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LANCECASPER

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  1. I'm not a fan of removing things that are perfectly functional plus the KFC150 was the best GA autopilot of its time. However, although it may be working very well now, the truth is it's close to 40 years old. At this stage, spending good money on an extra GI-275 plus all of the additional labor to interface Garmin equipment to the King a/p would be much better spent toward a GFC500. The first time you need to have your King A/P repaired you will kick yourself for not doing it all together.
  2. These shops all basically use the same suppliers. if one shop is telling you they can have it back in less time, it sounds great, but it might mean that they are overly optimistic or it could mean that they are short on work (cash flow). Getting a deposit might be paying this month's overhead and your airplane may sit in the corner of their hangar or outside until the parts are available. The best shops, which are the ones you want to do your work, have quite a wait.
  3. You might want to quote @Alan Fox's post, or include him in your question or send him a private message so he gets pinged and knows you made the request?
  4. You have an early 201 (1977) and I've heard that there are some variances throughout the J model that require modifications. Your installer should call Garmin and verify this.
  5. If you’re using Tapatalk you might not see his profile on each of his posts
  6. I found it . .it’s right there in the first picture . . lol If you’re looking for a new one you might have to pull that and see what it’s rated at and who made it. It looks like it’s been replaced. Once you find that information then something like this might work: https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/elpages/racbezelswitches.php?clickkey=4681 or https://www.steinair.com/product/locking-toggle-switch-spst-onoff/ However if your avionics are staying on with the master off it's likely your relay.
  7. Those are the ones for the Acclaim. The Bravo that Rick has used the larger Shaw fuel caps, but the neck might be a similar depth
  8. When a capacitor leaks it sometimes damages the board. If I remember correctly there was a time frame in the 90's where boards were not holding up very well if the capacitor leaked. @Jake@BevanAviation would know for sure if this capacitor could be replaced and he would be the guy to do it if it could be done.
  9. Put a Medeco lock on the door whether you have buttons or a key switch if you want to avoid airplane or avionics theft. They will move to the next airplane on the ramp . . . or use a crowbar. . . lol. Every reputable FBO has a chain where they keep about 15-20 keys that will open and start any Cessna, Mooney, Piper, etc that have the standard file cabinet locks. Plus no turboprop or jet I've ever seen has an ignition key,. https://aircraftsecurity.com/
  10. It looks like you have them 90 degrees off (vertically instead of horizontally). The legal answer is an owner can't do any alteration, minor or major. A minor alteration just requires a logbook entry by an A & P, not a form 337, which is required for a Major alteration.
  11. When I switched out Visors in the last Bravo I owned I used a company called StickerYou.com and sent them a picture of what I wanted on the visors. I put all of the information in an .xls file, got it just the way I wanted and then send them a .pdf of that. They printed it so that it was white letters on clear. They turned out well.
  12. It sounds like you have one that needs to be rebuilt. In 2018 I sent both of mine to Aero Accessories in Van Nuys CA. They did a great job.
  13. If he is that busy and that highly regarded, he would be the one I'd want. Your insurance company will want someone with a certain number of hours in type. But someone with a lot of Mooney experience, rather than just the minimum, will be worth the wait.
  14. Back in 2020 I did a new panel on a Bravo that I owned. On the lower left I put in an Electroair switch for the magnetos (https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/elpages/ea_08-17141.php?clickkey=18187), but got rid of the frame that their switches come with and just had the labels put on the panel itself.
  15. If you have the 262 you have the -MB engine which has the option of two alternators. Was that a Husky wrench?
  16. Are both of them the original ES4009LS alternators? Or has one been changed to a Plane Power alternator?
  17. One of the first things I do when I buy an airplane is buy new stainless screws for the inspection panels. On some of the old screws (with paint on) the heads strip out easily and have to be removed with an ez-out. After the first annual I have all new screws so taking off the inspection panels for the next annual goes much easier. In years after that, if a screw head looks questionable I never put it back in - it'll look worse by the time I get it out the next year. Also I never "remove" the panel for the annual. I leave one screw on the end of the panel and loosen it so I can pivot it out of the way for the inspection. No lost panels during the annual.
  18. Check with Darwin Conrad up at Rocket Engineering in Spokane, WA. If he doesn’t have them, then it’s time to talk to @DonMuncy about some much better visors than the original Mooney visors.
  19. Kerry used to do articles for the MAPA magazine - very knowledgable.
  20. About three or four times a month a new person comes on and asks the same question - Can I sit in a Mooney? Not passing any judgment, just an observation. https://www.google.com/search?q=Mooneyspace:+"sit+in+it"+site:mooneyspace.com&sca_esv=0302d0aa8eaed1b9&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS1031US1031&sxsrf=ACQVn09dljK_MmV-q-iYB8YgQcq0FVNSow:1710198028946&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjA2oqQqO2EAxWQ_8kDHWF2D4UQrQIoBHoECBUQBQ&biw=1609&bih=970&dpr=2#ip=1 If someone doesn't respond to have you come and sit in their Mooney, my guess it that if you just go find a Toyota Yaris or a Honda Fit and both climb in the passenger side (since Mooneys made before 2017 have one door), it will be pretty close. Since 11,000 Mooneys were made they have fit every size and shape of person made, some more comfortably than others. I personally know someone 6'9" that flew one for years. I know someone else less than 5 feet tall that flies one. Ingress and egress in most airplanes is not graceful, but once you're sitting there, buckled in, it's fine.
  21. Unless this guy specializes in recent Mooneys I would thank him for his time and pay him and get it out of there. Call Brian Kendrick if you want someone to look at it that knows what they are doing. Mooneysupport.com
  22. Not an Ovation - wrong cowling. Plus it's a mid-body, not a long body. But I like the paint job also. The records show it had some hail damage a few years back and some skins replaced. I'm guessing that's when the paint was done. It's N1085C, a 1990 M20K (252) that last arrived Tuesday March 5 - based there. https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N1085C
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