A Warm Fuzzy Mooney Moment

[jkenney]

This weekend took a cross country from my homebase of KTOA to KSQL.  Decided to do a GPS Z approach into SQL for proficiency, even though weather was VMC.

About 15 miles out got a call from ATC: "Mooney 9154x, slow approach speed 20 knots to avoid overtaking a Skylane on 7 mile final"

I said to my wife "That is why I bought a Mooney!"

 

[Ned Gravel]

Same thing happened to me yesterday on an instrument flight at 10 miles inbound to the FAF for an approach to Ottawa (CYOW).  ATC asks me to "say indicated airspeed."

"145 knots," I reply (had to read the inner ring)

"Mooney SWR, slow to 130 knots, for sequencing," he says.

Took some time, but I did and still had to be vectored away because I was catching up to the Cessna.  Got vectored back onto final and broke out at 2000' AGL.  Dontcha luv the sight of that runway on final after being in the soup for the last 40 minutes?

I love flying my Mooney