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  1. MooneyMark
    Yes it does show zero RPM. You have a sharp eye! The connector went south on the way over there.
  2. MooneyMark
    I made a longer version, I did not have much material to work with tho. Hope it's entertaining in this time of lock-down! Stay healthy all.
  3. MooneyMark
    I have uploaded the last part, too. My very last landing with a plane that's very dear to me. Sad to see her go.
  4. MooneyMark
    Yes, ATC: ‘increase rate of descent to 1.500 fpm or greater’, me ‘rogerrrr’
  5. MooneyMark
    I used the speedbrakes not that much on the 252, but every once in I while I was very happy to have them.
  6. MooneyMark
    Finally got around to creating the video I wanted to make from my last flight with my Mooney. Felt a bit like therapy reviewing all the footage.
  7. MooneyMark
    Really nice, thanks for sharing!
  8. MooneyMark
    That was a sad accident indeed. I fly with my girls all the time, makes you think. I’d never fly in that crap weather tho, it is ‘just’ a hobby.
  9. MooneyMark
    Oh it was a sticker you had to wear On your clothes, in order to return airside in Valencia, Spain. When I got back in the Mooney I stuck it there and kind of forgot about it.
  10. MooneyMark
    Got a new laptop! I tried it out by making this very short video, regretfully I had only one GoPro and no audio. But I tried to make it nice with some local color!
  11. MooneyMark
    Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind! It’s like saying goodbye to a close friend.
  12. MooneyMark
    Ah well, you know what they say...
  13. MooneyMark
    I dropped her off wednesday.
  14. MooneyMark
    Yes, just around the corner in Germany.
  15. MooneyMark
    Very sad to see her go, but she's sold.
  16. MooneyMark
    Interesting! Never looked at it that way, but that makes sense. No ADS-B weather here in Europe, so I have nothing to complain about.
  17. MooneyMark
    Guess you’ve got a point there
  18. MooneyMark
    BEM is 2060 lbs (have to look that up tho...) and MTOM is 2900 lbs.
  19. MooneyMark
    Hello, I’ve been unsuccessful in finding a co-owner for my 1987 M20K 252 sn 25-1145, and it makes little economic sense to fly her all by my self so I decided to sell her. 1250 hrs tt per end July. Sold Equipment COM 1: Garmin GNS 530W COM 2: Garmin GNC 255A NAV 1: Garmin GNS 530W NAV 2: Garmin GNC 255A Audio panel: Bendix/King KMA-24 Intercom: Isocom SCI-4 ADF: Bendix/King KR-87 DME: Bendix/King KN-64 Stormscope: 3M WX-950 ADL150 Satellite weather receiver (2018) HSI: Bendix/King KCS-55A Autopilot: Bendix/King KAP-150 with yaw damper Transponder: Garmin GTX-330 GPS: Garmin GNS 530W (with trafic and fuelflow) Garmin GTS800 Traffic Info System (2018) JPI-EDM 700 Engine monitor (2019) ELT: Artex ME-406 Hot prop, Hartzell 2 blade with q-tips (new blades december 2019, 40 hrs) LED landing lights Dual alternators Built in oxygen (bottle overhauled 2020) Speedbrakes Bruce’s Travel Canopy cover (2016) Battery tender I am assembling a website where I try to collect all the relevant info, it is a work in progress so bare with me. You’ll find more info on the engine, logs etc. M20K252.com She is based in The Netherlands. Happy landings, Mark
  20. MooneyMark
    Hmmm, well you could be right. Strickt adherence to that one would ground most GA airplanes. As most of them have crap fuel gauges. I wouldn’t say the gauges are ‘not working’, they are just very pessimistic the last 15 gallons and have been pretty reliable at that for the past 22 years the Mooney has been in my family.
  21. MooneyMark
    La Mia Flight 2933 comes to mind too, these guys took off knowing they had insufficient fuel, needed to hold en ran out and crashed.
  22. MooneyMark
    Thanks for all the replies! I'm taking it all in. I think I'll run both tanks dry (not on the same flight...), take notes and compare gauges readings while refuelling.
  23. MooneyMark
    Mine is starting to crack around the screws. Should you have a nice one, you’d like to part with, please let me know! Needs to ship overseas (Netherlands).
  24. MooneyMark
    With the gauges on the wings and in the cockpit near zero, my M20K never takes more fuel then 50 gallons at the pump. The capacity is 76 gallons so I always land with way more fuel on board then I think. Yesterday I pushed my flight a little longer with the gauges uncomfortably reading 1 gallon and both the low fuel annunciators burning, yet the calculated landing fuel on board was 18 gallons. She took 60 gallons this time, so I guess the calculated fuel on board wins. Some uneasy flying tho. I refueled with the nose a little higher then on a completely level surface. Does that impact the amount of fuel I can add to the tanks? When refueling, the fuel gets up to those ‘anti-siphon’ doors easily. But then the topping up starts. This seems it could go on endlessly, if I just rock the wings a little back and forth. When do you guys say, this is full? I always fly with a big fuel margin, but to never use about one third of the fuel on board is silly, so I thought I’d dig in and see if it was really there. And it was. I stayed close to the airport by the way. Good to get to know the aircraft a little better again. It was a sad day for flying, last weekend we lost three young dutch glider pilots in two separate accidents. I started out flying gliders and I heard the ELT blaring on the 121.5 from the last crash, gave me the shivers. Stay safe!
  25. MooneyMark
    Up in the air again, I met up with a good friend who took some air-to-air shots. Had to slow the Mooner down and ad some flaps to be able to stay in formation, the other ship was a tad slower. Things of beauty, the airplanes we fly!
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