As a student pilot, and Mooney fanboy, appreciate your banter and sharing your knowledge. Thanks.

It’s amazing to see how far you have come in such little time. Still remember your first flight as a licensed pilot in your Cessna 150. Congratulations on your commercial and the angel pilot thing sounds great! Blue skies and tail winds my friend.

Nice demo of the GFC 500. I’m having one installed as we speak, along with a G3X and 750Xi in my Cardinal. As a retired USAF pilot and current 777 Capt, I really like the way you manage the airplane and systems. Very professional. If I may offer a suggestion - consider removing some of the items from the airplane key. The additional weight and vibration can cause premature wear on the ignition switch which can lead to bad things (i.e. a hot prop with the key removed). And congrats on your commercial!

79811 is a beautiful Mooney. I spent alot of years in 6695R with my dad. Great times!

Your missed approach/GA issue is a settings issue. I flew with a guy who has a Baron with similar issues. His GA setting was approximately 10° where it should be closer to 7°. Not sure what angle in a Mooney gives you Vy, but that’s what you need. An avionics shop can set it for you. Whether or not the autopilot stays engage when hitting the GA button might be a setting too? I fly a G1000 that disconnects AP and a G1000nxi that stays engaged. Great to do all this VFR like you’re doing. No surprises when IMC.

I'm a 65C owner with a new panel. Two 275's a garmin 375, and the garmin 500. Love the 500, it truly has changed the flying experience.

Great to see another fantastic video from you! Great panel, most important to me is the fact that your plane is so much safer with than without. See you in the next one! 👍

Interesting stuff as always! Hope your channel grows as you explain things I never hear elsewhere.

My partners & I have a GFC500 in our Cherokee 235 and I *LOVE* it. Prior to this I didn't have an airplane with an AP. So I did all of my instrument training hand flown. GFC500 makes instrument flying so much easier. I've now added working autopilot to my list of personal requirements for single pilot IFR. What an massive increase in safety. Unfortunately we don't have VNAV in our GNX 375 GPS. That looks like a really nice feature. Nevertheless still love the AP. As far as missed approach, I know garmin says to hit the TOGA button first, but I prefer to go full power first, then quickly hit TOGA. Full power suspends my descent and then TOGA initiates the climb. But since I'm full power it isn't as crazy steep. After I'm established in a climb, I switch to NAV & IAS to take me to my missed altitude. Maybe give that a try on a practice approach?

Great video Tommy, I like the discipline and the way you are always talking to yourself verifying where you are and what you need to next. 👍

Living the dream! Love the content man. Thanks for sharing! About 15hrs away from my PP cert. hoping to get a Mooney soon after. 🙂🤙🏼

Love the dual G5, GFC 500, and GTN 750 setup. Paired with ForeFlight and you've got everything you could want for flying XC. I am doing G3X with GTN 750 and GFC 500 so I was glad to see your tutorial here, looks super simple. Congrats on the commercial certificate!

Nice airplane. I had dual G5s and the GFC500 installed about 2 years ago in my Cherokee and love it ! I’m based out of KCEU , so not far !

I may be wrong, but you should still talk to ATC to do the practice approach to make sure no one else is coming into it. (Regardless if it's an uncontrolled field) But, god vid. I'm working on commercial right now, and we have a plane coming back this week with this AP being installed. Should be fun to fly with. (Have a bunch of xcountrys to do)

congrats on another successful checkride!

That AP is awesome, that’s next on my upgrade list for my F. Gonna have a very similar setup. Congrats on the commercial!

Need to try Village Deli restaurant across in the shopping center easy walk from the FBO around the property good food and ppl.

That is awesome Tommy!

You have a lot of good stuff, Subscribed.

I do the same thing for audio. I’ve tried so many adapters, recorders, etc. with continuous issues. The mic in the earcup plugged into the GoPro works pretty well, especially if you remember to put in in there! Congrats on the new rating.

Really well done!

thank you for the awesome info and video!! Well explained, I believe CFI is in your future at some point.

Great video and instruction on using the Garmin GFC 500. I think you would make an excellent CFI!

