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Yes - all a little better. Unfortunately I didn't quantify it. But they publish suggested quantitative improvements at the MT website - in your case I would think using the M20TN STC? and I agree that they are very consistent with what I see. BTW - mine was installed by field approval so if the M20V is not covered by the M20TN STC then I bet they could get you the prop anyway.

I did an extensive review about 18 months ago when I got it. Here is what comes up in the search engine: https://mooneyspace.com/topic/10978-3-blade-vs-4-blade/ https://mooneyspace.com/topic/10470-mt-4-blade-composite-prop-for-m20-r-s-tn/ https://mooneyspace.com/topic/15609-did-erik-get-a-new-prop/ In the last one I made an extensive review on June 13, 2015. You see I was a bit "fun" first just posting a picture without otherwise announcing it. Then someone else started that thread. I do believe - but do not know for sure since I am not with the company- just a private owner - that the M20M STC and separately the M20TN STC as well as the M20R STC all use the same exact blades, but the hubs are different, so they would not be interchangible between blades, but aerodynamically identical. In addition to the June 13, 2015 review I will add that WOW - I still love it every time I run it. It is just so SMOOOTH and sounds so good it is hard to describe. People who hears it tell me the same thing. It was the weight and balance which was my number one initial reason to look into this and it makes the rocket (and I presume any big bore mooney) no longer such a nose heavy airplane - it will feel in pitch a lot more like a lighter mooney, like a lycoming 4 cylinder.

Wow - free shipping? Ironic that your cold weather additive comes from Florida labs. I am embarrassed to say how much I paid on shipping a $32 gallon of isopropyl from aircraft spruce. 3% - that quite a lot actually. Really you add about 1.5 gallons into a 50 gallon tank? That sounds like too much. I declare myself the closest US based mooney to you up there in cold county Montreal. Check out how close KPTD is to you. I gotta see that M20V when it comes.

It's mostly the major pain of the prist system of inserting a tube in the fuel stream that is such a nuisance. Esp - imagine it is windy, and that little tube is hard to keep in place, and its cold like 15F and you need to keep the gloves off to handle the fuel with one hand, (holding cold metal now), and now it is a two handed operation to fuel with a second hand operating the prist can. SO much easier to dump in a measured cup of isopropyl - if that's good enough that is what I want to do.

Eeeeh ghad! I have read again and again that yes people are getting this problem. So yes, about 3 years ago I decided to do something about it. I have been using avgas-grade prist - but that product is a nuisance to handle. I am switching to isopropyl. I just bought a gallon on aircraft spruce - not cheap. How pure is the paint store stuff? How much do you use?

If you can hang on for a year - there are more modern - better - experimental autopilots being ported over to STC status for certified airplanes - with digital autopilots with things like gpss and envelope protection - that promise to be much cheaper and better.

I believe what is said at APS - that ICP is key, but also heat. My intuition tells me therefore - but I don't know for sure, meaning independent confirmation experimentally - that as long as temperatures don't get "interesting" that the same power at higher rpm is better since that same power is distributed over more cylinder strokes, so less pressure in each individual combustion event.

Oh - well best of luck! !!

Congratulations! Will you stick around here sometimes and continue to give us the feeling like we have an inside guy at the AOPA?

The interior has two different stages - one is Mooney specific which is the Jaeger Interiors system - which you can read about if you google that - and it is really everything he says it is - a clean new look and it opens things up noticeably with more elbow room etc. I highly recommend it for Mooneys. But the upholstery - the leather - is by SCS interiors and they are in Duluth MN. They are a biggish company that do many models of airplanes and boats too - I would expect they could do your Lancair with no problem at all. They do for example also the custom OEM jobs for Cirrus too. Seems like that is pretty near you. BTW - I will be VERY near you in April doing an external program review external for programs Marquette University. KSAW. ...well you see eh, we are 15 miles from Canada here in upstate so its all the Tim Horton's - eat enough of their donuts and drink enough of their coffee and next thing you know you start watching hockey and eating poutine.

I think he's an imposter English guy. He says 1033 to compensate. I bet he was born and raised in Sarasota Springs, FL.

-56 - now that is COLD. I might be a whimp but I was cold for 4.5 hrs sitting there in whatever the cabin temp was but oat -30ish. I feel that my plane also has a super heater, ...for warmer temps like -10. At -30ish, my windows frost from the inside due to my breath freezing, but not all the way. I have some thick leather and fleece booties I wear for flying when it is arctic. Do you or anyone you know use products in your fuel to prevent ice crystals blocking fuel? I have been doing so for 3 years. I have been using the avgas version of prist but I read that aviation-pure isopropyl is cheaper and easier to use. I think this one deserves a new thread.

I'm third generation so I don't know how to make Polinium 210 tea. Wouldn't that be better in an umbrella anyway? I was just in November iN Rome - and Naples, and in Pompei - no Hamburgers. >I mist admit you are the first American who has not said to me "ah my ancestors came from England, Scotland, Etc." England - Smengland. Now if I see Mr Putin - I can say - my Grandma came from Russia....

....I love when I see in London a restaurant that says "Proper American Hamburger". It is such a lovely mixture of cultures. Hamburgers of course are the quintessential "American" delicacy. But the word "Hamburger" is of course named for the city in Germany. A little bit like the way we say French Fries - what we think is the American food that goes with hamburgers. (Need ketchup too). And Proper is of course the typical English way of saying "done right" or "authentic" - so the English showing off in an English way an American (German) food joint. So at least 3 cultures mixed into one. Meanwhile, I am like most Americans. I don't come from England nor do my ancestors. All of my grandparents came from Russia during WWI - which was a good last moment to leave Russia before the Soviets moved in. I don't know much about my history before the generation before my grandparents. 1033 - now that is impressive. Did they have Proper Hamburger restaurants back then?

Are you sure? I thought it was "brilliant". Are you sure you are English? I mean just because we met at a "Proper Hanburger" place near South Kensington tube in London, and you talked with a proper funny accent...doesn't prove anything.

Well - I have something in mind I have never seen on a Mooney before. Either it will be really great - and unique. Or it will be really bad - but unique. Go big or stay home.

Thanks dude - yer in the "circle of trust." It's a surprise for everyone else... for a little excitement and surprise unveiling in March... :-)

No silly - its a top secret surprise.

Cuba?!!! Cool. Perfect - so right around when you get back... :-)

It goes in "at the beginning of Feb" meaning 1st week. I'm going to J&M painting in Middlebury VT. They said "about 4 weeks". So how about you come by near the beginning of March right after I get my plane back?

Thanks - I visited the hangar today - and poked my head in again and took a big whiff of that new car smell! Weepnomore reseal and new interior is a good combo. I generally feel I had decent heat in the zero range, in the minus ten range, but when it was -30 well, after 4 hours of just sitting there, I got ...cooooooold. -30 just was too much for the heater to keep up with.

What?! Smidge?! Do I look like Julia Child? Or Chef Boyardee?!

I was about to ask to - why you expect less fuel burn after an hour of flight. I still don't understand now that I read this. I also agree with your remark - why would the fuel warm up in flight. If anything, I expect it to cool off since it is colder at altitude than on the ground.

I would love that Yve. ugh I hope the organizer has a good outcome.

I didn't notice - was it chilly?