Introduction to AMU spending

That's typical of low-wing hangars. Airplane parts get in the way of
usefull floor space.

Jack Allison wrote:
[snip]
.... no room for picnic table ...
[snip]

Ahhhhh... Let the spending begin!! :-) When we first got 43H we
dropped 2 AMU's in it quickly too... Then we dropped 2 more... and so
on... and so on.... :-)

Now we're looking at our first annual at around 6 AMU's

Shhhhh... don't tell the wife!!! This airplane ownership stuff is
expensive!! :-) Welcome to the club Mr. Allison!!

Jon Kraus
PP-ASEL-IA
'79 Mooney 201

Jack Allison wrote:

The Arrow came out of the shop Friday at a cost just south of 2 AMUs.
Can you say "It's nice to have a 3-way partnership"? I sure did.

Nothing major but the minor stuff sure adds up quick:
- Installed Davtron chronometer (or first official upgrade as the old
analog clock was INOP)
- Swing the compass (didn't have a compass correction card)
- Oil change (would have done it ourselves last weekend but we needed a
socket extension). Also installed a quick drain.
- Install new door and baggage compartment seals. New door clevis pins
as well. No air leaks now!
- Service fuel selector since it was extremely stiff
- R&R landing light
- Found/fixed small hydraulic leak
- Re-key door and baggage compartment locks
- Check into potential JPI sensor issue with #1 cylinder (sporadic/high
EGT readings)

We could have saved a few bucks and done some of the work ourselves (and
will do so in the future) but opted to have the local shop take care of
everything at once.

It took a bit over a week as we needed to get a field approval from the
FSDO for the Davtron. Ah, welcome to FAA paperwork, eh?

Best of all, however, is the fact that we now have a hanger at our home
field (LHM). We'd been hangered at a different airport but it was just
under 2X the going rate at LHM (community "full service" style hanger).
Now, we're in a T-hanger at our final destination. Yea, I can now be a
hanger rat...in my own hanger :-)

I just finished logging my required 20 hours so I'm now legal to carry
passengers. It was an aviation filled weekend with two short cross
country flights and an instrument lesson. Man, this airplane
ownership thing rocks! :-)

I like the AMU thing. Makes the number seem so much smaller. 1, 2,
3...seems like nothing. Never mind the 1000 multiplier :-)


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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