marky_24

I live in St. George, SGU would be your best bet for a rental car, a lot of the tour companies for Zions are in Hurricane. You can land at Bryce Canyon and have Ruby inn come pick you up. You can also fly over Zion, Bryce, and the Grand Canyon in a couple of hours. I take friends and family on that loop often.

Thanks for all the ideas, I'll take a look at the Jack screw.

The trim servo in my 78 J needs to be rebuilt again, just had it done and it lasted about 5 hours before it started slipping again.... My question is can I fly the plane without the servo installed? Placard the electric trim inop, and fly with the trim wheel? It took 4 weeks last time, and I have a flight review coming up soon

Interesting video from AVweb. I noticed when they were taking about the curing ovens he mentioned that they could cure wing skins, maybe more changes coming to Mooney?

It definitely took both arms to overcome it, but it wasn't too hard to keep it level or slightly climbing.

Just a reminder to keep an eye on your electric trim. As I was taxiing to the runway I was setting the trim for take off with the wheel, which I always do to check for binding or what not. I could not move the wheel very easily. After a second I noticed that the left half of the split electric trim switch was stuck down, I centered the switch and could freely move the trim wheel now. I ran the trim full up and full down on the electric trim, everything performed nominal. I took off and did some local flying. When I returned I decided to a touch and go, not to start a debate about touch and goes, but on the roll out I set the trim for take off then set the flaps for take off, and applied full power. As I was watching the airspeed come up to 65 MPH I was launched into air by a big "irregular SFC" aka heave in the runway, "SGU RWY 01/19 BTN 2000FT S APCH END RWY 19 AND 3000FT N APCH END RWY 01 IRREGULAR SFC". I figured I would just accelerate in ground affect and climb out, only to my astonishment the plane tried to nose drive into the ground! I had to apply a good deal of back pressure to stay level, as I accelerated and began to climb out the airplane just wanted to nose dive. I glanced down and saw that the trim had run full nose down! The switch had stuck after I trimmed on the roll out. I got it back into trim, went around the pattern and decided to call it a day. I sprayed the switch with contact cleaner and that took away the stickiness.

In the NTSB report they mention that the other side was also failing.

Found this one

I know the Mooney wing is a great wing, I just like knowing about these things. Like I am surprised at the Piper spar. Basically just a formed "T" shape. What does the Mooney spar look like? "I" beam shaped?

After reading the preliminary report on the ERAU Arrow wing separating, it got me wondering what the Mooney spar and wing look like. I'm not worried about my wing falling off, just curious. Does anyone have any pictures of a wing without skins, or a drawing? https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20180404X13226&AKey=1&RType=HTML&IType=FA

Google drive has a scan feature that uses your phones camera to make pdf's of documents. It's how I upload all my invoices to send to customers and get paid. Works great.

I wouldn't think the wing tips would work because of wing tip Vortices.

My point is just because more people choose it, doesn't make it the best. In fact I find the opposite true. McDonald's has the best selling hamburger in the world, is it the best hamburger?

Yeah and transformers movies are the #1 movies when they come out, doesn't mean they are the best....

"Bonanzas have long been called “Doctor Killers” (as were Lake amphibians), but did you know that less-expensive Mooneys are “Dentist Killers”?" Hey! https://www.flyingmag.com/unusual-attitudes-nicknames-deserved-or-not?src=SOC&dom=fb

Try this, Before shut down bring the rpm's to 1200, tighten the friction lock so you dont bump it getting out. Next pull mixture to cut off. Then when you restart, DONT TOUCH ANYTHING, just crank the engine. 5 blades or less the engine will fire, briskly move the mixture to rich and bring rpm's to 1000. This has never let me down and i live where it gets to 110+ in the summers.

Hot vs cold engine when the compression check was done?

On my J I was taught to bring the rpms to 1200 on shutdown, lock the throttle so you dont bump it and shut it down with the mixture. On start up touch nothing, just turn on the master and crank. 4 blades or less and it cranks up. This has never failed me.

It was right around freezing and My heater doesn't work very well on the ground and that picture wasn't very long after lift off.

Thanks, they love it especially going up and down. Mom on the other hand gets sick after a few times

I just had my girls up Christmas day

Yep, I suspect that the mag hold down nuts got loosened to adjust the timing at the last annual in August and they didn't put new lock washers on.

I went to go fly my 78 J today and noticed that there was a good bit on oil under the plane , looking in the oil fill door I couldn't see where the oil was coming from . So I removed the cowling and started cleaning up the oil. When I cleaned the oil off the mag I noticed it moving very easily . I Called my mechanic over to retime the mags , but they just wouldn't come into time. So we pulled the mags and sent them off for an overhaul . It was odd timing, pun intended, that the mag had come lose and both sides went bad all at once . I'm just glad it happened on the ground !

On my 78 J there is only 3 position closed, in trail and fully open. Over center one direction is closed, just passed over center is in trail, about 1/3 open and then over center the other direction is fully open. When I picked mine up the mechanism was snagging the scat tube in fully closed position and it would pop back to intrail in the air and would not stay closed.