N222VS Posted January 13, 2014 Author Report Posted January 13, 2014 I always get a knot in my stomach when I see something like this , I guess there are the ones that have & the ones that are going to!! I'd say that this will be a bargain for someone to buy!!! Quote
RocketAviator Posted January 13, 2014 Report Posted January 13, 2014 Does the tail say Emery Riddle? I have empathy! Quote
N222VS Posted January 13, 2014 Author Report Posted January 13, 2014 From what I've been told , which is second hand. On climb out pilot smelled smoke, shut engine down & put it down @ the end of the runway then bounced hard & slid through the fence at the end of the runway through the mud. All with the gear up. Quote
TWinter Posted January 13, 2014 Report Posted January 13, 2014 I had the wrong school in mind..My bad. Quote
aviatoreb Posted January 13, 2014 Report Posted January 13, 2014 That's aN embry riddle tail number and paint job. She will fly proudly again. Hang in there sir. Quote
orionflt Posted January 13, 2014 Report Posted January 13, 2014 Not owned by emery riddle any more. Quote
N222VS Posted January 13, 2014 Author Report Posted January 13, 2014 It's been based @ Dayton , TN 2A0 for about 4years. I guess Embry Riddle didn't remove their name when it was sold. I'd say she will be parted out, I've heard the airframe is 11,000 hrs. I was out shooting approaches & snapped the pics before I left the airport. I figured someone on here might pick it up from the insurance for a deal. Probably a good parts donor! 1 Quote
kerry Posted January 13, 2014 Report Posted January 13, 2014 Only 11,000 hrs. It's airframe is close to just being broken in. Literally. 1 Quote
Wakeup Posted January 13, 2014 Report Posted January 13, 2014 Someone said its based out of Dayton,Tn. Is this where it happened? Quote
DS1980 Posted January 13, 2014 Report Posted January 13, 2014 Didn't the Mooney engineers say the airframe, though not life limited, was good for something like 41,000 hours? Quote
aviatoreb Posted January 13, 2014 Report Posted January 13, 2014 I am not sure if it was this plane or one of the sister ER Mooney 201's I saw om controller when I was shopping for Mooneys about 5 years ago. Â It especially caught my eye since at the time I owned N805ER, a former Embry-Riddle Diamond DA40. Â One cool thing about flying around with an ER tail number is that your airplane is an alumnae of a well known aviation school - wherever I went people would come up and say they went to ER. Â I even - more than once - had ATC tell me that they went to ER and one even told me that she had flown my airplane. Quote
KSMooniac Posted January 13, 2014 Report Posted January 13, 2014 Off topic, but I think this is a funny and somewhat accurate representation of the ER experience. :-P Sent from my ADR6425LVW using Tapatalk Quote
Marauder Posted January 13, 2014 Report Posted January 13, 2014 Off topic, but I think this is a funny and somewhat accurate representation of the ER experience. :-P Sent from my ADR6425LVW using Tapatalk   I think they are just getting prepared for their career in a cockpit... 1 Quote
fantom Posted January 13, 2014 Report Posted January 13, 2014 That sure looks like Parker in the upper left.... Â Must have been on a volunteer exchange program from Baylor. 1 Quote
aviatoreb Posted January 13, 2014 Report Posted January 13, 2014 I think they are just getting prepared for their career in a cockpit...  I think thats all the guys over at my at local ARTCC Boston Center!…Boston Center, Mooney N10933 with you, level FL-zero. 1 Quote
scottfromiowa Posted January 14, 2014 Report Posted January 14, 2014 Ummmm ya. Can we have the one when the girlfriends visited...instead? Quote
DrBill Posted January 14, 2014 Report Posted January 14, 2014 My younger son graduated from ERAU. He now is a captain for Piedmont Airlines. He has stories of his schooling (or lack thereof) like the time he broke his arm falling from a roof of a house when trying to go to the bathroom (so I'm told). I know he had a GREAT time there by the length of time it took him to graduate. But he is now doing what he loves to do and I'm proud of him. BILL 1 Quote
Hank Posted January 14, 2014 Report Posted January 14, 2014 I just flew on Piedmont last month. Must have been USAir Express. Quote
jetdriven Posted January 14, 2014 Report Posted January 14, 2014 The piedmont now is a regional carrier for US Airways. They fly dash 8s. Quote
Blackhawk Posted February 5, 2014 Report Posted February 5, 2014 Airplane is in a salvage yard. It may fly again, but I doubt it. As for those who have and those who are going to, while I applaud pilots for being pessimists there is no excuse for doing a gear up landing in a Mooney if you are flying the correct approach speeds. About the only way to hit the correct Vref is to lower the gear. 1 Quote
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