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I have bladders and still have over 1000 useful. I also have a few other heavier things that didn't come from the factory. 1pc belly, 201 window, full autopilot.

Yes, he had made the same post a while before the accident. Another member had even taken their J model up and did some climb test for comparison. It was fairly close in time, but I don't remember if it was weeks or a couple of months. Its possible he could have resolved it before the accident.. Try a takeoff or go around at 2500 it will make a big difference. I did it accidentally once. It took a few seconds to realize it wasn't climbing normally

Be careful, If it is not making 2700 rpm takeoff performance will suffer considerably. One of our former members posted the asking the same question and a few weeks later attempted an intersection takeoff. Unfortunately he isn't a member of any forums or flying anymore.

I started a separate thread about "Weight Loss". Even with bladders you can still have a plane with more useful load than it came with from the factory. http://mooneyspace.com/topic/14346-weight-loss/

Here are a few things that has been done over the years to lighten up my plane a little. I purposely left avionics off as every plane is different. None of these make sense to do just for the weight savings, but if the part needs replacing or gets replaced anyway might as well get the weight savings. All of them together add up. There are also lighter props available. Throw in the avionics and its up in the 50lb range. Remove Replace with Weight Savings Original Starter Lightweight Starter 10 Original Generator lightweight alternator 8 Oil cooler relocation Lasar kit 2.4 Bendix mags Slick Mags 3.5 Shock absorber nothing 2.2 factory gages+secondary monitor Primary monitor(JPI900) 6 Hartzell Governor H1 PCU5000 2.4 Total Weight Savings 34.5

Engine RPM. I think it was around $10

Try the manual mode. There is also an option in the config to use a different method.

Yes it's audio based. I've had trouble with it in various vehicles, some works some don't, but it has always worked in the plane.

Yes, I've been using engine rpm for a couple of years. It always matched the jpi.

I believe I've heard that there was some differences in the hinges and possibly the attach points. If someone has a later model parts manual they could check the pn of these and see.

Eric, I'm not sure who is using what other than all the low cost stuff is MEMS based, otherwise we couldn't afford it. The really high end stuff is fiber optic(FOG) and I don't believe it requires any other inputs to provide a stable out. From what I have saw on the market and what the presenters at the conference last year discussed the MEM devices still need an airspeed or gps to provide a stable signal. The displays they had setup, which was supposed to be some of the better MEMS devices available would only provide an accurate output for a couple of minutes if addition reference data was not provided. The chart below is from Dynons latest display and shows it still needing either an airspeed or gps input to provide attitude data. I believe the garmin and aspen panel mounts both require additional data also or it x's out the attitude. The sensors output rate which is continually integrated to give angle, so any error is cumulative and must eventually corrected for. Interestingly the 2600 mentioned above does not seem to require any additional input. MEMS is neat stuff, when I was in college we had a full semiconductor manufacturing lab in our EE dept, and people were just starting to play around with MEMS. I remember seeing a electric motor with gears and a clock hand that we grew and etched onto a wafer. It could only be seen with a microscope, but was really functional. The entire process is much like cooking. Bake, grow, mask, etch. Then repeat for each layer.

Same here, the Mooney is almost 50 now and it doesn't move as easy as it once did when younger.

Lasar has posted pictures in the mooney flyer before of them removing the wing and placing the entire plane in a shipping container to go overseas. They should be able to provide a quick quote. How do most insurance companies handle a across the pond ferry? Does it require a special exemption?

I think much of the problem comes from the cylinders being horizontal and the outlets on the side. This allows air to get trapped in the upper part of the cylinder. I replaced my original paramount cylinders with the newer style Cleveland cylinders. These have a extra passageway machined in the end to help get the air out. I used a $8 pump up sprayer from lowes garden dept filled with fluid to bleed mine. That was the basis of my suggestion to go ahead and replace all the seals and any questionable hoses in the system at once and be done with it rather that do them one at a time every 6 months.

The wing over at the end almost got him. Get off and away from the plane before it sinks.

The stratus and gdl-39 both used MEMS based accelerometers. These need correction for acceleration and use the gps for long term stability to the accelerometers. The accelerometers will slowly drift, but the slow drift is easily corrected by the gps. The gps can provide the long term correction and stability but cannot provide the high speed data updates needed to make things move smoothly. The accelerometers then provide the high speed updates that only need an occasional gps update to remain accurate. Here is one of the companies that presented at the conference I mentioned above. Their module was used in one of the non certified displays. I can't remember if it was Dynon or Grand Rapids. It was interesting to here them talk about the challenges of using mem based sensors. http://www.vectornav.com I have no idea what the RC Allen device uses.

Is it getting a good gps signal? I was at a sensor conference last year and there were a couple of aerospace companies there with ahrs modules. They all said forward acceleration had to be corrected for. Some were using a airspeed input, others were using a gps with higher update rates to determine acceleration. One had a flight simulator there and they would turn the gps data on and off showing the difference. The garmin device is using gps to compensate which will not be accurate with strong winds.

Send Craig (administrator ) a PM. He had his brought over a few years ago.

Is it completely dead, or just the display go out? I thought mine had completely quit last year, but then pulled the squelch and realized just the display was out. There was a internal fuse blown and a transistor in the hi voltage power supply to the display shorted.

On the F model it is an aluminum tube that comes down the pilot side wall of the luggage area and sticks out the bottom of the belly. There is a short length of plastic hose up in the overhead that connects it to the drain on the air scoop.

I've found that prc works well if you clean it good 1st and the safety it down tight.

Antenna, overhead air vent drain stopped up, windows

If your concerned about the accuracy of your tach download the Engine RPM app. It has always matched my JPI exactly.

The 1st goggle hit speaks for itself.

It's likely that the egt probe going bad. These take a lot of abuse in the exhaust stream. It's probably intermittent when the hot gas is applied to it.