Speed Brakes (How To Use?)

[fantom]

Quote: 16LPilot

.....I definitely looked cooler (also could be my imagination).

[HopePilot]

...I don't know.  I tried to be cool, but I couldn't stop the theme from Top Gun playing in my head.  I'm thinking of installing a large speaker in my tailcone to blast thrust-reversal sound effects when they deploy.

[MooneyMitch]

Like Ricky Bobby...................I want to go fast, I want to go FAST!!................now, you want to go SLOW?  So what's with this, eh?  LOL

Awesome, you have added another great tool to your Mooney tool chest.  Way to go!!!

[HopePilot]

Here's the thing Mitch.  Now I can go faster...longer!  Starting my descent forty miles out was slowing me down.  

Yeah, the wife says I fly the Mooney too slow...trying to see how much fuel efficiency I can get.  I seriously get as excited about efficiency as I do speed.

[fantom]

Quote: 16LPilot

....I seriously get as excited about efficiency as I do speed.

[HopePilot]

If you watch my flying videos you'll notice a lot of loving, tight, shots of my fuel flow...

 

[dlthig]

Flew to Santa Maria today, so here are some more observations.  I had warned the wife to expect all hell to break loose when they were deployed, based on my last experience.  I had a couple good opportunities to use the.  I had to stay three thousand feet high as I approached KSMX due to overtaking some traffic below me.  I hit the button at about 135 knots and my wife braced herself and she's not the bracing kind.  The speed brakes came out of the wings and...nothing.  I don't mean we didn't start decending, it just wasn't the loud rumbling I had heard on the previous trip.  Again, I found myself getting low quicker than I expected and I easily made it down without any problem (for burritos and a fried ice cream the size of a cantalope).  On the way back to KBUR (at a place where I like to be at 3000 coming in to the airport), I was asked to stay above 4500, also, due to traffic (the pattern of the day).  Normally, that would have been a problem, but having the ability to modulate my descent, we easily got on glideslope.  This time, I extended and retracting them twice to fine-tune everything.  In summary, you can use them coming into the airport with out freaking out your passengers (assuming you're below about 130 knots).

Now my transponder is acting up (no altitude).  Guess it's going back to the shop.

 

By the way this is not dlthig.  Mooney Space is doing something weird.  16LPilot...out.