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Alan, do you have a Britian autopilot with alt hold?

Thanks for sharing!

Mooneybuilder, take everyone’s advice on this board, but don't let them get to you. I am sure you are a nice person and you were upset with Don, who might have been a bad day. The worst thing you can do on this board is go into defense mode. There are many people trolling this site waiting for someone to pounce on. I am sorry you had a bad personal experience with Don Maxwell and I can understand the fact that you want everyone to know about that experience as well. On a much brighter note, Don has done some work on my plane and has offered some advice which I am very grateful of and my experience with Don has been excellent. I wish you the best of luck with fellowshipping with the Mooneyspace community.

Has anyone modified their baffling to remove the aluminum on top of the engine like the newer planes?

Very nice bird!

Why did you have to post that video? Nightmares will now proceed. Actually these videos along with NTSB reports are a good thing to remind us to be safe. Yes, it can happen to me!

Sorry, meant on the right side I still have alot going on with the switches, etc..... Its not a $100k avionics stack, but its a M20C so its not worth dumping a ton of cash into the panel. With this I will have a much more capable instrument platform and it will get rid of just about all the old sh%^ty wiring that has been a pain since I bought her. With my foreflight with stratus I think I will be in good shape.

http://mooneyspace.com/gallery/image/36284-mooney-panel/ Here is what she will look like. On the left side there will be plenty of breakers, switched, JPI etc.....

The current panel is the "shotgun panel" the new one will be the standard 6 pack configuration.

Roger that! Good luck with your project. I am sure there are pleanty of EE's on here that will chime in on this thread soon.

hmm..... But one instrument? How many amps is it drawing? Right now I have a 70amp plane power alt running 50 amps until I upgrade the breaker and wire. I am sure 50 should be good for me. Also, with 24v from what I understand, I will have greater transmit power.

Yeah, I have that bend in the middle. From what I understand, making a flat panel work is pretty easy to do.

You can buy a 12V to 28V converter. I am doing a panel upgrade myself and the avionics engineer friend of mine had some goodies, but were all 28V. He is going to get some sort of converter to power those avionics. I can ask him what he is using if you would like. I dont think they are that expensive. I am installing: Garmin420 GPS Nav Com Sandel 3308 with gyro KX 165 nav/com with glideslope. Dynon backup AI Panel Mount for 496 I know some might think its not worth installing the 420, but I got a really good price on all this stuff and I am saving a ton of money with the free install (Myself under supervision from Mr. Miyagi)

Forgot to mention, after sprayed thouroughly, run at a low rpm for 5 to 10 mins. If you run it fast, it will just blow oil everywhere making it hard to pinpoint the leak.

You can use avgas or kerosene in a sprayer. I prefer avgas, or you can use real gas. But kerosene will not dry rot the seals in the sprayer as fast, but it's more volital.

Enfield.family at gmail dot com thank you very much! I will post pics when I am done.

Mine was leaking from the back of the oil pan. Took me 4 years to find it, but by tightening the 4 bolts in the back of the pan fixed it. They are very hard to get to. It took 2 hrs with a flexible extension to get to them. Also look at your return tubes and see if they are rubbing against any baffling. A little pinhole can cause a serious leak. Since those lines have no pressure they can be brazed.

Does anyone have the CAD files for a M20C instrument panel? I was thinking about using the old one as a template, but a drawing would be much better.

Or you can just convert to Plane Power and be done with it.

I would check the belt.

Where did you get that? We are about to set mine up for the standard 6 pack scan.

Does it have ALT hold? Do it work with the brittian wing leveler?

Also cycle your gear and check the doors. Mine was pulling to the left and it appears that my gear is haning on one side a couple inches lower.

I have an 8000' runway I do: No flaps on takeoff (unless shorter field) Full Power Climb 25/26 or 25/25 Cruise leaned for around 10-11 GPH 17-1800 RPM for runup. I used to do cut the power back 25/26 for climb and run at 22/23 but I had one cylinder that was not breaking in properly and my mechanic told me to run the crap out of it. Our engines are high performance and they like to be ran. Since using the higher power settings, my cylinder is broken in, plugs do not foul and I am able to go faster. For now, I would just do what your instructor says and pull the power back to make him happy. My instructor has over 8k hrs of instructing and thats what he did. Basically, there is a 1000 ways to skin a cat and all methods from the experts are acceptable.