Talk about long cross country flights

[Oscar Avalle]

Yesterday at the airport I met the crew of this mooney that had crossed the pond all the way from Switzerland to Guatemala.


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[Seth]

That aircraft was at KGAI in Maryland just outside DC on Monday. My buddy took a picture of it and sent it to me.

Glad they had a safe trip!

-Seth

[carusoam]

Have Mo(o)ney, will travel...

Something like that?

Somebody added an extra o just for us...

Bravo, go intercontinenal Mooney!

-a-

[prflyer]

Very cool.  I had posted about this airplane here on MooneySpace just last week.  Great to know that they are doing well on their adventure.

 

http://mooneyspace.com/topic/15761-long-cross-country/

 

Fernando

[Oscar Avalle]

I did not realize that it was the same...

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[bonal]

Very impressive no question these Mooney's are real traveling machines. I wonder if the owners have visited Mooney Space

[Oscar Avalle]

I will try to contact them here in Guatemala.

[Bob_Belville]

Whereto next? SAWH?

[fantom]

That prop is as great as it looks! 

[Oscar Avalle]

I am going to have lunch with the pilots on Monday. It seems that they are going back to via Texas (mooney factory) and Iowa.

[Piloto]

The plane looks great (my favorite paint scheme) but the ramp needs some work.

José

[Raptor05121]

Let them know to drop into MooneySpace

[Oscar Avalle]

I had lunch yesterday with Markus and Ernst. Both are the owners of HB DHA. Wonderful plane. I told them about Mooneyspace and that some of us had seen their plane and that we were interested in knowing more about their flight. They were surprised... and  told me that they had flown the route already twice and that it was not too much of a deal. I asked them about the prop, and they told me that thanks to that prop their landing fees at european airports was much lower... They had also done some mods to the plane, in particular to the cowling to improve cooling! It seems that they had worked around the baffling system. My swiss german is not good enough to understand all the technical details...

 

From there they were going to fly to Brownsville and the to the Mooney Factory. From there they would start their flight back to Europe.

 

I told them about our www side and let's see if they sign up.

[StinkBug]

I'm curious how a prop would effect landing fees?

[Guest]

I'm curious how a prop would effect landing fees?

It could be the noise profile. The MT on my E model and the one on my 400 sound quite different from metal propellers.

Clarence

[Oscar Avalle]

Yes, indeed that is the reason. The noise profile seems to be very different.

[chrisk]

So, what kind of Mooney is this?  A 252?

[jkhirsch]

Man that paint job with the lines on that plane and the color on the prop matching the Swiss badge, that's a great looking Mooney.

[Oscar Avalle]

They told me that it had a  225 hp turbo engine.

[flyboy0681]

 these Mooney's are real traveling machines. 

 

After an adjustment from a local chiropractor, they will be as good as new.

[cliffy]

I posted previously about a month or so ago about a couple in an "E" model that came over from Europe via Cape Verde

Straight across to Recife, Brazil. 11 hrs with 16 hrs fuel. They have flown all over the world in their E.

It's called "Honey-Mooney" and they have a website of the same name.

Not only that but they have come across the pond 5 times now.

[Mooney20]

When I was younger, I entertained the idea of crossing the North Atlantic in my Mooney. After crossing it a many times in a big airplane, there is no way I'd consider it now. I guess I've gotten multi-engine religion in my old age. One of my colleagues, early in his flying career, used to do it all the time ferrying everything from C-172s, to crop dusters, to Caravans. Some of those trips took him all the way to South Africa.

[DaV8or]

When I was younger, I entertained the idea of crossing the North Atlantic in my Mooney. After crossing it a many times in a big airplane, there is no way I'd consider it now. I guess I've gotten multi-engine religion in my old age. One of my colleagues, early in his flying career, used to do it all the time ferrying everything from C-172s, to crop dusters, to Caravans. Some of those trips took him all the way to South Africa.

 

Yep. I've never flown anything across the oceans, but I've been a passenger. I'm super glad others do though. I watch them and live through them. No way I'll take that risk. One look at the necessary "survival gear" and I'm out.

[Hank]

Dave, the Viking Route minimizes the length of overwater legs, replacing some of it with overland, oversnow and overglacier.

Or you can try Honeymooney's route and cross from Brazil to Africa, which has the benefit of being much warmer water. I spoke to them when they stopped in headed to New Orleans. They were very nice and seemed to be enjoying themselves early in their fifth US trip.

[Guest]

When I was younger, I entertained the idea of crossing the North Atlantic in my Mooney. After crossing it a many times in a big airplane, there is no way I'd consider it now. I guess I've gotten multi-engine religion in my old age. One of my colleagues, early in his flying career, used to do it all the time ferrying everything from C-172s, to crop dusters, to Caravans. Some of those trips took him all the way to South Africa.

A client of mine was half way between Scotland and Iceland when he lost a mag on his 340. He turned back to Scotland believing he had more chance of repairs their than continuing on. This was after 60 hours cruising around Europe. He was glad to be in his twin not his Mooney.

Clarence