Rpm needs an instructor

[jetdriven]

Rpm needs an instructor. 
Being a Mooney in Airplane repair shop we get a lot of people who buy the first airplane which happens to be a Mooney. That’s not a bad idea, but if you have 150 hours and you came from a puppy mill flight school it can be a challenge. It’s totally doable, this is reasonable, but I’m having an issue finding an instructor who can take somebody from the 172SP flight school at Leesburg to Mooney retractable gear don’t come in too fast, don’t float, don’t prop strike, don’t do bad things in the airplane kind of level. 

I now have two people who need to find somebody who can be patient with them and work them from the 150 hour private pilot 172 level to Mooney level. This is going to take a while I get that, and they know that too. But we need to find progress we got to move it forward. It seems a lot of the establishment instructors are very good at taking commercial pilots who had a piper arrow or some other kind of medium performance airplane a transition into this kind of plane, but there seems to be a gap to go from 172SP to Mooney. I could do it myself but I have 9 airplanes on the ground right now I have four annuals scheduled for next month out of a single End row T hanger and frankly, I’m kind of slammed. More than slammed I have more work than that as well.  Plus the airline flying schedule as well. I could probably force myself to get into it, but nobody’s going to want to pay 95 bucks an hour for instruction. So I’m trying to find somebody who can get my two people up and out the door . They are good, smart, professional folks, they just need somebody who knows Mooney’s to get them from 172 puppy mill to Mooney pilot. So please PM me or email me at byron At flyRpm.com let’s get these guys out the door. Thanks for taking the time to read my noncapitalized rant. Punctuation is overrated, but safety is never optional and service isn’t either. 
thanks 

Byron. 

[201er]

Can’t they just take an ATP crash course or something?

[tony]

4 hours ago, 201er said:

Can’t they just take an ATP crash course or something?

its just gumps, gumps, gumps  and speed control.....

[Hank]

6 minutes ago, tony said:

its just gumps, gumps, gumps  and speed control.....

It would be nice to include some operational tidbits, too. Who leans rental Cessnas?

[mike_elliott]

Byron, the mooney flyer has a listing of Mooney CFI's in it, and Mooney Pros, inc will send an instructor to your clients to transition them. Have your clients reach out to me and we can get them set up. 

mike at mooneypros.com

 

[StevenL757]

29 minutes ago, mike_elliott said:

Byron, the mooney flyer has a listing of Mooney CFI's in it, and Mooney Pros, inc will send an instructor to your clients to transition them. Have your clients reach out to me and we can get them set up. 

mike at mooneypros.com

Mike, the first person I thought of was Will Wobbe...who transitioned my guy who bought N2145X (a fairly new Private Pilot, and now IFR-rated in that airplane, thanks to Will)

Any thoughts as to whether he'd be available - from a timing or geographical perspective?

[Mooney Dog]

I wish you luck. I just helped someone local transition from a cherokee 140 to a m20c. It was a challenge but we did it. 

Edited April 19, 2022 by Mooney Dog

[Rick Junkin]

11 hours ago, jetdriven said:

but nobody’s going to want to pay 95 bucks an hour for instruction.

For reference the CFI rates I've been seeing advertised are $100-$150/hour. I may be looking in the wrong places.

Cheers,
Rick

[Fly Boomer]

2 hours ago, mike_elliott said:

mike at mooneypros.com

Email but no web?

[mike_elliott]

2 hours ago, StevenL757 said:

Mike, the first person I thought of was Will Wobbe...who transitioned my guy who bought N2145X (a fairly new Private Pilot, and now IFR-rated in that airplane, thanks to Will)

Any thoughts as to whether he'd be available - from a timing or geographical perspective?

Steve I dont know about Will's availability, as he isnt one of our instructors, but he is a quality Mooney CFI for sure. He stepped in for transitioning an airline pilot once when, because of the mandatory NY quarantine 2 week measures were in place, we could not really be of good service and did a terrific job as he always does.

@Fly Boomer one of these days when advertising is needed to sustain our services, we will stand a web page up

[Fly Boomer]

15 minutes ago, mike_elliott said:

one of these days when advertising is needed to sustain our services, we will stand a web page up

No worries.  It's just a reflex for me to look for a web page to learn more about an organization.

[StevenL757]

7 hours ago, Fly Boomer said:

No worries.  It's just a reflex for me to look for a web page to learn more about an organization.

Ditto

And thanks @mike_elliott

[carusoam]

Will W. @Will W

Has a couple of nice pireps that can get you close to finding contact info…

https://mooneyspace.com/search/?q=Pirep Will Wobbe&quick=1&updated_after=any&sortby=relevancy&search_and_or=and

The nice thing about transition training… the hours are pretty limited compared to other things like ratings…. 
 

The expense of buying a plane comes with PPI, transition training, relocating, and that first year expensive insurance…

If only…. There was a way to get hours in a Mooney before having to buy the insurance….

Hope this is helpful…

Best regards,

-a-

[hypertech]

Another vote for Will W.  He's the man around DC, but I think he's a little distracted this week and I don't know how full his calendar is.

Paging @Will W

[hubcap]

+1 for Will Wobbe 

Will was one of the instructors at the MAPA PPP event in Wichita last year. Nothing but good things to say.

[Will W]

Hey folks. I'm on my honeymoon till May 1. We're flying across the west coast on an adventure starting in Sedona Arizona tonight. I'd be happy to help after that.

[hubcap]

1 hour ago, Will W said:

Hey folks. I'm on my honeymoon till May 1. We're flying across the west coast on an adventure starting in Sedona Arizona tonight. I'd be happy to help after that.

Congrats Will !!!!

[carusoam]

3 hours ago, Will W said:

Hey folks. I'm on my honeymoon till May 1.

Post pics or it didn’t happen!

Congrats and good luck!

Best regards,

-a-

[Pete M]

Call Adam over at ocala aviation. They have 2 E models he's been teaching in for years. I'd do it but I'm off to arizona for 4 months.

Pete

[J Bird]

15 hours ago, Pete M said:

Call Adam over at ocala aviation. They have 2 E models he's been teaching in for years. I'd do it but I'm off to arizona for 4 months.

Pete

I did my complete instrument training and checkride in N79350 out of Ocala back in 2012.

[carusoam]

15 hours ago, Pete M said:

Call Adam over at ocala aviation. They have 2 E models he's been teaching in for years. I'd do it but I'm off to arizona for 4 months.

Pete

Pete,

Have you left NJ already?

-a-

[Pete M]

15 hours ago, carusoam said:

Pete,

Have you left NJ already?

-a-

Yes, left about 5 weeks ago. I have a 7 and 10 year old down here in Gainesville. They made it very clear that they would no longer tolerate daddy working in nj:) i am permitted to attend airline training only in as much as I return every two weeks to take them out for happy meals and participate in the daily required online remote gaming experience of their choice. They negotiated quite a contract:)