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It's an experiment if it will fly or not

Must be relying on those emags or something or why on earth wouldn't he just go-around?

This has been the headline picture for a bunch of these reports lately. Clearly a helicopter in the first two and the third you can clearly see the American Airlines logo on the tail!!! Do you trust anyone to be shooting anything down if these are the targets!? I brightened the picture and it’s even more clear how it has skids, tail boom, and rotors. And you can see the lights in passenger windows in the airliner. I am disgusted how the news is painting a target on innocent aviation.

I wouldn’t be caught flying one of these ever, but especially not over NJ right now! Even the professionals wouldn’t hesitate to take it down

+1 for Parker. He doesn't only have the best rates but also outstanding support.

I'm actually avoiding flying my airplane over NJ at night for the foreseeable future after all this talk about shooting things down and countless pictures/videos of manned civilian aircraft being claimed to be "drones". There may by sightings that pose genuine concern, but there is far more hysteria mixed in with that as well. This is so clearly a regular helicopter that it is shameful to be used for a front page headline about drones. Or in this video 2:28-2:38 it is so blatantly obvious it's an airliner. You can see the nav lights, strobes, and even tail logo light. I tried posting a screenshot but then it looks "like a ufo or drone" but in motion it looks just like an airliner.

Anyone care to repeat the experiment on a Mooney?

Not to mention all the POH performance data is based on takeoff flaps for takeoff and full flaps for landing.

Your instructor hasn't flown approaches in actual to a short field in a Mooney... assuming you meant takeoff flaps. Landing flaps is full flaps. I use the flaps and frankly all other systems the same whether I'm in IMC or VMC. Plane flies the same whether you can see out the window or not. So, full flaps on short final around the same place I'd go full flaps in visual. This helps keep things more consistent with how I'm used to them being when visual.

How does a Mooney climb with full flaps? Have you ever accidentally or deliberately tried to climb with full flaps? The most common scenario is forgetting to retract the flaps on a go around. How did it climb? Was the gear down too?

“I am asking $135,000 at this time Make Me an offer or Trade I can’t refuse” Send Tony @carusoam from Jersey down there, I’m sure he knows a lot about offers you can’t refuse

Sounds like a Class C runway incursion to me https://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/resources/runway_incursions

Oh so you’ve seen mine! I’m glad you agree

I counter-offered to sell my Mooneyspace handle… Should have taken my offer before painting my handle on your plane…

Avgas positive? Some way to have an additive to prevent this? Couldn’t sump it out on the ground beforehand?

Wait till you find out how much those tops (dreidel if you're jewish) cost, you won't be spinning them and playing games any more!

Any side by side pics from outside? Curious how much taller it sits and how much longer?

Triflow

How many PPM reading is: ”no big deal, they all leak some” ”let’s get a mechanic to look at this some time” “continue to destination but this needs to be fixed” ”declare an emergency and land”

Mine is random. Right wing does the normal single synchronized strobe and the left does triples. But it’s not out of a carefully considered choice relying on the most advanced artificial technology, it’s out of being cheap and replacing only the one that was broken!

Not if you pass out... When's the last time you've had your CO detector calibrated? I wouldn't get overly confident about the reading and chart to decide how much time I have. Get on the ground ASAP. But it's true, the airplane isn't on fire and the engine isn't quit so get down safely without wasting time.

You sure that wouldn’t act like a Venturi and suck more CO into the cabin? I’ve never opened in flight so I’m not sure if it blows in or out?

Any Mooney specific suggestions to share such as how to set the cowl flaps, power, etc in the event of a sudden high Carbon Monoxide reading?

Right way to handle Carbon Monoxide: Wrong way (no offense, Dan’s the man!) or Having good detection, keeping head straight, and landing ASAP. That’s the way to go. Glad Dan is ok and has convinced the majority of us to get detectors. For those who haven’t, see above and think about how you will handle it.

@Parker_Woodruff should be able to answer off the top of his head