Bob_Belville

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A 696 is mounted on a swivel RAM mount and linked to the GTN 750. I pull up WP page for airport info, XM music, approach plates, check lists, and more. ISTM the yoke is for flying the airplane - controlling the elevator and ailerons. And maybe for keeping headset off the floor when not in use. Seriously, there are quite a few switches and knobs low on the panel, e.g. the Aspen knobs and buttons, that are blocked from sight by anything mounted on the yoke.

Look at the info you share under your name! JKSmith Advanced Member Basic Member 22 56 posts LocationLogan county Ky 5KY4 Reg #:N7122V Model:M20F

5 hours? You must be flying from somewhere other than the Logan County KY area.? Looks like a 440 nm trip.

Yeah, that pointed jack point is what he's talking about but a bolt will accomplish the same thing. He might need a few washers depending upon shape of the cup on the top of his jack. If he has a short enough jack for a Mooney and the correct tube he should be able to change the tire for you.

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Bringing your paint job?

I think a small car is about 12,000 btu. In both cases I suppose the unit is sized to deal with initial temps well over 100 F for a car or plane parked on the ramp in the sun. Maintaining temps below ~80 F would surely take a fraction of that capacity.

The Mooney Caravan plans to move as a flight of 40-50(?) from KMSN to KOSH Sunday morning (7/24). Many will be camping together in the North Forty area. Non-campers will be parking in the North Forty parking area or the Vintage Parking area for plane built before 1971. Nancy and I are not camping so we'll probably be in the vintage parking area. We should be there through Thursday. Mooney International, MAPA, Mooney Ambassadors, Mooney Girls... all will have a presence. There's a site map at the EAA AirVenture website. http://www.mooneycaravan.com/

My A&P/IA works on quite a few Bs and Mooneys. He says he prefers working on Mooneys. (He had to replace 2 cylinders on a Bonanza over the week end and was pointing out to me how much more work it was getting the cylinders off vs a Mooney.)

The guy in the back with Jolie and me is Lynn Mace, A&P/IA a 200#er. Looks pretty comfy to me. The flight with 4 on board was a 3.5 hour flight with overnight luggage. I've been flying M20Es since 1969. I have never, ever, even once, had anyone complain about the leg room in the (free) back seat. Size is overrated.

Hum, LOP cruise is 8.5 gph for when range is important which is 5 hours plus over 1 hour reserve. That's 2 hours longer than I care to fly in one leg. Gross weight is just one number. The higher empty weight in the later models eats up much of the GW increases. I've never felt hampered by an E's 2575. Es are lean, mean flying machines.

Yup. I think that will get cruise to 165 ktas.

The perfect E does exist. Bob Belville owns it. Not yet, but when I get Byron's paint job... Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

Perfect C or E... with electric gear. Oxymoron?

I don't think ROP is in Byron's vocabulary.

Sounds great Nick. I assume we'll get "registration open" notice here.

Hum, I'm thinking giving my friendly AME about $100 every 2 years might continue to be the simplest course. I had the impression that the third class medical reform was going to mean that having a driving licence would allow self evaluation if one had had a 3rd class and had not been rejected.

Dave, isn't there a big difference? You had a problem with a vendor. The vendor acknowledged it and made it right. (I received a throttle cable from McFarlane that had not been milled and drilled for a limit switch, they took responsibility and sent me a correct cable via next day air.) Mistakes happen. McFarlane did good and I'm a fan. It sounds like LASAR did the same in your case. What the original post did that you and I did not do is go public, apparently without giving the vendor the chance to address the problem. If he complained to LASAR and they stiff armed him he has not told us that. Several of us have a suspicion that there at least one other side to this tale of woe.

When I get old I might consider an electric gear but I'm only 73 so that won't be any time soon.

<chuckle> I recently took my friend and local A&P/IA to MooneyMax and Kerrville. Mooney owners are blessed to have folks like DMax, Paul Loewen and several more veterans dedicated to keeping us safe.

This is not the way to handle a disagreement with a repair shop. Certainly not if it has not been preceded by an effort to resolve your dissatisfaction. We have no way to judge whether your tank needed a complete reseal or what you were or were not told and what you agreed to or authorized. As Anthony observed Paul Loewen and LASAR enjoy a fine reputation among Mooney owners particularly for innovative mods and their efforts to keep our plane flying while the factory was almost in mothballs.

I have had this detector in the plane for 1-1/2 years. Works fine, the only issue is that it is not on full time. Turn it on, check that plane is safe, and it turns off after 15 minutes. https://www.zoro.com/uei-test-instruments-carbon-monoxide-detector-0-to-999-ppm-utlc11/i/G7609996/?q=G7609996

Jolie took me up on a offer to fly from MooneyMax in Longview over to Kerrvile for a plant tour last month. Coming back into KGGG she lowered the gear (JBar) from the right seat mostly to be able to share that info with her Right Seat Ready folks that weekend. Piece of cake. Of course her own plane is a '65E with a JBar. However, she and Jan teach their workshops that the non-pilot in the right seat should plan on a gear up landing. I would agree with them that that is much, much safer. A gear up on a runway is a skid of a few hundred feet - probably a non-event, Landing with gear down at 75 mph with no brakes on the right side could very easily get very ugly in the likely event that the non-pilot could not keep it straight down a long runway or even more likely it bounces a couple of times.