If you didn't go - You really missed out!

[cliffy]

Just back from the Mooney Flyer Summit in Paso Robles, CA. If you missed it you missed a great time.

Over 30 airplanes arrived. LASAR was there, TOP GUN was there, Chandler Aviation was there, AND

MOONEY was there in force! Mr Chen the President, Ton Bowen, the COO and Chief Engineer Ron Blum were

there. Now tell me, what other aircraft manufactuer would come to a regional meeting of owners like that?

NONE, NOT ONE, ZILCH, ZERO! These guys have their act together to bring Moomey out of the dark ages of ups

and downs and into the 21st Century. Their presentation was very interesting on what they are doing in the

Calif. Engineering Plant.

Phil Corman, Jim Price and their wives went WAY over board to make sure everyone had an excellent time.

AND WE DID!.

Great presentations, fantastic food. great venues (the air museum at KPRB has to be seen to be believed).

Mooney International even floated lunch on Saturdat, Thank You Mooney!

The FBO gave us truck fuel at SS prices. Volunteers were arranged for transportation. All in all a very

well planned event.

If you didn't go you REALLY missed out.

[kmyfm20s]

I bet it was good! I really wanted to go but it was the kids last day of school on Friday and nephew graduation. Too many family obligations. Hopefully no conflicts next year:)

[Houman]

Hopefully they will do something similar in the North-east side of the continent, not just Texas or California...

[bonal]

Would have loved to have been there. we were going to drop in on Saturday just to look around but we weren't feeling up for the longer day so we went to a local fly in at Garberville only 35 min. away.  Never been there and Garberville is a tricky little field to get into.

I hope someone that went to Paso posts some pictures.

[Bennett]

Very well done. The only improvement I can think of is having the name tags also list Mooneyspace names (voluntarily) as well. I'm sure quite a few Mooney folk are Mooneyspace contributors, but it would be great to match names. Not only was the aviation museum interesting (the docents were extremely helpful and knowledgeable), the adjacent automobile museum was fascinating. Transportation for the winery tours on Friday were done in fully restored 1950 and 1960 automobiles. The organization of the event was fantastic, with smiles and goodwill everywhere.

The presentation by Ron Blum, Chief Engineer for Mooney on AOAs was of special interest in striking down some old "common" knowledge. Others being helpful were Don Kaye, and vendors such as ArtCraft (I'm biased - Theresa used my airplane in their posters) . All in all, a wonderful day and a half of spending quality time with some of our Mooney community. In some good ways it felt like the old MAPA West days of decades ago.

The Mooney folk were candid and approachable. I spent a bit of time with Dr. Chen, who is very much better at one on one conversation than as a public speaker, and Ron Blum, who was very impressive (great aviation occupational background) and who took the time to listen, as well as to speak.

I hope that there will be future Summits.

I should also mention that Paso Robles was a fine place to hold the Summit. Two long well maintained runways, and plenty of ramp space to line up the Mooneys. The host FBO staff was very helpful, and the rental cars by Enterprise were reasonable in cost.

[Jerry 5TJ]

Thanks to Phil and Jim who organized and rolled out a great Mooney weekend full of social and training events.

[M20F-1968]

I second the thought that we in the Northeast would love to have and host a similar meeting.

 

John Breda

[donkaye]

It was a well planned and executed weekend.  We all had a great time.  It should be mentioned that we were fortunate to have a keynote speaker at Saturday's lunch, Captain David Koss, the Navy's Strike Fighter Wing Commander, Western Pacific Fleet , give an outstanding presentation.  I was not aware that Lemoore NAS out in the Valley had become such a major base in the West.  When I asked Phil how he was able to get him as as speaker he smiled and said he knew an Admiral pretty well...

[larryb]

I wanted to go but had prior committments. Please share what you learned, I'm curious as to what "common knowledge" is not correct.

 

Thanks, Larry

[cliffy]

For one- A stall only means that the amount of lift generated is not sufficiant to overcome the weight

It doesn't mean that ALL lift is lost. Maybe a nuance, but interesting in the least.

At the stall "most" wings are still generating about 80% lift due to the progreesive nature of the stall

along the wing from root to tip.

Aerodynamics from an engineer's satnd point compared to a pilot's stand point may be in degrees of fineness

of description.

[Johnnybgoode]

Tuft test your Mooney for a simple demonstration of this.

[M20S Driver]

It was a well planned and executed weekend.  We all had a great time.  It should be mentioned that we were fortunate to have a keynote speaker at Saturday's lunch, Captain David Koss, the Navy's Strike Fighter Wing Commander, Western Pacific Fleet , give an outstanding presentation.  I was not aware that Lemoore NAS out in the Valley had become such a major base in the West.  When I asked Phil how he was able to get him as as speaker he smiled and said he knew an Admiral pretty well...

 

I am glad that I attended.  It was a lot of fun and very educational.  

 

Don's booklet that he provided during his "Flying Your Mooney"  session and the all the wealth of Mooney knowledge in the "Maintenance Round Table"  made my day

 

Captain Koss not only is an ace pilot and commander, he has potential as a comedian.  His only problem is that he doesn't fly a Mooney.

[FlyDave]

Well planned and executed event!

I enjoyed the presentations, spent time with friends and met new Mooniac friends.

I'll definitely be attending the next west coast event.