Bob_Belville

Glad that's cleared up. I don't suppose even a good wife has to be OK with 2 Mooneys mistresses at once.

Thanks! The E is my favorite model. Yeah, 2-4 amp is pretty typical after the battery is up to full charge which might take 5 minutes from startup. (New PlanePower 70A alternator.) I'm thinking the new avionics are pretty low draw (except for the color TV screens.)

Tom, between you, Larry and me your E has quite a few thousand hours over that last 37 years. Has that old manual gear ever needed expensive maintenance? Not in my nearly 2500 hours...

Don't give it away. I hate to see planes changing hands at desperation prices. They're not making any more Mooneys and the good ones should be worth a price representative of their usefulness. (Disclosure, I have a few extra bucks invested in an old E and I hope my heirs get a decent % of that back.) My wife is not that confident a flyer but she trusts her pilot. And she like to visit far away grandsons. I can always remind her she was the one who gave me my first lesson under the Xmas tree (in 1968) so...

I'd add one good habit to acquire. Before I touch the Johnson Bar latch I use my right arm to insure the area between the seats is clear. Lots of stuff can wander into that space, nature abhors a vacuum. I then scold any regular passengers who ought to know better than to stick something in the DMZ.

Redline for my E is 245F. see bar graph on the EDM930 attached. I'm thinking the top of the green, 225F, is the alarm. FYI, the owner select-able parameters for my 930 are currently: autoscan rate 4 trip use no egt disp 1s OAT F HP constant 125 MAP adj +0.0 k factor 30.86 carb? n gps format #1 shadin record time 6 While I was chasing the MP jumpiness I set the record time to 1 = save data every second to get a really fine graph. You'll note that on this flight my temps look great. But I'm running 60%, LOP. Got passed by a Super Cub pulling a banner. see Aspen pic - 168 mph = 146k tas @ 9000.

Good idea. I don't suppose that would help me with the legal issue that the avionics shop came up against. I pressed them hard to find a way to set up Aspen in mph. (The GTN750, GPS696 and JPI EDM930 are all in knots.)

The town of Wiscasset is the FBO. The lady is very pleasant and helpful but I had to bring my own tie down ropes even though the ramp was not more than 1/2 full that week. She is the only one on duty. They have two rental cars available on the field provided by a local car dealer, @ $50/day plus tax, older vehicles with over 100,000 miles. Enterprise is only available in town and their hours are limited. I don't know if they've run off business, activity was very slow for a summer week. I could not raise ATC on the ground to get an IFR clearance. The phone numbers posted in the office were wrong.

Cross country. I'm pretty sure I have more hours, 3000, than landings. I guess if local flying was my interest I would own a Super Cub or a Pitts, not a Mooney.

Of course my old E is much lighter than Js, either older ones or newer. And @ 2575 lighter than Fs (2740) with the same HP. My E has all 201 mods so it should be pretty fast. However my cowling must be a disadvantage because I run hotter that most of you guys report. 100 ROP, 65% power, in the summer I have to open cowl flaps to keep oil temp below 200. 75% would be unacceptably hot. The plane is down for annual this week and I've shipped oil cooler and vernatherm valve to POC for overhaul. Maybe that will help.

If you go back to my first post I answer that point. I may be mis-remembering but I think I read/heard that Roy Lopresti did the calculations and determined there was not much advantage. Check out the promo video on the 301 (which had a conventional tail) that has been posted on one of our FB sites and elsewhere recently.

I think you're overstating how much the tail moves. A Mooney tail looks like a Mooney tail whether at red line descent or at full flaps touch down.

Yeah, the reason Robbie said we had to use mph was that the "Owners Manual" is in mph. My ASI has both scales with knots being the primary. The previous owner thought that was factory original but I have not confirmed that. I think most '66 era Mooneys were set up mph.

It would be really close! What was your power setting @ 152k tas? I'm jealous that you were able to get your Aspen calibrated in knots. My shop was told they had to set up mine in mph since that was certification mode. I notice that the '66E that's flying to France has a new Aspen in knots.?

You need to read up on Al Mooney! It's an M20...you do know what that means, right?

I've understood that Al was such a fanatic about drag that he designed the rudder to be normal to the relative wind @ high AOA (landing mode, most importantly) so that the wetted area could be the smallest possible. ISTM Lopesti may have decades later calculated that it was not that big a difference.

I'm wondering if my little old E might mop the sky with both of you... just sayin'

FWIW, my GTN 750 came with 2 TSO's cards. 7.38GB ea. but only 1.66 GB is being used for subscription: US Standard + FliteCharts PilotPak.

I have 2 plexiglas landing light covers on my E. (Optional supplemental landing light per STC SA2513NM) "Installed landing light covers after FAA field approval on F337 received.") 4 L brackets riveted inside the opening. Pretty simple. The edges of the lenses are chamfered and pull into the opening as the screws are tightened. http://mooneyspace.com/gallery/image/33732-2013-01-28-n943rw-close-up/

I don't have their new cooler and can't provide a PIREP. I did ship my 8432L to them Friday for overhaul while the plane is down for annual. The overhaul price is $167 including checking out the vernatherm. Their new cooler for my model was about $600.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N9201R

Several pics, no tail #. http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2013/08/mooney-man-and-woman-confirmed-dead-in.html

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/1d8115513f434b5eb832af4ff343c6ad/MO--KC-Small-Plane-Crashes

Now we're talking! Speed! Economy is nice but speed is why we fly Mooney.

I was there a time or 2 in 49M myself. I took comfort that if I could keep her reasonably level and in a reasonable speed range she could stand an awful lot of banging around.