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LANCECASPER

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  1. On final if he got too slow that would be helpful. On the dreaded "too low-too slow-overflown" tight base to final stall-spin, it happens so fast by the time he would have heard the warning he would be in the spin. I don't have one on my present airplane, but an angle of attack indicator with audio may have been helpful.
  2. There's nothing magic about Plexus. In fact I think you would throw rocks at Plexus after using Klear-to-Land. https://dwdavies.com/product/klear-to-land https://store.dwdavies.com/content/klear-land Shipping is high on their website so it's probably just easier to add it to a Spruce order. https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cspages/dwdavies08-12390.php Or just get it in a gallon jug and put it in a spray bottle. https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cspages/dwdavies08-13475-8.php I've used a lot fo different things and got a deal at one of the airshows on Clear View. It was good, probably about the same as Plexus, but not as good as Klear-to-Land. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  3. I was only commenting on the ability to change the font size. I had two Aspens in an Ovation that I owned and three in a Bravo, which I upgraded to MAX units in 2019. I always just used the markers on the AI for my turns (20 degrees roughly standard rate).
  4. On the of the improvements listed in the MAX improvements is "Font and Window Enlargement capability"
  5. E. I. came out with a better resolution screen and better refresh rate around 2018 I think. @oregon87 could tell you how much it is to upgrade to the newer display.
  6. @donkaye has had an MVP-50 longer than probably anyone else on Mooneyspace.
  7. Legally, your ship's gauge is the certified gauge even though it's older technology and an old instrument. Your JPI-EDM, if it's not a 900 or 930 is advisory only.
  8. My older brother had his left eye done a couple of weeks ago - great results. He’ll get the right one done in a couple weeks.
  9. While the pursuit of useful load is a worthy pursuit, I see people going nuts on some things. During an "upgrade", taking out a working stormscope or strike finder to save a few pounds makes no sense to me when they are so useful if you read up on how to use them.
  10. (Of course you have the riveted clamp - if you look through your logs it was mandatory that the older clamps had to be replaced somewhere around 20 years ago.) Mooney says you get two documented retorques on the riveted clamp. These retorques should be logged. The part of the AD that does apply is that if you haven't exceeded the number of retorques, rather than replacing it by time in service only, it can be inspected by an IA.
  11. There's a classified section to list items for sale if you are a supporter.
  12. That hose that runs from your oil fill tube back to your air/oil separator needs to be replaced (left arrow below). It was once a yellow material like the one you see next to it (right arrow), but the oil "sludge" that fills up that hose affects the pressure in your cylinders and "cokes" them up which causes the compressions to go low. The Tygon (yellow) hoses should really be inspected and cleaned (and I feel replaced) every 100 hours. It's very inexpensive. The black Gates brand hose that runs from the bottom of the air/oil separator down to the pilot's side tailpipe gets clogged also and needs to be replaced or cleaned every 100 hours (https://www.mooney.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/SBM20-312.pdf). If the Acclaim has been maintained by someone that knows Acclaims these items will have been done regularly.
  13. The TSIO-550-G and the TSIO-550-N use the same cylinders. https://www.airpowerinc.com/resources?id=4 On these cylinders there are two choices, Steel (https://www.airpowerinc.com/658815A3) and Nickel Carbide (https://www.airpowerinc.com/resources?id=4)
  14. The Same cylinder is used on the G engine as the N engine on the TSIO-550 on the Acclaim (TSIO-550-G1 and then after the heater modification it became a -G3) https://www.airpowerinc.com/658815A3
  15. Perhaps it was one of the Hofer's neighbors that bought it? It flew a lot last week at the home base where the Hofer's live, 14A. Or maybe that was a few minutes of transition training before moving it to it's new home base in FL? On Sunday it flew from 14A to St. Augustine. Not that it makes the situation any better, but it does make a lot more sense that a new-in-type pilot would have been more distracted by what happened and perhaps more likely for an overshoot on base to final. Either way very sad and condolences to the families of the pilot and passenger.
  16. Actually if you pull the FAA documents it goes back to August 1998 when his LLC Hofer Aero was based in Michigan.
  17. I've also had the passenger door pop open 3 times on Mooneys I've owned over the years. I've never been able to close it in the air, other than being a nuisance, not a big deal. This placard should be on every Mooney passenger door(https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cspages/warningonlythepilotplacard.php?clickkey=6452) : Regarding the baggage door though, it's not usually the baggage door popping open that's the problem, it's the major distraction it creates. I've mentioned this on Mooneyspace before, but it's worth repeating. My experience with that: In September 1996 I bought a new Mooney TLS Bravo, and in early summer 1997 a friend needed me to drive him up to catch a commercial flight in Austin TX. No problem, I'll fly you to Austin Mueller (now closed). He had flown with me many times and knew that hot starts in Texas summers can be tricky. We went over it before we ever left the ground. He was going to exit the airplane, get his bag, shut the baggage door and walk behind the airplane to the FBO for his ride to the terminal while I kept it at idle and didn't have to shut down. We landed, taxied, we went over it again, he exited, got his bag. I got my clearance, taxied, took off and shortly after take-off I heard a loud bang from the back of the airplane - the baggage door has popped open on my new airplane. I was sure it had probably exited the airframe and had taken the tail section with it. I let the tower know what happened and that I was coming around to land on the perpendicular runway - all the way picturing what my airplane must look like. I turned final and wanted to get this thing on the ground to assess the damage. On final, a Delta pilot waiting for take-off, who had heard everything, says "Mooney, check your gear down". I got that horrible feeling. I would like to think that I would have made a short-final gumps check, but I'm not sure. After all was said and done after landing and then taxiing to the FBO and looking over the airplane, I closed the baggage door, locked it and there wasn't a scratch or a bend anywhere on the airplane. I had turned a minor distraction into what could have been a major problem. In this case in St. Augustine I would guess the distraction of the door opening caused a pilot, who had owned his airplane 25 years and was very familiar with it, to over-react and lose his concentration. Also I noticed he had the long range tanks (104 gallons) and since 252s are very challenged from a gross weight perspective if he was over-gross the handling is not the same in a tight turn from base to final.
  18. Hopefully @isaacpr7 answers, but it's been over 3 years since he last visited Mooneyspace.
  19. I haven't listened to the ATC recording, but what I don't understand, looking at his track, is why he didn't declare an emergency and land back on 13. He was on a left downwind for it after take turning crosswind.
  20. Here's the real scoop: "Despite false rumors and misinformation that the hugely popular Garmin GNS-series navigators are at the end of their service life, Garmin says that 99 percent of GNS users can keep using their units. Moreover, the Garmin factory will still continue to support common repairs and refurbishments as it has for the past 25 years."
  21. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/371054 Wow we've lost two 252s in the past week. They only made two hundred thirty one of them to begin with. https://www.wokv.com/news/local/st-johns-county/st-johns-deputies-responding-reported-plane-crash-north-northeast-florida-regional-airport/RATGNFEU2ZAEHIUQ6R2HQK4U4U/ They didn’t get very far after take-off This looks like the airplane from the last time it was for sale: https://www.aircraft.com/aircraft/223027779/n4387w-1987-mooney-m20k-252tse (Beautiful airplane, but the OCD in me asks why would you let the paint shop use an upside-down "M" stencil instead of a "W"?) Looks like the airplane belonged to Ronald Hofer of Mooresville NC (14A), Lake Norman Airpark. He appears to have owned it since August of 1998.
  22. That means you shouldn't have to change them again until 2079
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