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Mooney pros Mike Elliott 

On 4/7/2024 at 10:00 AM, mike_elliott said:

I have had a number of clients move on to TBMs after they have owned s long body Mooney. They both are "numbers" planes and behave very similarly. A few have gotten their PPL in the Ovations and Acclaims and paid the big bucks for first year insurance premiums. One Boeing fellow bought an Ovation for his son in lieu of college as he wanted to be an airline pilot. He currently is flying for netjets professionally. 

Lots of ways to skin the retract time cat, but not too many better than in a Mooney

Things have changed there are many avenues to get to the bigs, I have a friend pilot who had his daughter go the route without attending college I just finished her tax return which was her first as  an officer, this being her first real job BTW at PSair, her w-2 was in excess of $155,000,  not bad for a country girl emulating daddy. Get those kids up and flying I have quite a few pilots, mechanics etc, one mechanic for Delta made $100+, gosh I’d be great to be young again. Hell I have a surgical nurse making just under $200..

Sweet, absolutely 2024 Mooney Ovation3 a year earlier it’d be on its way to Delaware 

Sounds familiar L

12 hours ago, Hank said:

But they're both turbocharged! Doesn't the Acclaim have TWO turbos???

Yes it does on takeoff it sets you back in your seat, the Bravo didn’t I guess that’s the extra turbo. I don’t have the 310 HP upgrade but it still climbs like a homesick angel 

The big problem with the turbo Mooneys is you won’t want to go non turbocharged again. It took me a year to want to keep my Acclaim over the Bravo don’t want to go back. 

I recently sold my Bravo and the pre purchase mechanic wanted them, lost sale unless you will accept copies, right there he didn’t trust, would never go there it was a MSC

I’m glad your situation turned out good. BTW trust doesn’t enter the equation of logg, files etc. I’m entrusted with many sensitive documents being a CPA but stuff happens, recently a client had a devastating fire, not a mechanic nonetheless fire, hurricanes twisters happen..

8 minutes ago, Yetti said:

So you are saying your annual took a week or 2 and the log books were lost for 3-4 months?    I'd be concerned with an IA that can lose log books in 1-2 weeks.

Two separate annuals the lost logs were around 1990, agreed reason for my departure, lesson learned. Is there a correlation between logs which are copied and duration of an annual, just wondering. My response was actually to give thought of the value for f our logs while providing a reasonable situation where they could be missing, not trying to get in a pissing match just trying to give my situation. If one doesn’t value there logs it’s none of my business, sorry for giving a response not intended to insult anyone.

9 minutes ago, Yetti said:

The log books go over along with the AD report from last year AFTER the work is done.   As one of my friends said "What's the point of owning a plane if it is in annual for 1/3 of a year."

What’s that got to do with copying logs my annuals are 7-14 days. 

On 3/5/2024 at 10:27 PM, Yetti said:

You need a better relationship with your IA.   The IA trusts me to do work every now and then I help him on other planes.   I trust him with the log books, cause it makes his job easier.  He does not charge me enough for the inspection and I write the check for a bit more.

Yetti stuff happens, I only go now to MSCs which none have had an issue with copies. 

On 3/5/2024 at 8:37 AM, Pinecone said:

I don't give my logbooks to anyone.  I have a PDF of them and give the A&P/IA the PDF copy.  They provide a signed sticker for me to add to the log book and scan to add to the PDF

There are a number of stories around of shops losing logbooks.  Or owner dies and logs are locked up, sometimes for years.  Or shop goes under.  Or, there is a dispute with owner over what was authorized, done, or charges and the shop refuses to release the logs.

Couldn’t agree more Terry, years ago the shop lost mine after 3-4 months no logs, I asked the owner if I could go through his files, found em, never went back and logs never leaver my home. 

1 hour ago, 201er said:

 

Mike recently upgraded the Acclaim to this new better system, ma gas mileage soared to around 36 mpg

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Nope, issues with ships gauge no surprise, your set with the JPI

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Basically need to provide a report of a current eye evaluation showing visual acuity and refractive error ,absent of significant side effects should be good to go, I currently fly with a SODA legally blind in one eye, my nightmares are if he messes up my good eye. They have light adjustable lenses where the adjust or fine tune your vision both near and far over a few weeks, one of the doctors was a pilot in the Marines and she highly recommended them plus recommended doing the bad eye to let more light in ?
Appreciate your help Hank

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Thanks Hank..helps. Getting apprehensive 

Yeah or nay…I’m to close and concerned about the outcome

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Luckily it occurred during landing I was already trim up, when I taxi back I generally neutralize my trim well it wouldn’t work, but the trim wheel did. The brackets holding the servos on are weak, my avionics guy works on bigger planes jets and turbo props his other encounter with an Acclaim was the roll servo also came loose, once he got home he said self any chance a different one worked loose his hunch paid off. Obviously a weak point in the system. I’ve had numerous scary encounters with auto pilot runaway trim or worse but with an STEC a/p. Gotta stay on top of the game.

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Hey David I this past weekend lost my pitch trim servo, figuring I have a 3-5000 expense, I got lucky my avionics man found a loose pin on the servo plus the other pin was missing unbelievable he found the pin in the back belly of the Acclaim. He said it’s his second Mooney that had this issue, changed the captan pins good to go. At his mercy he could have said it was a bad servo and nailed me for a major repair. So many things can go wrong or occur  gotta be diligent luckily I lost it landing at home airport. 
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William the paint scheme and color combo gets more remarks actually from the towers and ground than my other planes. It’s awesome looking although I’m a little biased.

Yea 

David my Acclaim had poor compression like many had, I purchased it 13 months ago, the pre purchase agreement highlighted the low numbers a few around 40/80 therefore I wanted a complete top done before I took the plane, now a year later it’s flying like a sewing machine smooth as silk for a piston plane. Still learning flying it LOP which it likes opposite on my Bravo. The acclaim went a year and half without an oil change based on the lack of care I chose to do quite a bit prior to me taking the plane. After my first year things are going well. Your bandit is beautiful I hope you get it ironed out, I just lost my electric trim no more bragging about no issues.

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I’d think twice regarding C&W, I won’t respond beyond that. d 

Going from Delaware to Texas in my Mooney going home commercial I can’t stomach going back commercial so I’m looking at a one way car rental which I did last year, they gouge us on one way renting but considering I don’t want to do both so  I’m driving one way, I guess dumb can’t always make decisions based on cost. Anyone want to fly me down I’m in..

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