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If you just vfr and need something cheap to drive a autopilot buy something like a a KLN 89 and do a vfr only install. It just consist of hooking up power, gnd and coax. These can be found for under $500.

I don't think the power being reduced from 4 to 2.4 watts would cause the range reduction that is being described.

Mic low should be to the barrel not the ring. Ring carries the audio

The ptt is soldered across the tip and barrel terminals of the mic connector. The audio is then carried on the ring terminal. The tip and barrel is the ptt signal and mic low on newer stuff but is just ground on some of the really old stuff that doesn't have a separate return path. Essentially your handheld mic has its own switch which is connected in parallel to your ppt button.

According to Mooney it serves no useful purpose. Shock Removal.pdf

Mags are not a DC system. There is a magnet with a north and South Pole which rotates by a coil. This produces an AC waveform which is the interrupted by the points opening. The positive half of the AC waveform fires two of the plugs and the negative half fires the other two. It is not rectified. The mag input shaft makes 2 complete rotations to fire all the plugs so the firing would be pos, neg, pos, neg. these are the coupled to the distributor block with a 2:1 gear ratio.

I've saw some previous post speculating how insurance companies might view the new Basic Med. Here is Avemco's position on it. https://avemco.com/information/blogs/basicmed.aspx

Spruce sells rebuild kits for the 10-49. They were around 20 each.

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These price drops just gets their parts more in line with PMA replacement part prices from ECI. I doubt they will drop prices on parts such as cylinders that have no PMA competition

Weldon has a PMA replacement now that doesn't require the kit from mooney. Unfortunately they increased the price of it last year by 150%. The place up in Michigan that rebuilds dukes advertises them as a constant duty pump after overhaul. Not sure what they beef up to make that claim.

It was likely used for flight testing or static load testing.

AC 43.13 ch 11 will answer some of your questions. In some instances it is perfectly acceptable to replace the pins and connectors on the end of the harness with the ones for the new radio. In other cases there may be some problems with this. Old systems used airframe ground for return. Newer stuff provides its own low path for the return which is not the same ground. Old wires are often very stiff and difficult to work with depending on age. A lot of the older stuff was wired with larger wire and you will not be able to get it into the new high density connectors on the new stuff.

I know someone who ordered a new Mooney at Sun-in -Fun 2015. Mooney missed delivery deadline after deadline for several months. When they finally got the plane ready on the last day of the year they did go ahead and declare it a 2016 model.

We stayed at runawayhaven.com. It has runway privileges and is the second house from the beach on the runway. There are no cars on the island, but the house comes with golf cart, couple of kiaks, grill ext. Look at the salty approach website I posted above for other houses an additional info.

It's a proportional valve. With 0 volts applied it is in the center position and directs vac equally to the left and right side. If a positive voltage is applied it increases vac to one side and reduces it to the other. With a negative voltage it does the opposite. The amount it directs to one side or the other depends on the amount of voltage applied. It's also counterbalance it isn't affected by bumps or turns. Brittian also sells a bi100 control box for another autopilot system they manufacturer that has a valve inside it that operates in a very similar fashion. There was another member a few months ago who was able to get a field approval to substitute the valve in the bi100 box. These are readily available and cheap.

I have 2-M2's at work and a personal one at home. They are one of the better 3d printers available. One has the factory dual head, the other has a custom dual head. The factory dual head leaves a lot to be desired, mostly due to the second print head dribbling as it hovers over the print area. The ooze shield also slows the printing time considerably.

We flew our F model to Captiva a few years ago. I posted a write up in one of the 1st post in the vacation section a few years ago. Just be on speed and be ready for the crosswind. I have the contact info for a rental located on the corner of the airstrip and beach if anyone is interested. It's a very layed back island and much cheaper than other parts of fl. www.saltyapproach.com

I don't believe they can stop this, it is the result of congress passing a law and the president signing it. If it is delayed then after 1 year you could still fly under the provisions of the law.

From your original post it seems like you are saying the red sealent is likely the original sealant from Mooney. If this is the case or if the sealant was legal when applied the the only way it can be deemed illegal is by the FAA issuing AD against it. Does this ad exist?

These are often airlocked when reinstalled and difficult to prime even with a vac pot. Getting it as full of oil as possible during reassembly will make the priming easy.

I have some of the earlier ones. I opened them up 4 or 5 years ago to replace some of the cork gaskets that were leaking. The gaskets had been previously over tightened. They appeared to still be in good shape and soft and pliable. The main concern is that the PMA remainin in place and that if Griggs isn't interested in supporting it then they write a letter to the bladder manufacturer releasing them from the wording of their contract that prevents them from selling directly. O&N had a lot of other STC's that are probably of much more value to the buyer. It may have been that they had to buy all of them to get the ones they really wanted.

If you have to shovel snow now it really will not matter because they will have already closed all the roads and businesses in town. The last snow/ice a few years ago shut everything down for 3 days. Any hint of ice down here and everything closes up.

For certification purposes the tube would have to withstand 3.8g's of loading as a minimum. It's possible that mooney had an internal requirement that is higher than that (perhaps 4.5 or higher) Rocket eng could have then decided that they didn't wish to keep the extra margins and that 3.8 was good enough for them. There is pretty good evidence mooney did add extra margins, look at the one that flew into the storm. Rocket could have simply decided to cut into these margined a small amount and may very well still be well above 3.8g's. Its also possible that that their engine mount distributes the loads in the airframe in a slightly different manner that the original factory one. It does have asditional attach points.

I've made one before for a different plane. You will need a form (pipe) that has the shape of the mooney edge, some duct tape and a shop vac. Essentially you place the pipe where the leading edge is and then wrap the aluminum around it 1/2 the way and thentape it up like a pouch so it is airtight. Connect up the shop vac and let it suck the air out. The aluminum will pulled down tight on the form and take its shape. The vac will only take a few seconds. I'm unsure if the mooney leading edge is a simple radius or more complex. There used to be several u-tube video's and detailed write ups online that shows step by step how to do this.