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Post subject: Re: Rumor That All Mooney Employees Furloughed For A Week Posted: 12 Nov 2019, 09:02 |
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Username Protected wrote: I really enjoy my Farmall A with a belly mower. And it still works as well as it ever has. But - it's not what buyers of brand new compact tractors are looking for. Pardon the thread shift, but... The good ole days of changing “ hammer knife “ blades
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Post subject: Re: Rumor That All Mooney Employees Furloughed For A Week Posted: 12 Nov 2019, 15:19 |
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Joined: 06/10/16 Posts: 360 Post Likes: +135 Location: KCVO
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Can I hope that Univair buys the type certificate so I can go on their website and buy almost any part for a reasonable price?
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Post subject: Re: Rumor That All Mooney Employees Furloughed For A Week Posted: 12 Nov 2019, 16:13 |
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Username Protected wrote: Saw on FB that the Kerrville newspaper published the furlough story today, but the article is behind a paywall. All employees affected. Here’s a PDF of the article: Attachment: Mooney.pdf
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Post subject: Re: Rumor That All Mooney Employees Furloughed For A Week Posted: 12 Nov 2019, 16:40 |
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Username Protected wrote: Here’s a PDF of the article: Attachment: Mooney.pdf ...not just shuttered and furloughed for a week but Happy Thanksgiving folks - you're laid off! No WARN notification, no heads up except maybe for the overseas investors. ...nothin'!
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Post subject: Re: Rumor That All Mooney Employees Furloughed For A Week Posted: 12 Nov 2019, 17:10 |
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Joined: 08/05/16 Posts: 3109 Post Likes: +2225 Company: Tack Mobile Location: KBJC
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They made some good improvements with the ultra, but the payload with either air con or TKS and full fuel makes it basically a one person airplane. I visited their booth at Oshkosh and there never seemed to be more than a couple people milling around and none seemed too excited at the plane. Walking over to Cirrus was a different planet.
I don't know how someone can look at the Ultra and the SR22 and then buy the Ultra. If you really only fly with yourself and one other person, the SR22 is still more comfortable. If you fly by yourself, maybe. But then when you go to sell it you're selling to a tiny market. I don't think the Ultras are going to sell for anything close to a similarly aged SR22.
I think it is more fun to fly and it is faster than an SR22, so it's too bad. If they could figure out a way to eek a little more elbow room, more payload, and a chute for the spouses I think it would have been a viable contender. I'd say the same thing about the TTx, with a chute and 3 more inches of length I think they'd have sold. Maybe not possible to do without extensive recertification in either case.
I still don't understand why Mooney and Cessna (or Cirrus) didn't add the iE2 as part of their overhauls when they made the Ultra/TTx/G6 changes.
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Post subject: Re: Rumor That All Mooney Employees Furloughed For A Week Posted: 12 Nov 2019, 17:20 |
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Joined: 01/28/13 Posts: 6053 Post Likes: +4019 Location: Indiana
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A Mooney is a pilots airplane. Cirrus has almost everything going for it as a single piston but fun to hand fly it is not. Full fuel in a Mooney long body is bladder and person busting. Most will never need more than 64 gallons on board for 3 hours flying and 1 in reserve. Creates another 240lbs useful or so. I flew 950nm and burned 62 gallons at 170’ once in 5.5 hours. It’s all according to your desire, ability, needs and mission. Seat and leg room in cruise for this 6’2” pilot was better than the TBM, and it is excellent. Guess in airplanes, cars, women and men it all depends on you.....
_________________ Chuck KEVV
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Post subject: Re: Rumor That All Mooney Employees Furloughed For A Week Posted: 12 Nov 2019, 17:51 |
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Username Protected wrote: Saw on FB that the Kerrville newspaper published the furlough story today, but the article is behind a paywall. All employees affected. Here’s a PDF of the article: Attachment: Mooney.pdf
11 owners, and 3 bankruptcies
I wonder if that is a record?
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Post subject: Re: Rumor That All Mooney Employees Furloughed For A Week Posted: 12 Nov 2019, 23:47 |
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Joined: 02/13/11 Posts: 309 Post Likes: +92 Location: Austn, TX (KEDC)
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Username Protected wrote: I'd say the same thing about the TTx, with a chute and 3 more inches of length I think they'd have sold. No product improvement would've saved TTx. Cessna was a company that had trouble selling expensive jets. TTx had no chance in their organization: the margin was too small. I didn't have personal exposure to Cessna specifically, but whenever this happened in other companies, the sales force would basically sabotage low-margin, low-incentive products. And, the deadweight employees would get assigned to it. Once Jack left, it was the end for all of their little prop planes.
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Post subject: Re: Rumor That All Mooney Employees Furloughed For A Week Posted: 13 Nov 2019, 02:47 |
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Joined: 12/07/17 Posts: 7037 Post Likes: +5807 Company: Malco Power Design Location: KLVJ
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Username Protected wrote: Wow, 319 employees producing 7 planes a year... This is the problem. That means each plane has to carry 40+ salaries. A jet couldn’t do that. How many people would it take to produce 7 RVs a year if it was their full time job? Maybe 10. That’s really poor management there.
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