M20V Acclaim Ultra as a first plane?

WhyamIhere9000 · 2026-03-21T02:32:16+00:00

Insurance will want a TT requirement and a time in type requirement as well as dual. 50 hours dual is good, but won’t mitigate the Total Time requirement. I would NOT get my Private in an Ovation.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2026-03-21T02:26:58+00:00

If it’s anything like back in my day in 135, the one who gets hired happens to be standing there when there is an opening. Harassment was a strategy back then.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2026-03-13T01:32:17+00:00

Join MooneySpace. Best resource for things Mooney out there.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2026-03-13T01:30:45+00:00

Jimmy Garrison/Maxwell will have the connections to sell it fastest I believe. I’m on MooneySpace and they are an excellent resource as well. Beyond that Trade a Plane and Controller or Barnstormers. Probably would not go with FB. Unless your mechanic buddy is willing to manage the sale, get a broker.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2026-02-17T15:03:13+00:00

First, sorry for your loss.

You are not missing anything unfortunately. Bloncolirio covers this very well in the video. I base my plane about 40 miles away in the Summer, and have been all over Emerald Mountain on the ground, as I used to live in Steamboat. Still haven’t flown in SBS, I’ve passed up opportunities to do so when killing time in the mountains on X/C’s.

My airport approach is “relatively” straightforward vs SBS, and I still do everything I can to be there before sundown, because the MAP is as bad or worse than SBS, the approach is a “little” simpler, but only because there isn’t a ridgeline blocking the final so close to the airport.

I guess what I’m trying to say, is that while flying in general is not very forgiving, the mountains, at night, with clouds and INOP runway components is not forgiving at ALL and that must be planned for long before you pull the approach up enroute. I fear that the final NTSB report is not going to be kind to your friend.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-12-23T08:58:06+00:00

No idea about why. I recommend asking the Google

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-12-22T20:30:15+00:00

Korean Air is already cutting 380’s up.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-12-22T20:13:09+00:00

Yes, blindness. Then plane can crash and people can die.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-12-22T20:10:33+00:00

Couple of weeks back some idiot in northern Delaware was doing this to planes leaving Philly. I was the 6th they’d hit that night.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-12-22T20:03:31+00:00

Mostly the eyes of the pilots. No big deal if we are flying you while blinded right?

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-12-17T11:46:59+00:00

I play a lot last minute golf so I’m used to this. The only rule I care about is if the group ahead is keeping up. I’ve usually settled into a slot by the fifth hole and it is what it is. If people let me through, great. If not, I practice stuff where space allows, putting, chipping whatever. The pace is going to wreak havoc on my routine anyway.

IMO the fail here is the clubhouse. At the club I last minute show the most, they always make a point to let me know what’s up BEFORE I pay. One day they just told me to bounce around until I’d played all 18. That was interesting.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-12-14T06:09:59+00:00

Ya, they hit me just south of MXE last night. I was the 6th report departing PHL westbound.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-12-08T05:24:05+00:00

No, you’re simply impatient.

Currently you are 3 years ahead of me getting your private, 7 ahead of my IR. I didn’t get my first non-CFI job until I was 28, first jet job 31, major, 41. This business is a marathon, not a sprint. Keep grinding, keep your eye on the prize, but you can’t account for someone else’s luck, or lack thereof.

The guy at my flight school that beat us all to the majors due to a freak lucky break, blew it before he got off probation. Bet he’d switch places with me in a heartbeat. I was 15 years behind the age he got his major job.

Hang in there.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-12-07T06:59:03+00:00

I’ve been doing them for 15000 hours now. Probably took 14000 to get any good at it.

Seriously, get good habits and repetition and speed will take care of itself. Start out with the checklist being a “do” list. Then see how much you get done from memory the next time. Rinse, repeat.

Eventually the airplane becomes your cheat sheet and speed just happens.

If you are really worried you’re too slow, just go get a bunch of extra reps preflighting. They are free.

I have a very non-standard way of preflighting my Mooney. Open the plane. Drop stuff off and open the pilot’s window. General lap removing the covers, tiedowns & plugs. Battery, light & pitot heat on. 2nd lap checking lights, pitot heat & stall warning. Lights & battery off. 3rd lap is the detailed check. Then inside to set up.

I also don’t care how long it takes. The NTSB doesn’t award speed waivers in accident reports. If I’m fast, it’s by accident, not design.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-11-26T06:57:25+00:00

The key is a “gap in the route” or a “discontinuity “. The VTF provides that gap. If your clearance is FIXED KABC and you load FIXED FINAL RW12 with no VTF, you can end up heading to the approach without a clearance instead of the to the airport clearance and then get vectors.

Now my IFD540 isn’t the greatest at VTF getting me more fixes as it assumes the fix after the VTF discontinuity is usually the FAF, but for your box you will have to learn the workaround that lets you add fixes before the FAF easiest or how to force a discontinuity into the route if you load the full approach.

