cliffy Posted September 15, 2020 Report Posted September 15, 2020 5 minutes ago, carusoam said: Fixed gear Mooneys are so safe... The insurance companies pay you an annual payment... The nose wheel of the fixed gear Mooney is so strong... you get four bounces before the nose wheel collapses... If the gear on my fixed gear Mooney actually collapses... I would have to sneak into MS under an assumed name.... 1) Everyone will know what happened... 2) Something would give me away... 3) It would take me a few posts to improve my disguise... PP thoughts only, my best attempts at comedy... clearly not a comedian... Best regards, -a- Lets try to think out of the box to keep Mooney afloat as obviously what has transpired in the past hasn't worked MANY TIMES! 1 Quote
Guillaume Posted September 20, 2020 Report Posted September 20, 2020 For those interested, the french NTSB just published an investigation report on a Mooney nose gear collapse. Improper maintenance lead to the failure. 1 Quote
Hank Posted September 20, 2020 Report Posted September 20, 2020 45 minutes ago, Guillaume said: For those interested, the french NTSB just published an investigation report on a Mooney nose gear collapse. Improper maintenance lead to the failure. For those who think the FAA and NTSB are slow, this Incident was in Nov. 2013; the report was published in June 2020. Apparently someone used needle nose pliers to loosen and retighten the nuts on the landing gear actuation rod at the gearbox end . . . . Because it's so difficult to grab a wrench? Or because standard wrenches are difficult to find in France, the home the metric system? Quote
Guillaume Posted September 21, 2020 Report Posted September 21, 2020 17 hours ago, Hank said: Because it's so difficult to grab a wrench? Or because standard wrenches are difficult to find in France, the home the metric system? US tools are not difficult to find over here. I would say that half of the GA fleet is composed of US made aircraft. Quote
cliffy Posted September 21, 2020 Report Posted September 21, 2020 Spanners? spanners? We don't need no spanners over here! :-) Quote
philiplane Posted September 22, 2020 Author Report Posted September 22, 2020 (edited) Ok, we're on a record stretch as of this morning. Six days with NO Mooney incidents. Have we run out of Mooneys already? Edited September 22, 2020 by philiplane Quote
Missile=Awesome Posted September 22, 2020 Report Posted September 22, 2020 51 minutes ago, philiplane said: Ok, we're on a record stretch as of this morning. Six days with NO Mooney incidents. Have we run out of Mooneys already? Announcer’s hex? Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Try holding your breath. Quote
gsxrpilot Posted September 22, 2020 Report Posted September 22, 2020 4 hours ago, philiplane said: Ok, we're on a record stretch as of this morning. Six days with NO Mooney incidents. Have we run out of Mooneys already? Dude, you can't be talking about a no hitter while it's in progress! Everyone knows that! 2 Quote
kortopates Posted September 28, 2020 Report Posted September 28, 2020 What a rare Monday morning wrt to the FAA incidents reports on Mooney's. Mooney has now gone 10 full days without a single incident report and as such Mooney didn't even make the list of over 40 different airframe company's. Lets hope it continues! 3 Quote
philiplane Posted September 28, 2020 Author Report Posted September 28, 2020 3 hours ago, kortopates said: What a rare Monday morning wrt to the FAA incidents reports on Mooney's. Mooney has now gone 10 full days without a single incident report and as such Mooney didn't even make the list of over 40 different airframe company's. Lets hope it continues! So we DID run out of Mooneys? 2 Quote
RobertGary1 Posted September 29, 2020 Report Posted September 29, 2020 On 9/6/2020 at 7:41 PM, zaitcev said: How comes you guys aren't discussing a disabled Mooney blocking the only remaining runway today in Austin, Texas (KAUS)? I saw a picture on FB with 9 airliners stuck on the taxiway. I would not be surprised if it's a gear-up landing. I went flying today and it was rather uneventful. Checked the gear on base and final. Wonder why. Here the airport manager has a tractor with a dozer on the front. He says if a GA plane is disabled on the runway he can just push it off. Can't stop the freighters. -Robert Quote
Hank Posted September 29, 2020 Report Posted September 29, 2020 13 hours ago, RobertGary1 said: Wonder why. Here the airport manager has a tractor with a dozer on the front. He says if a GA plane is disabled on the runway he can just push it off. Can't stop the freighters. Glad I'm not based wherever "here" is!! Quote
steingar Posted September 29, 2020 Report Posted September 29, 2020 Weather is starting to get bad... Quote
philiplane Posted October 1, 2020 Author Report Posted October 1, 2020 An M20K had a prop strike upon landing in Seeley Lake Montana. This was posted today by the FAA, but with an incident date of September 3rd. Quote
philiplane Posted October 6, 2020 Author Report Posted October 6, 2020 M20F gear collapsed on landing 10-2-2020 Denver CO M20G landed gear up 10-4-2020 Winnsboro SC back on track for an awful year. 2 Quote
philiplane Posted October 19, 2020 Author Report Posted October 19, 2020 A Mooney M18C gear collapsed upon landing, Newark Ohio. October 17th. Quote
Mooneymite Posted October 19, 2020 Report Posted October 19, 2020 A different type of Mooney, but still a gear up. TBM Quote
kpaul Posted October 20, 2020 Report Posted October 20, 2020 17 hours ago, Mooneymite said: A different type of Mooney, but still a gear up. TBM I don't know why anyone would be in that much of a hurry to land in Brownsville. 2 Quote
larrynimmo Posted October 24, 2020 Report Posted October 24, 2020 This year won’t end soon enough.... Quote
philiplane Posted October 29, 2020 Author Report Posted October 29, 2020 eight days with no incidents, and all is well.... 1 Quote
Parker_Woodruff Posted November 4, 2020 Report Posted November 4, 2020 Underwriting feedback from a top tier insurance company this morning was they're hesitant to reduce training requirements on Mooney transitions due to a lot of Mooney gear up landings. 1 Quote
tmo Posted November 4, 2020 Report Posted November 4, 2020 Are the gear-ups really mainly low Mooney time pilots? Quote
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