Sled Posted April 10, 2015 Report Posted April 10, 2015 Greetings fellow Mooney pilots! Join an active and fun bunch of your fellow Mooney enthusiasts and arrive at EAA Airventure in Oshkosh in style by flying in the Mooney Caravan! If you live in the Northeast part of the country (or Southeast for our friends north of the border) then your first step is to attend this regional clinic in Martinsburg to teach yourself basic formation flying skills. This is not flight instruction but a forum in which after some basic ground school you fly your own airplane with an observer in the right seat as a safety pilot and mentor. The goal of the clinic is to enable you to acquire and demonstrate basic formation skills that are prerequisite for participation in the annual Mooney Caravan to Oshkosh. And...besides that, it is great fun and some of the most challenging and rewarding flying you will do. It will be a blast of a weekend so even if you cannot make it to OSH this year, come out and join the fun. There's no formal registration, just give me an email or a phone call with your basics and any questions you may have. You are on your own for hotel reservations but we will have a van for ground transport to/from the airport. All participants must download and become familiar with the basic 2-ship maneuvers described in the Mooney Caravan Formation Guide. Download it using the the link below and READ IT SEVERAL TIMES before arrival in Martinsburg. The ground school will be short and is attended as a review of this material and a forum for discussion and your questions. Attendees that are unfamiliar with this material will not fly close to other airplanes! http://www.mooneycaravan.com/training/MooneyCaravanFormationGuide-Rev3-March2013.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1 See you there! - Adam "Sled"Carney MOONEY FORMATION CLINIC - NORTHEAST REGION Dates: May 15-17 Location: Martinsburg, WV (KMRB - Eastern WV Regional) Contact: Adam Carney (adam@mooney27d.com) Fee: $50 cash includes: • Event Tee Shirt • Pack of line up cards • Coffee/Snacks Sat/Sun • Lunch Sat • Local Transportation (van) • Incidentals Registration Deadline: May 3 Please register with Adam Carney by email or phone adam@mooney27d.com 732-433-7764 Specify tee-shirt size, arrival date (Friday or Saturday), type/model aircraft, time in type, prior formation experience (if any) and name of co-pilot/passenger. Hotel: Hampton Inn Martinsburg 975 Foxcroft Ave Martinsburg, WV 25401 304-267-2900 FBO: Aero-Smith, Inc. 304-262-2507 / 800-550-2507 Schedule Friday May 15 Arrive by 18:00 Group Dinner for early arrivals: TBD Saturday May 16 Basic Training - 2 Ship Basic Ground School: 08:30 Basic Training and Recurrent Training Sorties remainder of day Debriefs & Lunch on Field Group Dinner / Social near the hotel Sunday May 17 Basic Training - 2 Ship Basic and Recurrent Training 2-ship sorties Mass Formation / Caravan Simulation TBD Quote
Don Scorese Posted April 14, 2015 Report Posted April 14, 2015 This was a great weekend of flying last year with a very knowlegable and fun group of people. Count me in! I have done the Mooney Caravan twice so far and recommend it to anyone who wants to go to Oshkosh. See you at MRB, Sled. Quote
Seth Posted April 15, 2015 Report Posted April 15, 2015 I plan to sign up as long as my wife is okay. She'll be at 38 weeks by that Saturday. Due date June 2nd. Good news is if I have to leave, it's a very quick flight to GAI (Gaithersburg, MD). As many of you have read from the first formation flying thread years ago, I've always wanted to receive proper training. Who else is signing up? NJ Mooney group? It's not that far! I can count 15 pilots/aircraft I've met at our get togethers who may enjoy this. -Seth 1 Quote
Houman Posted May 18, 2015 Report Posted May 18, 2015 Had a great day today flying both lead and then later wingman, Adam is a great safety pilot and put alot of effort organizing it. Would love to do it again soon. Thanks for all the efforts for organizing this weekend ! Quote
Seth Posted May 18, 2015 Report Posted May 18, 2015 Great experience. Thanks to Adam, Woody, and the others for putting this together. Will upload some pics and videos shortly. -Seth Quote
