Dylan Smith wrote:

My main beef with the Mooney (I've not got that many hours in them, and
I've been in the older manual gear ones as well as a 1994 or thereabouts
newer model) is that the forward visibility was terrible. The panel
seems very high, and the windscreen very small. The older one felt
almost 'tank slit' like.

Did you have the seat pulled forward so you could press the rudder pedals to
full deflection? I find pulling the seat forward gives you a great angle of
vision because you're so close to the windscreen. OTOH, some people find it
uncomfortable -because- they're so close to the windscreen. Claustrophobia, you
know.

if I had that kind of money I'd be buying a Bonanza instead.

If I had Bonanza money, I'd fly a Bonanza, too. Mooney and Bonanza are not the
same kind of money.

Dave