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9° to 70° Mooney Flight

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201er Grand Master

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Flew my bird from Linden where it was 9°F this morning with 20mph winds and wind chill in the negative Faranheit to sunny Orlando where it is over 70! Spent two hours chipping away 2" thick ice that engulfed all of the wheels from previously melted snow. Departed wearing many layers but had to strip them away one by one as we proceeded south. Takes some acrobatics to get under layer pants off! Encountered some IMC but made it through before it turned to icing. Flight time into strong headwinds was just a little over six hours and a half. Fuel used was right about what a normal J would hold with the engine sputtering out on roll out or maybe on short final depending on how usable the unusable fuel is. Will be replacing it with $3.99 avgas. :)

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Marauder Grand Master

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You lucky Bast$&d! I was commenting to the wife tonight that we should have gone to Florida this week to get away from this crappy, snowy weather. Bring us some warmth back with you Mike...

BTW - our gas at N57 just went to $4.31.

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yvesg Mentor

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Jeez Mike I was wondering how come you are almost never here anymore... with the pictures now I know what you are up to!

Yves

ArtVandelay Grand Master

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Departed wearing many layers but had to strip them away one by one as we proceeded south. Takes some acrobatics to get under layer pants off!

Is that what you call the in flight entertainment?

Welcome to Florida, unfortunately it will be cold here too come Wednesday, lows in the 30s....brrrr

aaronk25 Veteran

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Right behind you buddy were heading out from MN to St.pete FL early Friday. Only difference is unless I get 20kts on the tail that 6.5 hour flight time will put me running on fumes as I'm not long range equipped.

Tomorrow night is going to be -13f. So we're gonna pull the boat out of dry stack and do some boating then a cruise. Then back to the tundra!post-8452-14241813609046_thumb.jpg

Piloto Grand Master

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Very nice pictures. Hope you have a good time here in Florida. If you have the time fly to Key West and have lunch at Sloppy Joe. Post more pictures of your trip. You make a lovely couple.

 

José

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201er Grand Master

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Very nice pictures. Hope you have a good time here in Florida. If you have the time fly to Key West and have lunch at Sloppy Joe. Post more pictures of your trip. You make a lovely couple.

 

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Thanks. But no Key West this time. I did do a nonstop from ny to key west in 2014 on my way to the Caribbean expedition. Love my Mooney's long range capability.

I guess I should share another element to this story. This was an unplanned trip. We had already gone here in December. My mother had a trip planned here and a very nice hotel prepaid but got sick and couldn't go. So, owning an airplane makes last minute air travel a comfortable reality. Last I checked, airline tix would have been over $700 a person. With avgas so declined lately, this roundtrip will cost less in gas then airfare for even just one. My bird needs the exercise anyway, been snowed in and grounded over a month. If it wasn't for the trip, I would have been too lazy to liberate her from her 2" thick frozen puddle.

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Danb Grand Master

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Mike I'm so jealous, just got finished snow blowing the driveway. I went to FLA. a couple weeks ago  and only spent 4 hours in sunny fla...nice trade in for the bird...

chrisk Veteran

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I took a look on flightaware.  You must have had a serious head wind with ground speeds at 105Kts!  When I'm flying with my daughter, she keeps a close eye on the ETA function of the GPS.  I've heard her ask more than once if we were going backwards.  --Oh what I would give to be 16 again. 

 

Hope your new flying buddy enjoys those long trips.  My daughter also can't get past the idea of relieving herself in the plane.  And of course being 16, she doesn't yet think a head and has a few ice teas before departing.  :)  It makes for 2 hour legs.  And a very predictable "Dad, when are we going to land?" at about 45 minutes into the flight.

carl Proficient

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I missed the part about your fuel tank range.

 

How many gallons does it hold ?

I have the regular 52 gal.

 

carl

bonal Grand Master

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Checked it out that 55 puts up some big numbers. We hit 70 degrees today hope to get some flying this weekend last trip I was a little off my game got to get up again soon and make good.

Marauder Grand Master

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You guys are going to the wrong corner of the country.

Last week the highs were around 80 and the lows were a bone chilling 55!

Sure, sure, sure... Rub it in. I think I am going to jump in the hot tub. What's a little walk on the deck in this weather?

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