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  1. Bunti
    Looks great! I promise (from my own experience) that you will be very happy about your decision for the next years!
  2. Bunti
    Here in Spruce Creek, hangar space for rent is usually only advertised by private owners in an internal video/internet channel or by word of mouth. If you live here, you can also put a free ad on the channel and ask for hangar space for rent. It may take some time, but most of the people who are looking for a space also find one after a while. We have +/- 500 planes at the airfield. Most are in hangars. There are always people selling airplanes, losing medicals or even making room in their hangar ... This makes space available. Demand for buying hangars is still high. But almost nothing on the market. Hangars which store approx. 2 Mooneys and a small high wing aircraft (size about 50 x 50) have been sold over the last time for approx. 450,000 to 500,000 $. Hangar homes usually have a smaller hangar. They start at 640,000 $ with 43 x 33 hangar.
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    I got my yokes powder coated by a professional powdercoating company several years ago. It was not expensive and they are still in good shape.
  4. Bunti
    Be careful. All Mooneys with the IO360 A1A engine are approved for wide and narrow deck versions of the engine. The 67F should have come with a wide deck engine. But if you have to replace the engine with another overhauled one, you can end up with a narrow deck on the same airplane. And to make it even more complicated: If you keep your wide deck sump with the data plate and take most of the rest of the parts from a narrow deck engine, you have still the serial number which represents a wide deck engine on a narrow deck engine. Before ordering new cylinders, it is a good idea to visually confirm if it is wide or narrow deck.
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    Hi, 200 degrees is not bad for the oil temp. I have the Lasar relocation kit installed in my M20F. It did not change the temperature a lot. My impression is that due to the new location behind cylinder 4, the airflow to the cooler is after the relocation more depended on the pitch of the airplane. Especially during the climb on hot Florida days, I have to lower the nose very soon and increase the speed to somewhere at about 115 to 125 KIAS to reduce the rising rate of the oil temp. Even with 120 KIAS, I sometimes end up with 215 F at the top of climb. Then the oil temp usually drops a few degrees:. Depending on the outside air temperature at altitude and LOP or ROP ops, I see about 186F to about 206F in cruise. The nose of the plane looks nicer. The new hoses to the engine are much shorter. I may have gained half a knot and the cooler does not collect dirt or so anymore and stays in good shape.
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    I change the oil and the filter approx. every 25 to 30 hours but never later than every 6 months.
  7. Bunti
    My shunt broke a while ago into two pieces. This gave me on one of the break in flights for my overhauled engine all kinds of error messages on my EDM930. Including EGT and CHT signal failures and for sure a very high amps reading which finally changed to a red X. I did not continue this flight to the destination and did a precautionary landing. Reason for the problem was that the shunt screws had been improper installed. I bought a new shunt. It was installed properly and all readings are back in the green.
  8. Bunti
    I assume that 85 C means nothing more than 85 Celsius and this is the temperature the vernatherm opens the way for the oil through the oil cooler. 85 Celsius equals to 185 Fahrenheit. If your vernatherm was not broken before, I do not assume that you see any changes with another one.
  9. Bunti
    I assume that this is an install problem. My Powerflow exhaust was installed directly by the Powerflow company in Daytona Beach. It never showed any leaks.
  10. Bunti
    Most states in the US do not require GA airplanes to have any type of insurance.
  11. Bunti
    I had been to Longview and Maxwell converted my 20:1 gear to 40:1 with the Mooney retrofit kit. Afterwards the old electric gear motor did not want to work anymore. He converted the gear back to the old one and the motor was running fine again. I took the uninstalled kit home. I kept it like this for a while and then my local A+P/IA removed the actuator with the motor and sent it to Lasar. They got the motor overhauled and replaced the gears again with my kit from Maxwell. Now everything is working fine. The gear in the actuator is a very small worm which has to hold a good amount of pressure during the gear cycle. If you have the 6 seconds new gear, the force to the gear is less and it will last longer. It is not written in the Service Instruction, but Maxwell said that the gear down speed may increase because of the modification tp 40:1. Reason is that you have the same setup as the early M20J which also have a higher gear speed then my M20F. But you may not want to do it because 1) it is not written down somewhere and 2) the higher gear speed will again put more pressure and wear on the actuator. I have been told that a motor with worn out brushes .... may work better with the old 20:1 actuator.
  12. Bunti
    15,000 feet plus an additional 1,000 feet at both ends as stopway.
  13. Bunti
    On the right side at about middle of the runway, you see a parked Shuttle. It looks real but I believe it is a mockup and not a real Space Shuttle.
  14. Bunti
    I just uploaded a video of a low approach of the Space Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida. I flew a few times over this remarkable airport and enjoyed it very much. This time I mounted an action camera at the tiedown-mount of my Mooney M20F and filmed the approach. Groundspeed was about 140 knots during the overflight.
