Hope it's a good one. I don't know about the wx down there but up here it's not looking so good for flying. I hope you can get out some and fly that Mooney today. Cool having your birthday the same day as Orville's
Well thanks for the good wishes. They're appreciated. However the Mooney is down. Made the decision to put on a Powerflow exhaust (birthday present? ), for which they got an STC earlier this year. Got the old system off Saturday, and the idea was to put on the new one today. We (A&P and I) got the system on with minimum problems. But the exhaust pipe ends up right where the right side cowl flap actuator goes . We got to this point about 6:30 tonight and of course nobody's there at that hour and probably not tomorrow either.
I have (had) some serious business flying planned for next week, so this is a serious problem. I have no doubt they'll take care of this, but when? I'll give you all a report when I know more.