1964-M20E

Wow I'm glad it was a relatively quick and easy fix and everything worked out for you.

Corrosion X makes a system to fog the plane. A little expensive for one person. However, your mechanic may have the setup to do this. A half gallon of corrosion X will last you for years.

All of the opening up (removing covers, pans etc.) cleaning, lubing, greasing and closing up the patient is all in the realm of owner preventative maintenance. The actual inspection is for the I/A. However, once you have done this several times and walked around with the I/A you will lean what to look for and when the I/A shows up you can give him a rundown on what you think you need to do before he even looks at it. He may find more things, and he may tell you you can defer some items. If this is the first annual with your plane remove all the covers and using a rag with mineral spirits and corrosion X on it wipe all the interior surfaces you can reach in the wings. You will be surprised to see the amount of dirt that comes out of the wings. Then you can do a complete corrosion X application. It is a good experience to do an owner assisted annual. If something happens when you are away from home, and it will, you have some knowledge to tell the mechanic at the field where you are stranded what is wrong and what is needed to fix it.

I would like to go but my manual gear motor is striped out and in need of an inspect and repair as necessary or an overhaul. I'll find out the middle of December mechanic I mean doctor goes in and looks around. I wont be flying by myself until the end of March at the earliest. I don't plan on getting in the plane until the end of Feb. We will have to schedule a repeat of this meting in April. I did go flying the other day with my buddy and I was able to work the gear pretty well needed just a little help to put the gear down.

Double check the mode select button on the turn coordinator. This is the button to select heading mode or track mode. Make sure it springs out after you push it in. Simple low cost item before digging deeper.

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I do that and I wipe the inside of the wings down with a rag soaked in corrosion X and mineral spirits. You would be surprised the amount of gunk you get out of there even doing it almost every year.

Owner assisted annuals are the way to go if you have even the slightest bit of mechanical capability and an IA who will allow it and work with you. Don't forget to pay the IA well for his time too. Owner assisted annual with inspection only by the IA should fall in the $1000 to $1500 IMHO. My former mechanic would always ask at some point during the annual what she was there for. I would always tell her because you can sign the logbook. Yes annuals do take time. I generally take a day off on a weekend to open up the plane. I start cleaning and greasing, change the oil and filter and everything else that needs it. I will let the IA know the plane is ready. Once the inspection is complete we discuss what needs attention. Generally I already know that by the time I have finished cleaning and tell him what I'm going to be doing to get his buy in.

Yes this will be good. I think the reason for going to 3 years has been achieved. I remember they wanted to get a number of old registrations of derelict aircraft off the registration rolls. Now that we have gone through few 3 year cycles we can extend the registration period to a more reasonable period. I would have used an even number like 6, 8 or 10 years. Registrations used to be good until canceled by the owner or the aircraft was sold.

With that long of wait list they need to build more hangars. Looking at google maps there appears to be many T-hangars there already and there is plenty of room to add additional hangars. How many are on the wait list?

Scare the heck out of you when you start looking for what just wen boom.

mooneychart.pdf Is this what you are talking about.

you started the conversation. I fly WOT unless landing or boring holes in the sky. When I have a head wind I want to get though it as fast as possible and yes I will try different altitudes to see if I get any better ground speed.

I'm not sure but the F uses 2 sensors, inboard and outboard, and the C uses one inboard sensor. There maybe a difference in the resistance each has. I would try them first. Remove the wire on the sensor and hook it to the new sensor ground the new sensor and move it make sure fuel gauge is moving correctly between E and F

Mike Sounds good. How many people are we talking about? Maybe when they show up we can coordinate flying them around. I would let them fly left seat if they are good experienced Mooney pilots which I'm sure they are. A little coordination and a couple of 3 to 4 hour flights and they can be almost anywhere in the USA flying themselves but with the owner in the right seat assisting.

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I've used thin 1/16 thick, closed cell foam about 1" wide, with adhesive on wine side and trim as necessary. Works well and easy to remove and put the cover back in place.

yes but in my opinion you need to trim them down they are too big initially.

Verify the field wire and the ground wire to the alternator are in good condition and the connections are tight.

Would that happen to be a retread? Looks like the inner tread just pealed off.

Why limit just to kids scale it up, put an Adirondack back and cup holder it. It would make for some interesting hangar flying.

Rat socks are so small and I always end up with 3 after washing them. I never can find the last one.

At least in Robinson helicopters they are transitioning all older models that were "wet wing tanks" to bladders for increase fire safety in the unlikely event of a crash. I'm not sure if the bladders in our planes add any such value but Robinson has seen value added in the helicopters.

I have the bladders and they were installed by the previous owner. When I bought the plane it did not make much difference to me except that at they are the 54 gallon version not the 64 gallon. I have owned planes with wet wing and bladders each about the same no rela prefence. I would choose the most economical, fastest and closest option to you.

So it is up to the lessor and lessee to determine what is reasonable and discriminatory as well as the unit of service.