aviatoreb

I had an extra pair of holes put in my seat rails of the pilot seat. The long bodies are the same in the seating area. They are longer behind the seats.

Can I still get a framable signed picture?

A bit more warning - and I would definitely want to come!!! I am really hoping some day to have a framable signature from the Dean of Mooneyspace.

Sat Phone?

Where did you go Anthony?

Someone at my University is studying a fish called the Mooneye that seems to be native to our local waters. Never heard of it! But I have done some fly fishing around here... https://announcements.clarkson.edu/2024/04/12/clarkson-university-researchers-ask-public-to-report-mooneye-fish-catches/

Maybe it comes with Oxygen?

I am 6'4'' 222 - I chose Mooney in part for the excellent leg room. By the way - I had a shop make an extra hole for me in the seat rails of the pilot seat so my seat goes back a little further.

I see you are in Arizona - I believe its the fluid is too thin at warmer temps. When I run it on the ground in the summer- I get low pressure flashing. So if I want to exercise the system in the summer I only do so in the air at a sufficiently high altitude that its quite cool. In the winter you can run it on the ground if its like near freezing. So in the summer Im running it at least every month just to keep it in good shape, and in the winter Im running it on the ground while taxiing to fly to pre prime the system in case I might run into ice while punching through a layer.

Thanks - I didnt know about the website.

I tried that email and got a bounce message.

I've always figured my airplane is really a dumb investment and its essentially a complete loss for all the money I put into it. I keep fixing it up and it looks shiny, beautiful inside and out, great paint, great upholstery and great panel. Cool prop. TKS, rocket. Its cool! And I always figured damned Im one dumb so of a &*^% for spending all that money on it if I think its an investment. But I like having nice things and its really really nice! When I need to overhaul my engine - soon - that will be another pile of money that I wont recoup when I spend it - I mean a lot of money. My airplane is in such tip top shape it probably already is at the max of what a rocket will go for even with a high hour engine. But I will spend the money to overhaul it anyway because its my long time keeper. And if I got in the mood to do a diesel if one were available - meh - I would do that too - but not because I think its an investment. PS - there's other money I actually invest - but my airplane is my mooney money hole.

As far as I am concerned - the big market for diesel and the big reason for diesel is one thing you just said - its already at the airports as JetA - and I mean on the world market in many parts of the world where there maybe jetA but no avgas. So not so much for the North America market. Or for me.

I have not made measurements - but my impression is that deploying speed brakes after touch down does just about zero. So why bother and complicated the landing roll out. Retracting flaps to put weight on the wheels does do a lot though.

No! We are still at $6.75/gal for like a year and a half now. :-(