Seth Posted May 18, 2015 Report Posted May 18, 2015 My final flight of the weekend was a four ship flight. I was the #2 ship - right wing off lead. We took off, created a Diamond formation for the first two passes over the filed and then transitioned to an Echelon formation for an overhead break and landing. I learned a lot this weekend. It's just like learning to fly a Mooney for the first time - it's ahead of you and very quickly you get ahead of the aircraft. I have a lot to learn still but I wanted to thank Joe, a member here on MooneySpace for being my safety pilot most of the time. He flew #3 ship (left wing) in the diamond formation and was #3 for the Echelon pass. These videos were taken by another pilot attending the event from the ground. I think the Diamond Pass is the best of the three. -Seth Diamond Formation Pass.MOV Echelon Overhead Break.MOV Four Ship Formation Departure.MOV Quote
yvesg Posted May 18, 2015 Report Posted May 18, 2015 Great work folks. Looking forward to meet you all in Madison in July. Yves Quote
RocketAviator Posted May 18, 2015 Report Posted May 18, 2015 Sled, I am beyond excited for you guys!!! Thanks to you and all those that helped put on this clinic, well done! I wish I could have gotten there to help. I will do my best if any way possible to try and come help next year if you put on another clinic... (& I SURE HOPE YOU DO), appreciate as much advance notice of a date as possible to enable me to participate. HATS OFF TO YOU ALL!!!! It is great to see action in the East Coast! Keep up the Great Work.... Oh there is one last detail that needs to be worked out.... What are you going to NAME your Group.... We have the Gunfighters from the Yuma Clinic Texas Wing (yea you know where we are from....El Paso, Kerrville, San Marcos) The group from CA I think they go by Norcal.... but I am not sure. SO WHO & WHAT ARE YOU ALL GOING TO BE KNOWN AS??? Be aware there might just be a little friendly "throw down competition".... Texas Wing is the odds to win favorite of course!!! Fly safe and thanks again to everyone, Lacee / RocketAviator (RocketMan) Quote
Houman Posted May 19, 2015 Report Posted May 19, 2015 Sled, I am beyond excited for you guys!!! Thanks to you and all those that helped put on this clinic, well done! I wish I could have gotten there to help. I will do my best if any way possible to try and come help next year if you put on another clinic... (& I SURE HOPE YOU DO), appreciate as much advance notice of a date as possible to enable me to participate. HATS OFF TO YOU ALL!!!! It is great to see action in the East Coast! Keep up the Great Work.... Oh there is one last detail that needs to be worked out.... What are you going to NAME your Group.... We have the Gunfighters from the Yuma Clinic Texas Wing (yea you know where we are from....El Paso, Kerrville, San Marcos) The group from CA I think they go by Norcal.... but I am not sure. SO WHO & WHAT ARE YOU ALL GOING TO BE KNOWN AS??? Be aware there might just be a little friendly "throw down competition".... Texas Wing is the odds to win favorite of course!!! Fly safe and thanks again to everyone, Lacee / RocketAviator (RocketMan) It would have been great to meet you there, I was the only Rocket owner there. Quote
Sled Posted May 21, 2015 Author Report Posted May 21, 2015 Hi Everyone, Let me take this opportunity to declare the first Northeast Regional Formation Clinic a complete success! The weather turned out better than forecast and afforded us two full days of perfectly flyable, if not CAVU conditions. So we had a little mist and low clouds, nothing we can't handle. Everybody that said they were coming, came. We flew all day, both days. All the first-timers got wing time and did great. It really is amazing how much skills improve in just two days. The eastern region may be lightly represented in the Mooney Caravan, but we are coming on strong. Thanks again to the Northeast Bonanza Group which came through with safety pilots (thanks Woodie, Mike, Andy and Eric) and all the ground-ops support. I've got nothing but positive feedback on the event (lousy Subway sandwiches not withstanding) and can't wait to do it all again. I wish I could quit my day job. Oh, and after riding in a Rocket, I think I'm airplane shopping again. I was so busy that I didn't take much in the way of pics and video - so if you got some good pics/clips, send them my way so I can put together a montage for posting. Fly safe and keep your calendar open for practice! See you BEFORE Oshkosh! And Lacee.... I'm thinking about it.....carefully -Adam "Sled" Carney 2 Quote
