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Who you talking about? [emoji1787] Going to a wedding of a friend’s son. Sadly he passed away in his sleep at 61 a few years ago. [emoji3525] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

KUZA doesn’t look like they waive anything. Only Lancaster shows a waiver for one night with fuel. Otherwise it is $50 a night as well. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Wedding is in Rock Hill. Lancaster has a $50/night fee as well. Waived with fuel purchase for the first night. Monroe has more reasonable overnight rates at $10/night. Must be a pretty popular area to command those overnight fees. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

I’m flying down to Rock Hill South Carolina next month with Mrs. Marauder (the skinny one) for a wedding. I found two airports in the vicinity. One is KUZA but when I checked for fees they were $50/night for a Mooney! The other airport is KDCM which has no over night fees but is a little further out and one runway is listed in poor condition. Anyone have experience with either of these airports? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

I would suspect the EA100. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

With a second Aspen, the iPad Mini I use is relegated to charts and on occasion to plot a re-route before sending it over to the GTN. Like you, I have a plus size iPhone as my backup. Works fine for the Garmin Pilot checklists and as a true backup. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

I think you are talking about the expansion of the discs. When the weight is off, they should expand. The shock was on early Mooneys as a way to dampen the nose gear oscillations. It was found not to help much and a service bulletin was issued with a 1.25 pound weight savings.

The only way you will be able to get redundancy for FF is to run a second transducer in series. I would think you could you could put one in line behind or in front of another. The FT-60 has been really reliable for me. For the units that failed, did you have anyone try to determine failure mode? I could see a contaminant restricting the movement of the wheel or a worn wheel. The original FT-60 I had lasted 17 years and it was changed out to a new one since the JPI 900 came with a new one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Thanks. Any advantage of going with one brand over another? The Aeroquip version that is cross referenced is a lot more expensive that the one you posted. Do you know if any have a better track record than another? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

What transducer are you using? Mine is a FT-60. The original one was installed in 1995 when the FP-5L was installed. Upgraded to a new one with the JPI. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Thanks Matt. It’s been on there a long time and doesn’t owe me anything. Hopefully it comes off easily. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

I’ve been where you are. Fortunately during the last install the shop who quoted my replacement left panel said to me that he couldn’t let me leave his shop with a Frankenstein look for the center and right panels. He cut me new panels at no charge just because he wanted people to see a quality job from his shop. Between the naugahyde covering and the extra holes, he was right. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

But him and Jerry W are my role models. Come on, you got to admit watching them is heck of lot more fun than watching professional pilots fly. It’s like a box of chocolate where you know everything you get will have a nut inside. [emoji1787] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Ok Brian. What is it? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Left unit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I have the cowl off and snap this picture. The gizmo on the left I believe is the fuel pressure transducer for the JPI and the one on the right is the one for the EI FP-5L. The red guy below is the fuel flow transducer and it is shared by both. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Here is one of the owner’s video on a recently upgraded 310. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

For you G5 owners with STECs. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

I can handle the fingerprints. What gets to me is the dust bunnies on the ledges. [emoji1787] And don’t get me started about these things! That’s how a “can you do anything about this?” Turns into a brand new panel! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Mine looks absolutely nothing like this. Maybe the internal mechanism is the same but it doesn’t look like it from the outside. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

I don’t think anyone is piling on. I didn’t like reading something like this happening but the reality is stuff happens, even to new products. I watch Nikko Wings guy on YouTube and even in his brand new Cirrus SR-22 he was talking about taking it back for some warranty work. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

You guys are making me ill. I wasn’t going to buy a 5 until my LESS THAN 1 YEAR OLD 4 got a little older. I will need to see for myself how much faster it is. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

I don’t think it is leaking from the O ring. I have never seen this type of drain before. I can see an actual spring and it looks to be leaking internally and coming out the end of the drain, not around the base. I’m headed over to the airport soon and will snap a picture of the little bugger. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Mike this is like EVERY other incident/accident I have seen reported on MooneySpace. We are going to read everything from the quality question through “he drank too much espresso that morning” comments. I get it, you trained the guy. You’re sensitive to that. It’s a new Mooney, we’re all sensitive to that. And that facts aren’t in and we will see all the usual speculation that goes with it. To bury our heads in the tarmac and pretend it didn’t happen isn’t the answer either. Something happened. And I don’t get the big deal about talking about it. It’s a collapsed nose wheel - wasn’t the first time for a Mooney. We surely didn’t stop talking about the Boeing Max issue. When the facts come out, everything gets recalibrated. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Exercising my right under Part 43, I noticed during my oil change the quick drain on my engine looks like it might have begun seeping a little. Two questions: 1) For the IAs, am I allowed under Part 43 to replace the quick drain with another one? If I didn’t have a quick drain, I would be removing a plug. Is replacing the quick drain like installing the plug? 2) I have an IO-360 A1A, is this the correct replacement quick drain? https://www.mcfarlaneaviation.com/products/product/A5020/ And is it the same has the one on Aircraft Spruce? https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/eppages/safOilDrainValves.php?clickkey=6418 (And if it is, how do they get away with an almost 100% mark up?) Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro