BaronSmith

Quote: jax88 I used Falcon in Kerrville in about the same position (120 total hours, none in a complex). They asked for 10 transition and 10 more before carrying passengers.

Thanks for all the replies on Insurance companies everyone. Carusoam: Yes, the policy states 50 hours. It is excessive... Though the dual as stated in the policy can be with my father who has hundreds of hours in Mooneys. I got my complex endorsement in two lessons with my instructor after we bought 82W, and got my high performance endorsement in my instructor's friend's F33A a few days after, so hopefully a different insurance company won't require as many dual hours. We'll contact some of the mentioned insurance companies tomorrow and see what they have to offer.

What insurance companies are most of you using to get insured with low time? I have just over 120 total now with about 26 dual in the Mooney, and our current insurance is wanting 50 hours dual. Is there a company that anyone would recommend that may insure me with the 26 hours dual I already have?

I really enjoyed that rebuttal! It will be interesting to see if the first commenter responds back...

24 hour self service at Twin Lakes Airport, 8A7, near Winston Salem, NC, is $4.35 a gallon. Pretty much average for self serve around this area.

Thanks Theo! Yeah it's always good to know some other local Mooney owners. We're hoping to go to a Mooney fly-in in the Carolinas or Southeast soon too and meet more.

You're new interior is absolutely gorgeous Parker. The attention to detail and end result make it look like, or better than a new plane. Like Philip also mentioned, the avionics in it are mouth watering, you have an incredible 201.

Thanks Scott! Yeah we really lucked out on finding such a clean C. That's great that your son is already getting some flying practice too. I started a flying club at my high school last year and helped a couple friends get started on their training, and a few others are aiming to go the Air Force route too. 82W is so much faster than the little 152. With all that extra horsepower I actually feel the p-factor on take off now too, haha. Ned: That IO-720 Baron sounds like a monster of an airplane. The fuel flow difference between that and the owners previous Mooney must be huge. But yes, enough of Barons and back to talking about these great Mooney's

A P Baron would be a great plane; but with my name saying something like "Baron, five eight Bravo Sierra" every time I transmitted, would seem very pompous .

Quote: DaV8or Wait... I thought he bought a Mooney, not a Baron!!?? Go back and look at the pictures again. Barons have two engines and the tail points the wrong way.

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! That's great to hear about some other Mooney legacies too. I think once a family member gets a Mooney, the desire for it's speed and efficiency is contagious. My father and grandfather still keep some old pictures and history of the Mooney's they owned, and I can find out the N Numbers and if a current owner of it is on here, maybe share some of its old history. I know some of the n numbers are N9522M, a 67 Exec, N201HC, a 77 201, and N231AS, a 79 231. Jim: I'm honored if I'm the youngest person here, and I've got about a month left before I become 19, and I certainly can learn a lot from everyone here. Thanks for the compliment on my photography too; though I was kind of rushing to catch the sun before it set. Mitch: My father would agree with you on the 210 being one of his favorite planes. He owned N732VR for about 20 years, and loves to brag about how you can fill the tanks and haul 1000lbs of people and bags, and pretty much anything you could fit in there. It was a great plane. But I have to admit... The Mooney seems a lot more fun to me; and I'm loving every second of flying it and even just cleaning it up and making it look nice. Thanks again all! I'm so happy with 2682W.

Hi Everyone, My name is Baron and I recently joined this forum while looking for a Mooney to purchase with my father. I can already see what a resource this forum is based on the number of searches I made while browsing for perspective Mooneys, and how many answers I found here. I received my private last year right at my 18th birthday. I grew up in the backseat of my father's 77 Centurion and have loved aviation for as long as I can remember. Escalating fuel prices led my father to sell the 210 back in 2005, but when I wanted to get my license we bought the 152, and now that I've logged some time we were both ready to get into a faster airplane, (my father especially after all those Centurion hours). My dad learned to fly in my grandfather's Executive back in 1971, and owned that Executive for a few years back in the seventies, and he will probably chime in on this forum too eventually. My grandfather also owned around 5 Mooney's during his flying career, everything from a couple Execs to a 231, so my family has a love for Mooneys and my father has a few hundred hours in them; and I think being a Mooniac is in my blood because when it came time to sell the 152 we both set our sights on a Mooney. We found our "new" 1966 Mooney M20C last week and completed the deal Saturday. The previous owner even flew it down from Ohio to nearby Chapel Hill for us to look at it, then left it in Chapel Hill this past week due to instrument weather and the Previous owner being a VFR pilot, and during that time we had a satisfactory prebuy completed, and then on Saturday flew the Mooney up to Newark, Ohio and back to its new home at Twin Lakes Airport in Advance, NC. The M20C we found is a 1966 with approximately 2280ttaf and 50 on a fresh overhaul and Hartzell two-bladed top prop. As far as avionics go it has a King audio panel, KX155, KX135 GPS Comm, King digital transponder, and a big KMD150 moving map GPS (Which I love now after playing with it for a couple days). I'm already working on my Complex Endorsement and logging the dual hours required for insurance and love how it flies. The speed is shocking after the 152's performance and I even like the focus and planning it requires to slow down for landing, and I love the manual gear and flaps. After a flight with my in structor yesterday I was fortunate enough to be invited along on a flight in a 201 that he just completed an annual on. The 201 even had the exact same paint scheme and colors as 82W, except for the N numbers being up higher on the fuselage. I was surprised with how similar the 201 seemed to the M20C, but I sure loved that modern panel and extra room in the backseat; although for my father and my mission the M20C is perfect. I snapped a few pictures to share of 2682W for this forum after cleaning it up last night after a good day of flying, and attached a picture of it in flight from the previous owner. It looks so good just sitting still, and flies so well that it makes the old 152 seem sloppy. I cannot wait to log many, many hours in 82W, and to get to know other "Mooniacs".