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    Can somebody send me the contact data of Karl Stepka? I ned my prop balanced.
  16. Bunti
    You are right! The landing was not exactly on the centerline. Next time, I will do better!!!
  17. Bunti
    No, the camera was mounted with a suction mount on the left side window. Above my head is not enough room.
  18. Bunti
    If somebody wants to get a well equipped plane, he or she has to pay for it. Everybody knows in between that it is very expensive to buy and install good avionics. In a sellers market, the discount, you get for work and installations which have been done by the previous owner will be reduced. I agree that you cannot get back the whole labor and equipment cost, if you sell your airplane after a few years. But after a few years of use, the equipment is not new anymore and out of warranty. A new GTN750 or Aspen with full warranty has a bigger value than a unit out of warranty or with only a short remaining warranty. In addition, a seller may take into account that over the years installation-rates got more expensive. If you got an EDM930 installed 5 years ago for 40 hours by 60 dollars. You may now pay 40 hours by 85 dollars or even more. And even the EDM930 itself got more expensive over the years. So if the seller is giving the buyer a too large discount on what he paid, may be not the best idea for the seller. Stefan
  19. Bunti
    If the new owner of this beautiful Mooney adds a nice GTN750, a 345 transponder and 2 G5 or an Aspen PFD plus some small mods like the oil cooler relocation and the nose cowl enclosure, he easily is adding another 35k to 40k to the airplane. And if the engine needs work, the bill will even be higher. And - I assume - if he has to sell the plane after the modifications, he would not do it below 110k or 120k. And this is completely ok. A big part of the value of the plane is represented by the avionics equipment, engine monitor, autopilot and even the engine health status. All this is independent from the model of the plane. In my opinion, a good equipped M20F with updated interior, some mods and nice paint must always sell for way more than a crappy M20J. Sure, the M20F will always be older than the M20J and the M20J has more standard modifications. On the other hand, I believe it is way more important that the airplane had been always hangared and good maintained.
  20. Bunti
    No, we do not have a raft in our Mooney. We always carry life-vests. On flights over water, I try to stay in gliding distance from the shoreline Here is our tracklog (green line) from the flight to Marathon. Due to some clouds, we did not fly very high. So we followed the shoreline.
  21. Bunti
    Thank you! The beaches in Marathon are not that easy to find. But there are private beaches at several hotels and even a nice public beach. We had been to Sombrero-beach. The people at visitflorida call this beach: one of the best kept beach secrects in the Florida Keys. We had a good time at the beach and it was very quite! https://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/cities/marathon/sombrero-beach-in-marathon-florida-key-west.html
  22. Bunti
    During our last visit to Marathon, I filmed the approach from the cockpit of the Mooney M20F. Most of the instruments, including my Aspen PFD and the Garmin GTN 750 are visible. Due to the later evening, and the low sun, the outside view is ok, but could be better. To make the visual approach against the sun easy, I selected the visual approach to runway 25 in my Garmin GTN750. With this setup, I got an ILS-like vertical and lateral deviation indication on my Aspen PFD. Also you can see on the Aspen the AOA function and the synthetic vision.
  23. Bunti
    Gami Injectors make most sense, if you have engine fuel flow and EGT-data from every cylinder. The company is great. They will send you finetuned injectors for every cylinder to make them peak at the same time, when you lean. The difference between the first and the last peak is called the "Gami-spread". But without an engine monitor, you are not able to find out about the Gami-spread and you will be unable telling Gami which injectors you need. For my Mooney, I first bought an engine monitor. After that, I recorded the different peak values of the cylinders and sent the data to Gami. With this information they were able to produce the right set of injectors for my engine. If - after installing the new injecors - the cylinders are not peaking at almost the same fuel flow, they will exchange one or more injectors until everything works perfect. I suggest, that you start with installing an engine monitor. I consider the engine monitor as one of the most important pieces of equipment in my Mooney. It tells me what is going on in my engine. There are lots of possible engine problems which you will not see without an engine monitor. For example, I had an intake leak on one cylinder. The monitor showed an alarm and I reduced power, landed and got it fixed immediately. Without the monitor, I would not have seen it and I may have destroyed the cylinder.
  24. Bunti
    Here in Spruce Creek (7FL6) in Florida you can fly all day and night. The runway has lights and a PAPI for both directions. Our GPS approach was restircted to daytime only for a while because of too many trees near the approach sector. Now the trees have been cut or removed and the FAA will give us the night GPS approval for runway 24 back during the next weeks. If you want to depart IFR and you are unable to stay in VMC after takeoff, you can call Daytona Approach via phone and get an IFR clearance before takeoff on the ground.
  25. Bunti
    You are correct, right now it is the same. Over the year, we see often a few degrees more in the south. And my impression was very often after I landed my Mooney in Fort Myers, Punta Gorda or in the Miami area that the air felt less comfortable than in our area. But everybody feels different.
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