I do the same thing for my audio. It’s a struggle to get synced audio thru the intercom, it shouldn’t be so difficult. Congrats on the new rating! Garmin autopilot’s are awesome, congrats on that too!

Just subscribed and new to the channel. Nicely presented Tom. I fully agree with you about the cost and benefits of the GFC 500. $19K installed with new servos and flawless integration with a capable GPS: that's a good investment on many levels. Cheers and congratulations on passing the commercial certificate.

Congrats on passing your Commercial!! 👍

My mates Piper lll has the GFC 500 coupled with c3x display. Go around is set at about 7.5° pitch up. Take it back to the radio shop and get them to correct it. It will be a setting in the software.

Not a bad price for the autopilot! I have a GFC-500 in my mooney as well and I love it.

Congrats on the commercial! May have missed it earlier - have you done a video talking about how you found your Mooney (or your 150). I'm starting to get the itch to own and would love to see the process you went through to get yours.

Thanks for sharing! Looks like a beautiful trip. Just curious, how much would you say that Mooney would go for in its current state with upgrades? Might be looking for a similar plane next year with a friend.

Getting your add on multi to your commercial is easy when you’re ready. I’d recommend a package deal like several places offer. For $3-4k you get it done in two days, about 6-8 hours of multi time training and the checkride. You’d make a good CFI, even if part time. Good luck.

Great video, I love my GFC500, 2 G5,s and GPS175, unfortunately the GPS175 has limitation. Not related to the GFC500. I have a question regarding the shoulder belts what brand are they? I have a Cherokee 180 and I like the idea of shoulder belts instead of over the head. Thanks

I had a Mooney E without autopilot and it sucks when doing long distance trips. Especially when going over farms for you are consistently retrimming for up and down drafts. I just bought a 201 and that's one of the first things I am going to install.

Great tutorial on the new AP. KAPF

Yeah id say you don't need the YD, considering there's interconnect in the rudder with the ailerons. Very well equipped Mooney and anything else in the panel added would be considered overkill(some guys with 2x750s and a gps xpndr, just crazy). For full jet level capable a/p that is a pretty fair price even more so in the recent economy

I like your vídeos, im from Brazil im pilot piper Arrow p28T. I bought one Garmin 660, but now i need one gdl52 but is spensive

Ps… with the audio issues you mentioned, were they happening when the camera was running off battery, or only when plugged into plane power? If the issue is only happening when plugged into plane power, it may be a ground loop issue. Should be able to resolve it with some ferrite cores.

Sensacional.

Where did you get you GFC installed? Also, the GFC 500 is a very nice autopilot but it is in no way equivalent to the autopilot(s) on transport category aircraft.

So, when you were talking about flying to Florida, you mentioned about being on AP. Don’t you still need to use your rudders for coordinating flight? You mentioned you put your seat back, etc. How do you still maintain coordination with 2-axle AP?

201 Driver here wondering your thoughts on what you feel you might be missing G3X v the G5’s? Working towards the panel upgrade and appreciate any insight. Thx!

Congrats on the install and commercial pilots license. Now, where exactly is the “0” on runway 6 in Summerville?

Cya!

It looks like the bracket holding your compass card to the center frame on the windscreen is coming undone. Sorry, just makes me mental to look at it! Hope its just the angle or something.

I will be installing the GFC into my Debonair. Where did you have it done? I will get on their schedule!

Garmin is a money maker.

What is the brand and name of your battery tow assist?

What mic are you using under headset ear cup, please?

Congrats! But now with the fancy autopilot -your a button pusher!

Hey can you tell me where you got your autopilot installed?

I need your help brother, just failed my commercial checkride because of the power off 180 in my 74 M20E. Can you walk me thru what works for you for power off 180 ?

Can you share name of shop that did your auto pilot install?

I have the G5's, 750, and GMC500 in a Cherokee Six. On pushing the TOGA button I get a fairly gentle pitch up to about 7 degrees. Consider getting the pitch up adjusted if possible. The TOGA is very useful in keeping wings level and climb pitch untill time to push the NAV and Indicated airspeed buttonds for the missed appr.