1964-M20E

I have the selector switch for GPS or NAV-2 in mine and it was there when the IFD540 was installed it is still there no questions asked about it.

You most likely will be fine I'm 6-2 and fit fine. Head room maybe just lean the seat back some. I think taller pi9lts fit better in the Mooney than shorter one so you are not on top of the instrument panel unless of course you get the pedal extensions. welcome aboard

should be no problem I've flown many times with my side arm concealed and I know sometimes it is visible getting in and out of the plane.

That is for the all electric version of Mooney but you have to connect it to China like it says on the label and you need a long extension cord.

When I went to install my shoulder belt low and behold the clamps were already there. Really I guess someone in the past removed the shoulder belt?????? This took a long dreaded job and made it much easier. No inertial reals so during flight the shoulder belt is removed for comfort and to switch tanks.

When filing plan I start with direct airport to airport on skyvector (I like to do my planning on a full screen) then I will adjust my route to miss restricted areas, and then MOAs if it is not too contorted of a route. Certain areas if you fly them often enough (i.e. the gulf coast New Orleans to Florida) you get to know certain things the controllers like and then you just start filling them. As for departures or arrivals I genially do not file any of those I will look the ones that are published and then take a best guess as to which one I might get even though I'll put no sids no stars in my remarks column of the flight plane. I will then usually pick a way point or 2 in that procedure and add them to my filed flight plan so if I do get a sid or star I already have one or more of the points in my flight plan and I believe it helps ATC out some too. Another trick especially if you are flying with an IFR GPS is to pick the procedure you want and the way point you want to start the procedure from load it into your flight plan on the GPS and then request that from ATC when you are getting close. Most of the time they will clear you to the starting way point and for the procedure and it is already pre-loaded on the ground. Less work in the air. Learning from SnF

Yeah my vacuum AI died last week and I'm having it overhauled due to time constraints for a flight next week. However, I want to go with 2 G5s AI and HSI. Later this year or early next year I think I'll pull the trigger. I like the 2 separate units over one unit like the Aspen though I do like the Aspens units.

So you doing 1 or 2 G5s? AI or HSI?

pilot did a god job only clipped a wing tip.

Garwin prop governor????? I'm just a pilot but never heard of that before. I too have been looking at the PCU5000 the reports of it are good.

if interested go on Dynon site and put your name in. Yes you have to give them email etc but it at least let's them gauge how many are interested.

so do you really want to make a new one (better mouse trap) or be happy with a replacement and move on? I'm sure there are plenty of originals to be had for cheap.

If you own a 40 year old plane and don't have these tools you are hurting yourself. Don't forget at least 2 different types of electric welders and a gas rig as well. I spent half a day a few years ago making a part for something that I could have went out and bought the entire thing I was fixing new for less money than the cost of my time but it was the principle of it. I have been using my mill and lathe a lot lately for non aviation projects.

I keep the low altitude charts in front of me on paper form and I switch back and for on the Ifly 740. Occasionally I did not have or couldn't find my low chart so I used the sections for the area.

Tom This is great to hear. I hope that you can get the parts cost reasonable. While at $30, $40 $50k for an install one would really need it or want it to install on a $40k to $100k plane. Now if parts and STC can be had for $10k to $15k you might be able to generate significant interest. I'm not sure what buying the turbo and waste gate outright from Ray Jay would cost but as you said Kelly signed the STC over to you. The STC itself should be minimal cost to the end user and then just the cost of components and install. The more economical you can make it the more you can sell and the more replacement parts in the future. Good luck and I'd be interested in doing this.

When I got my E model in 2010 I had about 150 hours or so total time, about 7 hours in an arrow in the preceding 12 months and 15 hours in 150s and 172s in the previous 5 months I had stopped flying for about 15 years prior to that. I think the insurance company just said get with an instructor maybe 2 or 3 hours required but I did have the Arrow time which is a similar airplane. I didn't find the transition that hard but I did have an older unmodified E model that slowed easily. Once I was cleared by the instructor I flew about once a week for the next year even if it was just going up for an hour by myself and I would start flying procedures VFR looking out the window at uncontrolled airstrips getting ready to start my IR training. This allowed me to get a good reference as to where I was visually with respect to the procedure and to start learning the terminology on the procedures.

Did that last summer it was nice after I left flew over the pacific ocean. Get the driver to pick you up at the airport he maybe able to get you in the cockpit of the goose free of charge. At lest that is what he told me when bringing me back to the airport. Nice museum remember there are 2 buildings and allow yourself enough time for both. Parts of my flight were IMC due to smoke last year in August time frame. Now if you want a real po-boy come down to New Orleans and I'll take care of you.

If you need to be told you are already too far gone to be saved.

This Mooney has been fitted with the new BTTF hover board technology STC. It rests on its belly skids for easy entry and exit then it will hover about 5' above the ground for engine start and take off. There are a couple of extra hover output flux inductors that act as brakes and lateral control while hovering and before taxing. Maximum hover height is 10' so true VTO is not possible but it does make landing in a cow pasture very smooth and cross wind landings are mostly eliminated. You pick up about 100lbs of useful load since the flux inductors are much lighter than our current landing gear and you pickup about 10kts because the lower skins are now smooth with no gear doors. Oh and as a bonus you get more leg room in the front since the nose wheel well is eliminated. Oh yes I do have the STC for that mod but if you have to ask it's probably too much for most of us CBs here. Cirrus drives need to learn to fly without the training wheels first before working on the STC for Cirrus.

Did anyone else do the simulated altitude chamber? It was neat simulate FL290. About the first 2 minutes you are pretty OK but it's all down hill after that. I thin it was about 4 minutes in when they gave me the mask with the O2.

make the retractable in the fuselage then when not running they don't produce drag

did you see the engine monitor boy a couple of JPIs or something like it would do wonders.

I saw the cabin but didn't bother to inquire as to what it was. I will do that next year. See you at the summit

yeah the flight up to 40J was quick but going west to New Orleans it slowed down

I didn't get into that with them.