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Yes, it’s Markus‘ private server. He provided storages as EMPOA‘s server didn‘t have space. I‘ll have to ask him. Sorry about that! Update: Markus said that the server should be up again in a minute

Last spring/summer, we flew our Encore-converted 252 around the world. For those interested, I've finally finished the report on our journey. It's a bit lengthy, but after all the journey was rather lengthy as well There is an online version here: Heading East I also created an ebook with exactly the same content. Several formats can be downloaded for free here. I didn't know in which section I should put this post. I chose this one because the trip started/ended in Europe.

Thank you all And happy new year!

The first video on our RTW trip is online. It’s quite short and provides an overview:

That’s interesting. When we were in Argentina in 2018, our 252 shared a hanger with this aircraft for a few days. I don’t know what happened in the meantime but it was a Liquid Rocket with the LTSIO550 back then. We didn’t get in contact with the owner, another Argentinian Mooney pilot had arranged the hanger for us. Never before (and not after) had I seen a Liquid Rocket an I was amazed to find on in Argentina!

Oops, I missed this, sorry. Anyway, Matthias has already mentioned the important topics. One more thing to be considered is licensing. The dreaded EASA dual papers requirement may apply if you move your residency to Berlin but I‘m not sure.

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We flew our Mooney from Germany to Australia last year and returned this spring. Here is a little video series about the getting there: Hope you like it!

Thank you RM is 25-1230, in fact the last 252 built.

Thanks for all the replies and sorry for being late myself! Wifi was terrible in Lombok and it’s not much better here in Dili. Anyway, it’s only two and a half hours from here to Darwin and we‘ll be there the day after tomorrow. The Asic card we remembered from last time. We’ve applied for one and we should be able to collect it in Darwin. Concerning the throttle lock I think we‘ll take a rather relaxed approach And yes, we already got many invitations after Tina wrote to AMPA. It seems, that most of you are based in the East and South (well, not hard to guess when looking at a map of Australia ). We plan to visit the red center and Queensland first but we want to fly all the way down to Tasmania. I‘ll post updates here. Thanks again, Gunter

We are on the way from Europe to Australia with our 252. Actually we have made good progress, we’re currently in Lombok, Indonesia. If all goes well, we’ll arrive in Darwin by Thursday this week. Our plan is to fly around the country for a couple of weeks. I have some questions and I know there are Aussies here, at least @Mooney in Ozdoesn’t disguise his home base. I‘m not completely new to flying in Australia, we have been down under twice and rented an aircraft. Once out of Sydney and once out of Perth. Altogether I have about 50 hours VFR in Australia under the belt. From our previous visits I know that CASA mandates this (somewhat quirky) throttle lock and we don’t have one. Is there chance to get one that fits a 252 once we arrive in Darwin? We‘ll have to change the oil at some point. At home I do that myself, but away from base we’ll need a shop where we can cut open the filter, get rid of the oil and so on. A borescope to peek into the cylinders would also be good. Does anybody have a recommendation? And finally, more general: Where should we fly to? Is there a place we must visit besides the famous tourist destinations like Uluru? Or maybe we could even meet and have a beer?

Yes, exactly. With our 252 these were pop rivets. I’m not sure if they were original or there was work done before.

We’re based in Germany and had it done by a shop in Gera, Germany: Olaf Roth Aircraft Painting We are quite happy with the result and the way we worked with Olaf and his team. This will probably be of little interest to most here but maybe another European owner comes across this.