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To me, the owner leaving his logbook in the back of the planes like leaving $20,000 in cash in a bag in the back of a plane. I would just as soon have the digital copies and let them keep those logs unless he just bought the thing or we’re doing a pre-buy and if we go over them together in person, it’s sometimes very helpful. Especially when you’re missing a bunch of AD’s.

Old tank sealant is one thing, but I don’t see a thing with 25-year-old bladders. The ones in my plane are 33 years old and I just had Griggs do the add on kit which required removal of the outboard bladder to install a nipple, and those things still look like new. The thing about old tank, sealants, is if it’s not leaking right now, don’t expect a discount. Sellers don’t even want to pay for things that are broken much less things that are old and nearly worn out and may give out at any time. But generally, if you see a plane with a whole page of this stuff, it’s better to just buy a nicer plane.

I would like this. It I can’t get ahold of you with that number

Otherwise it’s a Cadillac starter. All ball bearings and series wound. The skytec is disposable and that’s ok when they were 365$. But the old MZ will last forever. It’s only heavier than the Skytec when you dont carry a spare skytec when you melt it down.

I would think that screws going into the main spar web need to be addressed before saying that are OK. And it’s kind of like an AD you need to positive confirmation it’s not going to be a problem because you may end up having to replace a lot of expensive stuff to fix the problem.

I’ve heard the BNC will not fit on an M20J. I even called them, they said it hits the fuel servo.

The best starter is a MZ4222. Ours went 1200 hrs. and it was put on the airplane at least 1000 hours before we bought it maybe more. And it was still going but I had it overhauled while the plane was down 3 months. But so far it’s on its third Engine. it does have a cranking duty cycle limitation, after 60 minutes you must let it cool for one minute before using it again

Painting and mooney- specific annual tasks are vastly different things. It's like asking the guy who is staining your stairs to build your cabinets. Or to do your HVAC. I said we're in the middle of ripping out the interior in replace of it all, never mind this is not my specialty, I'm going to fight my way through it. I'm gonna have 100 or more hours in it but it would've been cheaper just to send it out.

I don’t think the Lycoming or the continentals move up.

I believe George Perry has some Hi-Rez photos of his plane that he posted on here in flight. It’s exactly as it does on the ground. If it’s low sitting in the chocks, it’s low in cruise.

The reviews of that switch says they are easy to turn off. I’ve noticed this too. Plus they feel cheap and you need to cut a hole to mount this. Not a fan.

The WX500 was discontinued a couple of years ago so they can sell more WX 1000. And then L3 sold the ownership rights to that to Extant down in Florida who charges about 4000 or $5000 to repair them now. And they used to be about 7000 new and now they're about 5000 used, with the caveat that in any given time you're gonna pay that to get it repaired.

No IA can declare an airplane not airworthy. They can perform the annual inspection and give a discrepancy list to the owner. If you’re concerned about the plane being abandoned, take a big enough escrow deposit to cover that risk.

The garmin EIS will have low fuel alerting that you can set. Ours is set for five or I think 7 gallons per side is Amber and then 1 gallon is red.

It’s epoxy, but not all epoxy is the same. We use MGS . Structural Aircraft epoxy. That’s what specified in the Cirrus repair manual, for example. Hardware store epoxy is about 10% as strong as this stuff and the boat resin fiberglass Polyester MEKP cured stuff from the hardware store is about one percent as strong as this. You might as well use some old bedsheets and some fish, glue and save your customer some money on materials because the outcome is going to be the same. Added Weight and nothing else. but if you use MGS and real structural aircraft, fiberglass or carbon fiber, you can make it pretty good repair. I’ll see so many poor repairs on airplanes that come in here with Brown hardware store fiberglass, chop strand mat and resin.

locking bat toggle. Mouser has them.

We’ve done a good bit of composite work, it’s just it takes literally forever and we have a ton of hours in it and it usually is not worth it. But if you gonna have to pay $18,000 to get another one, there may be something there.

It depends, but if you take a very critical look at it when you first get the plane, and it’s hangared and it never gets rained on and you have the SB 208 compliant insulation that doesn’t touch any of the tubes you’re probably good for a quite a long time, a few years anyways. If the plane lives outside, I would make sure absolutely that all of the windows seals and the pilot storm windows seal are 100% watertight. I mean pressure washer, water, tight. And even then I would look at the steel fuselage tubes every couple or three years.

It’s not just the electric motor, it’s also the ball screw and also the gears and bearings inside of that thing. You could also update it to a Vickers actuator. We have a 75F model with that thing I think it was installed from the factory that way.

im also going through this ovation interior refit. Who stitched your headrest logos? Those looks boss. Also, get some 2022 Bronco leather headrests, those tilt and adjust. Real nice. ebay, 200$ for a pair. Drops in

There is no upgrade path by Mooney to upgrade to a newer G1000 and if you’re talking about ripping it Russia fitting in the entire aircraft that’s going to run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars if it’s even possible. The aircraft is built around that it’s actually part of the type certificate. The Cirrus upgrade path with the TXI series displays is 100 grand. And that’s the already certified kit price and it’s been done a bunch of times. If you’ve got to engineer this yourself, I don’t know how it’s gonna go and I’m not sure if anybody’s ever done it before. it’s the same thing with cars. You buy a Hyundai with all the connected stuff that updates, the maps and the software over the air, then they announce that they’re ending support for that because 3G is going away or just because they plane old don’t feel like supporting anymore. And then, the fact that your climate controls all your vehicle settings are all integrated through this technology display when that craps out I guess you can just throw the car away.

Here is the thing with that, though, Garmin has the airframe manufacturer, basically control all aspects of the upgrade path or software updates or any of that stuff. And if the airframer is lazy, or does not want to support older air frames to force you to buy newer ones, or just plain doesn’t want to, there is no upgrade path. We already had the same problem with the legacy G1000 and the upgrade to WAAS. It seemed to be a kind of a limited thing and now they’re not offering it anymore. I do not expect they would offer an upgrade to NXi either.

We do that a lot and it will fire all eight plugs. It starts up even better.

They are not even all that expensive and if you use them for a couple of annuals, they will pay for themselves pretty quickly

the Rami AV100 is a certified 406/121.4 ELT whip antenna its TSO'd. it also fits under the dorsal fin if you bent it a little.