LANCECASPER

Ever since that Technical Bulletin came out I bought a timer and I have my Battery Minders come on a couple times a week during the night for a few hours. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G9RK4VV?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1

To me it was never clear what they were selling. Was it an investment they were selling that could have been fallen under SEC guidelines? Was it an equity ownership? Were you pre-paying for a future discount? Was it a shell game? Shouldn't there have been some kind of prospectus if they were holding your funds? Just a guess but I think someone figured out that however it was set up it wasn't legal. Maybe I'm wrong.

I bet you haven’t . .lol

I have bought Mooney specific parts from them when they have them, but I won't knowingly overpay them for a part readily available somewhere else where I can order it and get it in a couple days.

I had M20M Serial # 27-0209 from 1996 - 2000 and it had dual puck brakes. It was much better than the brakes on my 231 which had single puck brakes, but was a lighter airplane. From 2006-2010 I had M20M Serial # 27-0007 and it had single puck brakes with brand new rotors and pads, properly broken in. The brakes were adequate but certain not confidence-inspiring, no doubt the reason that Mooney chose to upgrade to the dual puck brakes shortly into the M20M. From 2015-2021 I had M20M Serial #27-150 and it had dual puck brakes and again on this airplane the brakes were excellent.

Exactly

So they're saying that the M20M needs dual puck brakes for the Gross Weight increase or the Encore doesn't need it?

Not that he needs to do this since it's his thread, but if @redbaron1982 just deleted the thread and after using Garmin Pilot 30 days gave us his opinion on it in a new thread it would a breath of fresh air.

Is there are echo in here .. lol?

Plus even if takes 2 years to get the reman, the new owner can continue to fly the airplane on condition until the new engine arrives. If the present owner has flown it intelligently enough to get it to 2300 hours and the borescope looks good I would be more comfortable flying 200 hours on this engine than than the first 200 on the new "unproven" engine.

So let's say you shaved 3 gallons her hour off of your fuel flow and let's say that you were only climbing at a meager 200 feet per minute. To get from 12000 to FL180 would take you 30 minutes or 1.5 gallons extra. At $6 per gallon, congratulations you saved $9. Don't spend it all in one place. Even if you saved twice that much I don't think it will change your standard of living. I would suggest that you get up to your eastbound tailwind altitude by using max fuel flow so you can enjoy the benefit of the tailwind that much sooner - it will most likely save you much more that leaning in climb.

My mistake you are absolutely correct. In my mind I was crossing the gross weight increase for the Encore, which does require dual puck brakes, with the gross weight increase for the M20M. My apologies.

Plus why does @Jackk feel the need to include "ed" in his profile? If he has erectile dysfunction that's between him and his urologist. We don't need to know about that. (Although that might explain why he's so irritable.)

First of all there's no proof at this point that it's a Bravo. The ad lists a TIO-540-AF1A engine, which was an original engine without the Bravo conversion. The only way to get a Bravo engine now for this airplane is to do a factory exchange (they will take an -AF1A as core credit on a -AF1B). By the time you do that with installation, etc, etc that will be an extra $100,000. Also this is serial number 27-0088, so it's before the dual puck brakes, which means no gross weight increase. It probably has the original landing gear motor, budget $15,000-$20,000 for the updated gear motor. These items are just scratching the surface. 35 year old paint, interior, panel, no ads-b, fuel tanks?, etc, etc. If he gave it to you free and you put in $275,000 you could have an airplane worth $250,000 - $275,000 .. maybe, but no logs. If the seller gets $125,000 he will be doing very well on this airplane. I wouldn't trust the engine that's on that airplane.

There's a South Africa Acclaim that's for sale on Controller where the owner came up with a make-shift switch guard. That owner must have brushed against A/P switch a few times just like I did mine. I like the switch guard @Flyler designed a lot better than this guy's though.