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For $80 I'd send your Battery Minder in for the update. That last 10% that you get in charge is sometimes the difference you need. You bought the best battery, get the most out of it.

I am willing to bet that the nice K on your field is N40FM - a '97 Encore.

The M20L had the same gear as the J/K, if I remember correctly, which needed to be more robust for the longer, heavier L. Part of the Gross Weight Increase on later models (M/R/TN) was also better brakes. This type of thread comes up at least once a year when a reasonably priced L converted to a IO-550 comes on the market. Once the person really thinks about the lack of useful load and nonexistent resale value they move usually move on.

2199 was a great price for the ESG, was that an Oshkosh deal?

+1 Don has flown his M20M for many years now and has more time in an M20M than probably any other instructor around. He did an excellent seminar in Kerrville on Friday.

In thinking about this a few minutes, you're right. About 12 years ago I had the annual from hell (almost three months with very few discrepancies) where the shop owner and his IA were fighting for weeks and I was caught in the crossfire. I didn't have a problem getting my logs back but can see the potential for that. It's not worth the risk.

Crown Air is top notch - Dave Gill won my trust on a very thorough pre-buy that they did at a very fair price. They'll take good care of your logs. Just make sure you have a back up. They can probably thumb through a log book faster than looking at the digital version which might save you some of their time.

The winglets show up best on #5

If there's any place on the planet where you need A/C it's Houston TX

Toyota 4 runner headrests reportedly work http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=toyota+4+runner+headrest&_sacat=0

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If you get an Acclaim and you live in Houston get one with Air Conditioning!

Red is also a good color for the A/P circuit breaker http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/elpages/edmobreakercaps.php?clickkey=516724

The bottom part number is 649281. (I think there's a typo on the top number - it says 646281R - should say 649281R) Here's an option: http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/elpages/electrosysalt4.php

I sold the 2000 Ovation the end of August and closed on a hangar home near Kerrville September 29

Sorry - yes it is sold

On the Ovation that I sold, the previous owner when he installed a dual Aspen had to install an Electric Attitude with battery backup (since the vacuum system was removed), and leave the Altimeter and Airspeed indicator. It's my understanding that the G5 is only certified as a replacement for an Attitude Indicator or Turn Coordinator. http://newsroom.garmin.com/press-release/featured-releases/garmin-introduces-g5-electronic-flight-instrument-certificated-aircr I think the Sandia Quattro is certified for backup for all of the six pack. Tons of info to wade through here: http://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=112613&hilit=sandia+quattro

Here's one of the videos Erik, the previous owner, made of N6801N.

How much for the overhaul?

The electric cowl flap motor can be troublesome and very expensive to repair. Sometimes cowl flap motors have been nearly impossible to get.

It probably got too close to a Gill Battery

Let me guess . . It's a Gill?

You're overthinking this - the spark plug resides inside a combustion chamber. If it makes you feel better put a little 100LL on a rag, clean it off of the insulator, put it back in and you should be good to go. I'd be more concerned as to whether you had the torque wrench set correctly when you put it back in. Many times when you take plug out of a car or airplane engine it seems like a gorilla installed them.

Years ago I considered N622MA (picture below) that had a black instrument panel, Century 2000 A/P and one alternator, no oxygen, no speed brakes, no HSI - thankfully I didn't buy it. I learned that there were a few stripped down 252's produced, without the 2 alternators (look for the split Alternator Field Switch next to the Master - the one alternator models don't show L and R). Apparently one of their flaws is that they eat batteries like crazy. Other examples of a one alternator 252's would be N252AR and N252PB that are for sale on Controller.

I've heard that a Garmin GTN750 runs about $17000 installed and a GTN650 about $12000 installed. In December 2014 I paid $13500 for package deal on an Avidyne IFD540 and an Avidyne AXP 340 transponder. No install cost on the IFD540 since it was a slide-in replacement for a 530W. Relatively low install cost on the AXP340 since it was replacing a KT76C (same size, same antenna, just a WAAS position source needed to be wired in.) I got $8000 for my Garmin 530W and $900 for my KT76C, making the cost of my upgrade $4600 plus $400 install on the transponder. Later I bought an IFD440 for $9000 and got $6500 for my 430W, net $2500, again with no install cost. My net cost was $7100 plus about $400 install of the transponder. To do a 750/650 upgrade from the 530W/430W it would have cost $29000 - $8000 for the 530W - 6500 for the 430W, or 14500 net. Plus I would have had to buy and pay install costs on a transponder, say $3500. So for me it was $7100 vs. $18000. And Wifi and Bluetooth were included but cost extra on the Garmin. For me it was a no brainer. When I bought the next airplane and had to start from scratch with a new WAAS GPS I again bought an IFD540/AXP340/MLB100. Garmin allowed Avidyne to get traction in the market by not engineering a less expensive installation cost for their new boxes for 530W/430W owners. They had a captive market ready to upgrade.