Danb

Embarrassingly I just flat spotted my tire the first time. It has a flat spot no cord showing trying to determine to have it changed or wait till I get home. Gotta always stay on your game or stupid stuff happens D

I enjoy the flyer unfortunately they need more people to write articles, Richard our own, writes nice articles on a monthly basis. For those not familiar to the flyer, the Mooney flyer.com you can check out the archives for more content plus many events, instructors etc are listed.,It’s a nice read D

Dave I’ve done exactly as you, I ended up getting iPad mini for the yoke and use the big one as a backup plus I use it personally it’s addictive D

I started in a Cherokee after my PPL at about 70 hours I purchased my first Mooney a 1977 J I had an instructor who owned a m20-E and started towards my instrument rating along with learning transiting to my Mooney, some 40 short years ago. Have only owned Mooneys since. Say a mooneyafare..

Thanks Paul

I usually contact Ralph if I don’t know the arrangements

As mentioned above there is a program in Burlington Vt in early September, does anyone know which hotel is being used, I just notified Lela I’d be in attendance. Beech has stopped doing there proficiency program hopefully we can get younger instructors involved so ours don’t meet the same fate. D

My last couple flights it seemed as though it took longer than normal for my gear to go down and lock in place. Is this a sign of a possible gear issue. How long should it take for it to go down and lock. Next couple flights I’m going to time it hopefully I’m not being neurotic. D

I didn’t put the inflatable seal on my Acclaim although I had it on my Bravo for over 15 years with no issues hurting the door, most Mooney doors fit poorly for some reason,I just put a new OEM seal on the Acclaim which I’ve doctored up with strips of seal. They build a great plane except for the door issues. Of the four Mooneys I’ve owned only my ‘77 J had a decent seal. Something happened to the fit post 1977.

Custom ear plugs for Fran’s Halo’s

U gotta show us your new panel

Nice low CHTs..

Beautiful

I have a nonin two cheapies from Walgreens and my Apple Watch also has a meter. The issue is keeping the batteries alive..

Very nice J, kid.. D

Very nice clean job, you’ll love it. Nice TAS at 23/24, must be rigged nicely D

You had gearups Skip or generally there to many D

Would love a Honda Jet for trips and a super cub for beating the treetops

I gotta stretch to get to 5’8” and had to remove the 3” extension that came with the Acclaim although I sit forward on a long flight I’ll put the seat back a couple notches get get more comfy and return to forward getting ready to descend. I think it’s a myth that the plane is just for short small people

That’s what I was wondering last year I had a database mismatch and went back did them over, I plan a trip on Wednesday so I don’t want a surprise doing it on game day..I used to have Jeppesen which worked great, I’m kinda dumb not keeping it with the acclaim

What is your procedure for the Acclaim my Bravo used three cards I use Garmin downloads and it apparently wants me to use two cards, it stops after two so I begin the process over to do the other card, one PFD,MFD and Nav card. D

You’re most likely going to have a EGT spread similar to what you mentioned. I doubt you have any issues D

Troy I didn’t actually answer your question but my point is there are a number of realistic settings depending on you mission that day. You like 16-23 LOP A good setting for 16000 I’d use on a trip would be 29/2400 16-17 GPH LOP depending how far you’d want to go determines your speed and FF. A lot depends on whether I’m on a 900+ trip or less than 500 on how I’d fly so I wouldn’t have to land for fuel. As mentioned the acclaim yields a lot of realistic options. Mine always runs cool so CHT isn’t an issue. Today’s outside temperature was in the low 90’s and my CHTS were all around 300. Good luck with your new plane you mentioned you’ve got numerous settings from different Mooneys you’ll figure it out it took almost a year for me to get over my Bravo which IMO is the best.

Just pussing around today my normal cruise at 27.5/2400RPM hottest CHT around 313, TIT 1600, FF 14.5 was just 5000’ and TAS was around 178 knots. My Acclaim can be flown in a number of settings and altitudes allowing 201 type numbers up to TN numbers. I have the ability to just cruise as low as 150 at under 12 GPH up to 225 and 20 GPH which I don’t do. Most my trips are around 15 GPH with great low temps if that’s a good thing at 190 or so depending on altitude.

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