MooneyBooks

1. Credentials

2. Approaching The Ownership Dream

3. What kind of airplane do I want/need?

4. Why A Mooney?

5. Making Aircraft Ownership Affordable

6. Mooney Annual Inspection Guide!

7. About Mooneys

8. More about the M20’s

9. Mooney Strength

10. Maintenance Tips

11. Airframe Concerns

12. Airframe Time

13. Do Mooney’s Float?

14. Mooney Landing Gear Downloading

15. More Do It Yourself Stuff

16. The “Twisted Wing” Mooney’s

17. Why Mooney’s Are The Safest In Their Class

18. The Proper Way To Land A Mooney

19. Starting the Mooney Engine

20. Should I Add Speed Brakes To My Mooney?

21. Should I Go Turbo?

22. Mooney Models

23. 12 Ways To Save Fuel

24. How Much Does It Cost To Own an Airplane? (A New Bonus Chapter to This Book)

25. Memoires of One Mooney Buyer (A New Bonus Chapter to This Book)

26. Emergency Gear (to keep on board)

27. And Finally..

28. Rear Book Cover

Do you remember having any previous lives? Probably not, and your after-life eventuality belongs to God, so this life is basically all you have, and it is up to you to make the most of it. Were you like that wondering little kid that hung around airports watching airplanes depart and arrive with your eyes more often than not upward watching airplanes come and go? Do you have a passion for flight so much so that you finally made the decision to get your own personal pilot’s license? Then the next step for you is to own your own airplane! Naw….really? Yes, REALLY! “But Richard; I’m not rich!” Well old buddy, join the club! Neither have I been what many consider “rich” and out of necessity I have always had to make do with what I had to work with whether it being a kid fixing up an old discarded bicycle, or when at driving age, some old $50.00 heap of ugly junk that needed fix up. That was the beginning for my lifetime career of achieving CHAMPAGNE RESULTS on a BEER BUDGET!

But you say; “zef, I can’t afford to own an airplane!”. Few people can afford to own everything, so it’s just a matter of priorities. The last thing I want for you is to end up in your later years (decades of deep reflection) and have you think to yourself that you should have……….. Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda owned an airplane but I chickened out. Or how ‘bout you older retired guyz and galz who have always wanted to own an airplane but the kids ‘n college, etc. came first…yadda yadda…. The bottom line is there is no time like the present to start enjoying life more as well as the satisfaction and most fabulous expression of freedom there is, and that is AIRPLANE OWNERSHIP! The world is a much smaller place when you can travel at 3-4 times the speed of your car; especially if traffic is figured into the quotient.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Richard Zephro, a pilot of 38 years has logged about 6000 hours. Of these; 5000+ hours are in Mooney Aircraft. Richard has a passion for flying and 20 years ago was able to turn that passion into a fulfilling career founding Coast to Coast Aircraft Sales (aka Mooneyland) in 1989. From that time Richard has been involved in hundreds of pre-purchase and annual inspections with many Mooney mechanics so as to learn everything there is to know about the Mooney.

Ratings include:

Private pilot single engine land

Single engine IFR

Multi engine

Multi engine IFR

Credits include:

Avid airplane enthusiast

Widely known as a Mooney expert being involved in hundreds of Mooney Sales and Inspections; owner of several Mooney aircraft personally, and has lived and loved Mooney's since flying his first one in 1974.

Aircraft Sales, Maintenance and Modifications, Aircraft Leather Interiors.

Creator and Author of a most popular Aviation Website: www.Mooneyland.com in which tens of thousands of words have been written on the subject of Mooney aircraft.