jelswick

Congratulations! That's exciting and from the photo I saw online Googling the tail number, looks like a beautiful Mooney!

Last call for the Indianapolis Air Show event for the Mooney Ambassadors program Fri May 13th - Sun May 15th. We have 2 definite and one likely participants with their aircraft, but four slots for our static display. We'd really like 2 more confirmed participants that can have their aircraf there so that we can do a good showing of our Mooneys and the Mooney Ambassador program. I need to give them a final answer tomorrow (Monday 3/14) on final number of participants, number of passes needed and hotel room count, so if interested, please PM or email me at jelswick1@insight.rr.com or call me at 614-395-4513. We also welcome anyone who can come for one or more days to help out at the aircraft display. They anticipate 140,000-150,000 in attendance, so this can be a great showing for us!

Now that looks like fun!

Just need one more participant for our Ambassador event at the Indy Air Show May 13-15. Do we have anyone else in the OH, MI, IN, WI, KY, TN, WV, PA or other nearby states that would like to come spend Fri-Sun with our Mooneys at a great airshow? As Jolie mentioned, we'll have passes at the air show and they have very good discounted rates on the hotels. We have to get them a final answer on number of participants and hotel rooms needed asap. If interested, please let me know via PM so I don't miss the post or call me at 614-395-3708. Thank you.

Congratulations on your assignment Brian! That sounds like a great location! I wish I lived a little closer to where I could get good Schweinshaxe. Stuttgart was my birthplace as an army brat Eric, but my parents were not letting me drive much at that age and I was a little young to be in any flight clubs at that point.

Does he need 5 of any given part number or just 5 rockers to make it worth the setup of any mix. I had two made for the Aspen PFD and MFD in my 201 and am not real happy with them. Nothing functionally wrong, but they are rounded and don't completely seat the way the originals do against the panel. I'd like to see a picture of a sample of the finished product to see if they're better than what was made for my panel (the two done for me are not translucent either).

I think that's what our current administration has in mind Urs. Very sad.

So, if there's any chance it has ADS-B traffic, sounds like I might want to wait on the transponder replacement I had planned at this annual as well. If it's really that good, anyone interested in a used KX-165? I guess i'll need to also see the price before I'm ready to offer that out.

Just saw your photos Nick and you have quite the sweet 201 there too! Would love to have a few of you participate at the Indianapolis Air Show Mooney Ambassador event this May and hope to meet a lot of you at OSH this year!

In case I can't find one of the moving maps, there's a few others to find! Seriously, I just really like the redundancy aspect. If I get lost with this setup, I really can't claim any valid excuse. I WILL make the Good N Plenty restaurant a planned stop next trip out there. I have a feeling the guy I ferried from dropping his aircraft off for paint is likely to want a ride back out to get his aircraft; so I'll likely get the chance. And thank you Thinwing! You're Bravo is looking awfully sweet as well! The video is not via any of my talent...the app called Muvee Reveal is just excellent in simplifying the process. You basically pick your pictures and videos to include, sequence them in the order you want, pick a song to include under it from your music library (itunes or whatever), pick the style presentation, add intro and trailer text and it does the rest. So simple even I can do it! (I'm an IT Project Manager and hopefully good at it, but they don't want me touching lines of code!).

Having sold a lot of airplanes (all brands) and seeing what corrosion can do to them, I'm an every two years Corrosion X customer. I have it done every other annual and it's cheap protection vs the cost if you end up needing corrosion repairs. If you let corrosion take its toll, the repairs end up in the aircraft logs and that's one way to turn away a lot of potential customers as well.

Thanks Barry and Scott. No Good and Plenty restaurant this trip. There's actually a great pizza place within walking distance of the Smoketown airport and I'm not nuts about pizza, but theirs is really good...and the Amish buggys are tied up at the hitching posts just outside it. A pretty area of the country. We were too anxious to get back home knowing forecast was okay, but not improving either. And I'd love to help you with one Scott! While I'm not thrilled the boost pump cancelled a days flying for me, it really has been a gem from a maintenance perspective. I was used to a lot of maintenance from my '63 C getting it to the state I wanted it, but this one just goes annual to annual with just oil changes so far for about 4 years, so even though I uttered the words to myself "Mooney Pit" when it wouldn't pump, I'm overall thrilled with her. Her nickname will remain "Beautiful" for the time being. Have a great week!

The boost pump wasn't pumping this weekend and going in for annual this week... Since I couldn't fly, I instead worked on video stuff from the flight to Smoketown, PA a few weeks ago. Over 50 kt headwinds coming home, but 205 knot ground speed on the way there.

