, or your flaps won't work at high elevation airports.

No, it does. The fuel gets squirted out of the small orifice. The airflow through the injector atomizes the fuel stream as the fuel pases through the larger orifice. The airflow is caused by the lower absolute pressure in the cylinder's intake port. In a NA engine the air comes through a small screen on the injector. In a Turbo engine the air comes from the turbo. In either case there should be the same air pressure differential across the injector as there is across the throttle plate.

Lets see on my practical I had to do a dye penetrant check on a spinner, run a line of rivets on two scraps of sheet metal. Preflight and start a Baron. Do a compression check and time the mags on the same Baron. Fill out a 337 for an air filter change. Do a W/B for a helicopter. Rewire the starting circuit on an APU/GPU from a schematic. Describe all the components on an old jet engine. And we talked about regulations for about an hour.

So what you are saying is that the debris is coming from somewhere between the inlet screen in the servo and the injectors. This leaves the injector servo which could have deteriorating seals or diaphragms, the flow divider diaphragm. The hoses and a fuel flow sensor, if it is between the servo and flow divider. If some thread sealant like “Fuel Lube” or Teflon tape were used it could be washing out and clogging the injectors.

The real limiting factor in the Mooney is the rudder. If the rudder peddle is all the way to the floor and you cannot straighten out the plane then it is too much crosswind. You will need to find another runway. Another thing you can do is angleize on the runway. If the wind is from the right, land on the left edge of the runway and roll out towards the right side of the runway. This only works on wide runways.

I have an M-20 turbos system, which is just a fancy version of the Rajay system. I have the Lycoming turbo injectors with the reference lines coming from the intercooler. The only filter is the intake air filter. The intake/compressor side of the system is always very clean except for a little oil downstream from the turbo. I have never had the problem you describe. Is it possible your injector air hoses are deteriorated? Where is the clog at the small fuel orifice or at the larger fuel/air orifice? If it is at the small orifice it must be coming from the fuel system. If it is at the larger orifice it is probably coming through the air line.