Houman Posted May 21, 2015 Report Posted May 21, 2015 Sled, I got couple of videos that are a bit large in file size, I haven't converted them to .mov format, if you want I can send them by email or if you have a dropbox or something. Some of them are already on my facebook, including the one when I was right seat with you. Quote
yvesg Posted May 26, 2015 Report Posted May 26, 2015 Houman, put them on youtube if you can and post the links here :-) Yves Quote
Seth Posted June 2, 2015 Report Posted June 2, 2015 We'll have to get a better camera next time so the flybys and air to air shots are that much better. We want to look like George Perry's Eagle in the air to air shots! It's really neat to have a picture of yourself flying your own airplane. -Seth http://mooneyspace.com/gallery/image/36702-formation-1/ Quote
Hank Posted June 2, 2015 Report Posted June 2, 2015 We'll have to get a better camera next time so the flybys and air to air shots are that much better. We want to look like George Perry's Eagle in the air to air shots! It's really neat to have a picture of yourself flying your own airplane. -Seth I'll second that! This is me departing Sunday, I'm actually recognizable if you zoom in. Hope to one day get a higher photo. Hmmm . . . Looks like the gear was still going up. 1 Quote
carusoam Posted June 2, 2015 Report Posted June 2, 2015 I think Mike Fizer would be the Ansell Adams of color and aviation photography... (Memory check on George's photographer?) Best regards, -a- 1 Quote
Belg Posted January 28, 2017 Report Posted January 28, 2017 Good morning.... introductions later but I'm starting to work on my PPL this year and was wondering if this happens every year? I'm right under the downwind at martinsburg and would like to see a mooney up close and personal; my dad swears by them. Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but it beats the alternatives on my phone :-) Thanks, Mark Quote
carusoam Posted January 28, 2017 Report Posted January 28, 2017 (edited) Good morning Mark! Resurrecting old threads intentionally is perfectly fine. Resurrecting one accidently is fine to, it just looks a bit funny... Formation flying is a year round event occurring in different parts of North America. regional groups get together for an annual event out in Oshkosh, Wi. Start training, there is always room for more. Search for Mooney Caravan for additional information... Best regards, -a- Edited January 28, 2017 by carusoam Quote
Oscar Avalle Posted February 6, 2017 Report Posted February 6, 2017 Good morning to everybody! I was wondering if there were some news about the dates for the formation clinic for us on the East Coast? Oscar Quote
Bob_Belville Posted February 6, 2017 Report Posted February 6, 2017 19 minutes ago, Oscar Avalle said: Good morning to everybody! I was wondering if there were some news about the dates for the formation clinic for us on the East Coast? Oscar Oscar, I have not seen anything final on date and place. We've been promised that as soon as that is set it will be communicated, including here. Lee (Sox) Fox, who is on MS, will know. 1 Quote
Oscar Avalle Posted February 6, 2017 Report Posted February 6, 2017 Oscar, I have not seen anything final on date and place. We've been promised that as soon as that is set it will be communicated, including here. Lee (Sox) Fox, who is on MS, will know. Great. Thank you.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote
Fly By Posted February 8, 2017 Report Posted February 8, 2017 You can expect a posting very shortly. Goat is working out some last minute details, but the Mid-Atlantic Clinic will be at LYH (Lynchburg, VA) on June 23-25. Thanks for your interest and eagerness. Stay tuned! Quote
Bob_Belville Posted February 9, 2017 Report Posted February 9, 2017 Jim sent a notice to the MAG mailing list this evening. KLYH should be a great field for our purposes. Quote
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