Mooney Flyer Mechanics List

[mooneyflyer]

The Mooney Flyer currently has the most extensive Mooney CFI list available.

we are considering adding another list for Mooney-savvy mechanics.  Please send Name, Phone, Email, City/Airport to TheMooneyFlyer@gmail.com and we will compose a list.

thanks, Phil

[Bob_Belville]

Phil, sounds like a very useful project. @AGL Aviation should take note.

[carusoam]

Does Our NJ MSC qualify?

Best regards,

-a-

[mooneyflyer]

7 hours ago, carusoam said:

Does Our NJ MSC qualify?

Best regards,

-a-

Yes... but we already have a complete listing of all MSCs.... but it's all good

[Bob_Belville]

I would think that the list would include all the MSCs but hopefully just as many shops who are not MSC but have Mooney experience and expertise. There are many places in North America where the nearest MSC is hundreds of miles away.

Of course owners will need to do due diligence but having contact info can only be a good thing. 

[HRM]

You might want to have a Mooney owner endorsement requirement. Someone who has had an annual (or many) with them, or major work in the case of avionics and engine.

[HRM]

Oh, I'll endorse AGL, their oil screen videos were great 

 

Frankly, I would love to see a feature length film of an E getting an annual...plane porn video.

[AGL Aviation]

Oh, I'll endorse AGL, their oil screen videos were great 

 

Frankly, I would love to see a feature length film of an E getting an annual...plane porn video.

Hysterical!

 

I'll have to be on the lookout for a good videographer...

 

PPV only.

 

 

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[HRM]

10 hours ago, AGL Aviation said:

Hysterical!

 

I'll have to be on the lookout for a good videographer...

 

PPV only.

I am actually quite serious about this, would be a godsend to owner-assisted annuals, and I would pay. Problem is, a tiny, tiny market. 

Of course, an annual is variegated in the sense that the engine part is different from the airframe part. An aircraft with an IO-360 pretty much gets the same annual in an E as an F. You could film various segments of an annual (like you did the oil screen) and then compile them in a DVD and sell the collection.

After nine years of annuals on my E and countless stories, every single annual is different in terms of sequence, what gets looked at, what gets removed and replaced. The tricky part is a logical sequencing of the process, the tricks of how things are accessed or removed, the definitive list of consumables needed and how it is recorded.

The owner assisted is like the old shop sign:

Thank god for Mooneyspace.

[AGL Aviation]

I am actually quite serious about this, would be a godsend to owner-assisted annuals, and I would pay. Problem is, a tiny, tiny market. 
Of course, an annual is variegated in the sense that the engine part is different from the airframe part. An aircraft with an IO-360 pretty much gets the same annual in an E as an F. You could film various segments of an annual (like you did the oil screen) and then compile them in a DVD and sell the collection.
After nine years of annuals on my E and countless stories, every single annual is different in terms of sequence, what gets looked at, what gets removed and replaced. The tricky part is a logical sequencing of the process, the tricks of how things are accessed or removed, the definitive list of consumables needed and how it is recorded.
The owner assisted is like the old shop sign:

Thank god for Mooneyspace.

I don't disagree. I thought how you presented it was humorous. The suction screen video was such a huge success, I do plan on posting a few more snippets of several things concerning an annual that I think people would be interested to see. You guys are more than welcome to sound off on those specific things and I'll do what I can. I do have a concern with offering a full-length DVD: we all know there will be SOMEONE who will take it upon themselves to use the video and try to perform the inspection/service themselves. While I believe these people are few and far between, I would hate to be responsible for injury or loss of life over a video meant only for information/reference. While a good idea, a full length video will take some thinking.


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[Bob_Belville]

1 minute ago, AGL Aviation said:

I don't disagree. I thought how you presented it was humorous. The suction screen video was such a huge success, I do plan on posting a few more snippets of several things concerning an annual that I think people would be interested to see. You guys are more than welcome to sound off on those specific things and I'll do what I can. I do have a concern with offering a full-length DVD: we all know there will be SOMEONE who will take it upon themselves to use the video and try to perform the inspection/service themselves. While I believe these people are few and far between, I would hate to be responsible for injury or loss of life over a video meant only for information/reference. While a good idea, a full length video will take some thinking.


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Our great friend, as Mooney owners, Don Maxwell has a number of helpful videos and documents on his website dealing with various operating and maintenance topics specific to Mooneys. AGL might want to have such a section on their website and link to that site when communicating here. I find it easier to go to a website as compared to searching the MS archives for something I know I've seen. 

[AGL Aviation]

Our great friend, as Mooney owners, Don Maxwell has a number of helpful videos and documents on his website dealing with various operating and maintenance topics specific to Mooneys. AGL might want to have such a section on their website and link to that site when communicating here. I find it easier to go to a website as compared to searching the MS archives for something I know I've seen. 

Great idea! I'll work on that next week.


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[HRM]

1 minute ago, AGL Aviation said:

I would hate to be responsible for injury or loss of life over a video meant only for information/reference.

I was going to mention that, we are in a litigious society!

That said, I cannot tell you how much blood I have let onto and because of my Mooney! ...and it isn't all inexperience. I lost an oil cooler at KFDK and was at the mercy of Signature. They called a guy in who was older than I am and my guess is that he gets called when a 'vintage' bird needs service. After he replaced the cooler, which was a Cessna part if memory serves, I noticed that The Mistress had exacted a toll with all the fresh cuts he had on his hands.

[AGL Aviation]

I was going to mention that, we are in a litigious society!
That said, I cannot tell you how much blood I have let onto and because of my Mooney! ...and it isn't all inexperience. I lost an oil cooler at KFDK and was at the mercy of Signature. They called a guy in who was older than I am and my guess is that he gets called when a 'vintage' bird needs service. After he replaced the cooler, which was a Cessna part if memory serves, I noticed that The Mistress had exacted a toll with all the fresh cuts he had on his hands.

'Ritual blood letting' comes with the territory of maintenance


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[Bob_Belville]

Just now, AGL Aviation said:

'Ritual blood letting' comes with the territory of maintenance


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It's a good thing that oil, grease, and grime are sterile. 

[HRM]

5 hours ago, Bob_Belville said:

It's a good thing that oil, grease, and grime are sterile. 

Only if the wound is up under the fingernail and caused by a sterile cotter pin...

.   ...I record all my wounds.

[Hank]

Ooowwwwwwwww!!!!! Harley, I did not need to see that!!! Now my finger hurts . . . .