Eddie, I saw you'd signed up on the site and got your voice mail. Reposting the Mooney Ambassador post for the Indy Air Show so that you can find it. Hope you're able to make it. If so, that would leave one more slot open. Any others interested in the May 13th-15th Ambassador event at the Indy Air Show as display aircraft or helping out with the booth?

Posting again on the weekend thinking some may have missed the weekday posts to see if we have any midwest Mooney owners that would like to participate in the Indianapolis Air Show May 13-15th. We have four display slots for our Mooneys with two of those still open. It will be a great air show with 140,000-150,000 attendees expected. Also welcome anyone that can help with staffing the Mooney Ambassador booth without their aircraft on display. If interested, please let me know.

I was thinking of that with the weather Gods myself today Brian. Thanks, stay safe and look forward to when you're back here to do these!

I had a '63 M20C that had in '64 been totaled when the owner flew it into trees in the pattern (vfr on a non-vfr day). I'd wager a lot of money that by the time I got through with it, it was one of the nicest early C's out there. It was repaired right at that time and I had it go through service centers and my great local mechanic for a lot of money unfortunately, but it was in great shape. The maintenance shop in Miamisburg, OH said it looked cleaner inside than Mooneys they'd seen only 10 yrs old. Only point is I wouldn't get too worked up over prior damage history. Make sure the repairs were done correctly and if so, you can get some very good deals on very good aircraft. I personally feel better if the damage was over 10-20 yrs ago (more so a lot of hours) so that the repairs have proven themselves out, but that's just my personal preference if I were to buy one other than NDH again.

Would you be one of those two pilots getting married that weekend Hank? If so, perhaps she'd like to take her vows at the Indy Air Show? Kidding, and sorry you won't be there. You're very close, so l look forward to meeting and working with you on one of these in the future. Any others out there that would be interested in displaying your aircraft as one of four slots or supporting this ambassador event at the booth May 13-15th at the Indianapolis Air Show?

Thank you Jolie. Will you be sending them something with photos for the writeup or is that something I should try to provide? I'm fine with either way. And glad to hear you'll be joining the event 201 Driver. Do you have an email address I can use to coordinate with those of us that will be participating? You can send that via PM if you like. Can we find two more that can do this Fri-Sun event? It is a huge air show and should be a great opportunity for us to promote GA and Mooney!

I'm in! Thanks Jolie and I'll be glad to help as the coordinator for this one. This is a great air show and would like to see us have all four slots filled. I'm ordering the Mooney garage banner for this and if we can find someone that can provide a shade tent for the display, that will be very helpful.

I use Shamrock Air Service (Shane Young) at KDLZ, Delaware Municipal Airport. He found more things on my first Mooney than the Mooney Service Center did. He always sounds disappointed if he finds a bigger ticket item needing attention and I appreciate that rather than sounding flippant about my cash. He also stays up at night worrying about anything he might have missed. I feel bad for him about that, but feel good that he takes it that seriously. He's maintaining quite a few Mooneys these days including mine. Not a service center, but I definitely recommend him for any GA aircraft maintenance.

Thanks Ken. I'm getting that fuel burn ROP, so that's the difference.

Thank you Laytonl for your fuel burn post. I've always been at about 11.5-12 gph at 25 squared and thought that might be high compared to others reporting lower, especially when selling, but that is typically what I see when cruising at our normal altitudes of 5,000-9,000. I can get a little lower above that, but as one of those nasty smokers, I don't generally do that without oxygen.

I borrowed and finally down to just over $50K financed in mine. I'm happy I did or I'd have never owned one. It's great if you can buy it outright, but not all of us can. They'll finance out to 20 yrs on these and I think that's a good idea and then just throw any extra cash you have at it and it should be done early. I'm looking at about 3 yrs to mine being paid off, but would have hated to delay my ability to fly her until I could have done it with cash. I agree you shouldn't overextend yourself, but if your comfortable with the finance payment and think you can throw extra at it to pay it off early, then go for it and don't wait. Too many of us, myself included wish we'd have started flying many years earlier than we did. But, i do agree, you really need to plan about $1K free and clear/month on the Js. My C model required close to, but not quite that amount. It was a much lower financed amount, but it required more in maintenance. Seems this about a $750-1,000/month addiction and I'm prepared to hock a kidney if it ever comes to that to keep it!

Scary stuff I'd say. My Mode C is going intermittent at this point and have 45T scheduled to go in for annual the first week of March. I'm going to have to replace the transponder and am thinking either the Garmin GTX 327 or the 330. The 327 is less expensive by quite a bit, but would love the traffic and the interface to the Aspen unit. I'm not having luck finding the TIS shut-down dates on the web other than from a few years ago. Does anyone know whether the TIS sites are going to be up long enough to make the GTX-330 worth the extra cost?