N201MKTurbo

If you were unhappy with what happened, right after you landed, call TRACON on the phone, say who you are and where you landed. Ask them to have the controller who worked you call you back when they have time. Then you can talk about it. You may end up having coffee together talking about airplanes.

You probably had an A-11. It will fit on the yoke. I have enough parts to build one. I’ll have to put it together one of these days.

I bought mine on EBay about 25 years ago. I got a service manual for it and completely disassembled it, cleaned it and put it back together. It was the most complicated mechanical assembly I have ever done. The barrel grease was some strange mil spec that ended up crossing to Aeroshell #6. I needed a tiny dab of it. I used Möbius watch oil for everything else. The specified oil is nowhere to be found. I made a barrel winder out of a tap handle and a piece of copper pipe with a slot in it. It worked great. I got real good at sharpening tiny screwdrivers.

Just be happy it all turned out OK. The TRACON guys around here don’t want to get pilots in trouble, so let’s give them the same courtesy.

No it is in the panel. When I had my M20F I had an LC2 in the yoke. I had to modify it to fit.

I have a Waltham A-13A-1. I think it is the finest aviation clock ever made. http://walthamclocks.com/a-13a-1.html

They must have disconnected something in the trim system. There are a few places where you can get the front gearbox out of sync with the tail. In most cases, you will lose some trim travel. You need to get it straightened out.

BTW, I had an FAA inspector say you cannot inspect powder coated assemblies for cracks. If there is an inspection requirement, he said the powder coating needs to be stripped and reapplied to do the inspection.

An hour or two to disassemble all the gear. Two or three to put it all back together. About a week to strip and paint it all.

The difference between changing the pucks and completely disassembling the gear isn’t that much. Stripping and painting is tedious but not difficult. I have done it like 5 times. Use paint stripper, then scrapers and wire wheels and finish in the blast cabinet. In the past I would just prime with zinc chromate, but those days are gone. So you will have to find a good paint system. Painting tubes is tedious too, but the results are awesome. Buy all new hardware and bushings and you will have essentially new gear.

I have found the pistons wear more than the rings do. Most people just think about the rings sealing on the cylinders, but they seal on the piston as well. The top and bottom of the rings have to form a seal in the groves in the piston. I have found the groves get a taper to them after a while. If you are going to reuse the piston you should clean according to the service manual. It is very tedious. They don’t allow any kind of abrasive blasting. I have found tooth brushes, string and comet cleanser works fastest. Expect at least 1/2 hour per piston, if you are good.

It is possible all your oil consumption is coming from one cylinder. How do your plugs look?

You could pull the cylinders, replace the pistons and rings and re-hone the cylinders for a fraction of that amount. You could get the valves done too, (essentually an overhaul at that point) for about half of the amount above.

Thanks!

I had my left eye done a week ago and my right eye done Tuesday. I was afraid I couldn’t pass my flight physical with my eyes the way they were. My vision was 20/50 with glasses. I’m sitting here on my IPad without glasses and it is easy to read. The best surgery I ever had! They checked my vision on my left eye before they did my right eye. It was 20/20 without glasses. I was able to read the smallest line they showed me, so it was probably better than that. I got the standard lenses. I didn’t have any sedation during the procedure, (I had work to do when I got home) It was easy.

My wife has always wanted a plane with a toilet.

I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to make that connector reliable. The connector and circuit board are not strong enough for the job. I removed the connector and soldered a USB cable to the board. I drilled a hole in the case for the cable. It has been trouble free since.

You should be a supporter and posting in the vendor section.

The only catch is if the missing drawings specify an inflator method. You would need to use what is on the STC. BTW, what happened to page 2? It should be in your records.

I would contact the FSDO about the field approval route. Just send them an email about what you want to do. Try to give them something that could be considered approved data, or a path to get it approved. This will probably include drawings, structural analysis and aerodynamic analysis. You may want to have a conversation with a DER to find out what he would need. A friend of mine got a field approval for a structural mod to a Mooney. He had all the engineering complete before contacting the DER, so all the DER had to do was check his work. This was less than 1 AMU. If you paid the DER to do all the engineering, you would be paying him a lot more.

You just have to replace the flapper valve to get a full flush.

The question wasn’t what is smart or prudent. Everybody needs to figure that out for themselves. Back when strong crosswind landings were a daily occurrence, if I couldn’t track the runway with the rudder pinned to the floor, it was time to find a better runway. The OP asked a question. I answered it as best I could. Also, I never carried extra speed. I wanted that airplane to be done flying when the wheels touched down. As has been mentioned, if it takes extra speed to control the plane, you will lose control of it as you slow down. If you cannot track the runway, it is time to go around.

If it has the 40/1 gears and has been serviced regularly, it should be fine. Make sure your mechanic lets you see the gears.

The mod was designed to accommodate from 4 Lbs to 110 lbs. it went in 5 Lb increments. You could get finer increments by making the lead plates thinner. The structural analysis was done at the 110 Lbs. Rockets were very nose heavy.

I flew it like that, it was very easy to fly. I think he ended up with 35 Lbs. The plane had 3 prop strikes on landing before the mod. FWIW, I I flew the plane before the mod and it wasn’t the planes fault. My friend convinced the owner to buy a 172.