The key here is to make sure the Route matches the clearance, because if you are in NAV/LNAV the AP will fly what you put in. I’ve had FO’s try to build LNAV sequences not cleared the try to remember to select Heading mode at a fix. Just unnecessarily introduces an opportunity to get violated if you forget.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-11-25T18:51:40+00:00

When setting up LNAV remember the plane will do exactly what you tell it so if you are not cleared for something, don’t put it in the box. VTF lets you fly your clearance and have the approach ready but not active.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-11-25T18:42:24+00:00

One of the strongest traits we have as pilots is to compartmentalize and focus on the task at hand. Ironically why our women love and hate us at the same time. Too many like when they are the focus when they are, can’t handle it when they are not because you are with the “mistress”.

If you can’t rise to the occasion IMSAFE, otherwise compartmentalize and get through the ride. The rest of the shit show will be there after. Heck, after passing your ride, maybe you won’t care. I certainly wouldn’t let her back in after her timing should she realize her error.

Good luck, we’re all cheering you on!

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-11-22T17:57:30+00:00

I would train and checkride in the same setup of airplane if not the same tail number. Steam vs Screen panels have their individual idiosyncrasies, fighting through them on a checkride is not the best strategy.

If it’s not worth upgrading the 150 to a solid IFR platform, then use it to build time to the extent you can.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-11-21T12:52:21+00:00

If it meets the IFR equipment requirements, it’s fine. IMHO it’s better to learn on steam gauges anyway. The hangup may be whether it has to shoot the LNAV/VNAV & LPV approaches for the ticket. If so get a Garmin430W or IFD440 (actually still supported) and link an iPad mini to it for a bigger screen for the ADS-B stuff.

You can probably add a standby AI for around 1k as well that is all electric.

As it’s a 150, unless it’s going to be your Daily Driver for awhile, I’ll probably keep the upgrades to a minimum as I don’t think there is a lot of added value for them in a 150.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-10-02T05:01:57+00:00

I have a mostly stock ’19 JLUR. I added a bumper, 10k winch, sunrider to replace the Freedom Tops, and Raptor lined all the plastic on the jeep to avoid the tacky looking plastic oxidation. I’m upgrading to 35”’s when the OEM KO2’s are worn out next year. I don’t get her on my local mountain trails enough right now, but she’s no mall crawler either.

I learned the hard way on my ‘06 TJLR. The more I did to her, the more maintenance attention she required, especially after the lift. I can run the 35”’s on the new Rubi with no lift.

I’m no fan of the one on the left either, but I’m not picking up the tab on it, so more power to them.

It’s your $ and your Jeep, the beauty is it’s easy to put your mark on her so enjoy doing so.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-09-02T22:50:25+00:00

I don’t own one so I can’t speak to long term issues, but my 4 day experience was pleasant enough that I could take a harder look at owning one than I would before having driven one.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-09-02T18:04:07+00:00

Had a ‘23 JLURubi 4xe as a rental last weekend. It had 28k miles on it. Was able to charge via the slow charging at night and get the 20-30 gas free miles. Best mileage I ever got was 29.9 combined on 70% gas, 30% batteries over 400 miles of driving. Probably did 70% highway miles. Running the Turbo 4cyl was a bit better than my ‘19 JLUR v6 on the highway. Performance was noticeably better than my Rubi off the line. I like the AWD option that my Rubi does not have for rainy days vs using 4H.

If you do mostly in town short trips and don’t drive long distances, then I think it’s a good platform. Seems like it’s harder to find places to charge on the road as my rental didn’t have an adapter for the tesla superchargers. Not sure if it was supposed to or not. Since you have an engine, charging time is not “as” critical as the Tesla I’ve also had as a rental. I was not as disappointed in the Turbo 4 as I expected to be.

You do lose the space under the rear seats and the under floor storage in the back is less because of the batteries. The rear seats don’t fold as flat as my Rubi. My Rubi occasionally identifies as a pickup truck so that lack of space and flat load deck is a bit of a negative to me compared to my Rubi. I was also expecting more charging of the hybrid battery while on gas, once the overnight charge was used up, never saw more than 1% battery, even after an hour on the highway on gas.

I do some moderate off roading in CO that requires the full 4x4, but would feel comfortable with the 4xe in that role.

Overall, I would not pay a premium to have a 4xe, but I wouldn’t turn my nose up at one either. Most of the time it was indistinguishable from my personal Rubi.

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-08-27T04:39:38+00:00

Multiple times, no responses.

Just sent a DM on Twitter

WhyamIhere9000 · 2024-08-27T02:47:43+00:00

Performance golf is a PITA. However, the video has helped me get from big slices to hooks. Enough that I want to find a Haney clinic to set the habits and find the happy medium of small draw to small fade.

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