donkaye, MCFI Posted 2 hours ago Report Posted 2 hours ago 3 hours ago, UteM20F said: Marc, your animosity towards "Mr. Braly" seems unbounded. All of us on this forum that own Mooneys know of the problems with the Mooney wet wing, and its propensity to leak fuel. And you know as well as the rest of us that the leakage over the years has not been from G100UL, but has in fact been from 100LL. You can look at every one of the threads where someone asks about what to look for in a Mooney prebuy, and they all mention to check when the last time the tank was sealed (and by who) or if there are bladders. Do you think every such thread on Beechtalk, "CessnaTalk", and "PiperTalk" give the same advise? I doubt you would have flamed any of the rest of us if we blamed the Mooney factory/design for the Mooney wet wing issue, even if we normally praised our Mooneys publicly as the truly remarkable airplanes that they are. Do you admit, as George suggests, that YOU would be blaming GAMI in the Australian fatal Mooney crash if had recently used G100UL? I have no doubt that in your book, that accident, being a fatal accident, would be front and center on your "evidence" of GAMI's evils. Ute I would love to happily use G100UL. After all, I spent the money on the STC for that purpose. For me the issue is not the leaking, but that even if extreme care is exercised, as I tried to do, I still got staining of the top surface of the wing that I could not remove. At Reid Hillview the plane is fueled by the person who runs the truck, and although he seemed careful, at some point fuel ended up on the bottom of the "protective" cover and it stained the wing with the cover pattern. I shouldn't have to worry about staining every time I get fuel. In my opinion, at present, the fueling process staining uncertainty is not worth the risk of harming my paint. For me it's just much harder to deal with than just filling up with 100LL.
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