201er Posted July 3, 2020 Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 A few weeks ago, flying the Hudson, I ended up making a spontaneous touch and go at Newark International airport. Well, it happened again! This time at JFK! Yesterday, I was flying the south shore (Coney Island and Rockaway) when I realized how not busy Kennedy Airport was. Now taking off from Linden, Newark was cooking. An almost usual stream of arrivals on the conga line was coming into Newark. I figured my chance to hit the major metro airports might be over. But, the hand off from Newark Tower to Kennedy Tower brought on a different story. Upon initial contact with Kennedy Tower, I stated "Mooney 4361H, 1400 coming down to 500 for the south short." To which Kennedy responded that I could stay at 1000 since there aren't any arrivals. That got me thinking about a low approach to get a closer look at how busy the airport is (and avoid a landing fee), but Kennedy said I could only do a full-stop taxi-back. Why not!? So I did. I turned in from the shorline for a 45 left downwind to 31L, the longest runway on the east coast! Spanning 14,500ft it's nearly 3 miles of pavement to land on. Yet, I touched just short of the numbers (cause I wanted to see the numbers in the video as I was landing). When I started in, there wasn't a plane on or near the runway. By the time I was touching down, they had 3 jets waiting for me. Quite an amazing experience. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carusoam Posted July 3, 2020 Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 Amazing, Mikey! -a- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooneyMitch Posted July 3, 2020 Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 Super awesomely fun and super cool! Making black marks where no black marks were before..... well, ok, maybe no black marks, but what a unique experience for you. Thank you for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elimansour Posted July 3, 2020 Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 That is so cool!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooneyMitch Posted July 3, 2020 Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 It would have been fun to listen holding jet traffic cockpit chatter as you flew across their windscreen ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar Avalle Posted July 3, 2020 Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 Really nice! But on the other hand sad.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry 5TJ Posted July 3, 2020 Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 Nice! Landing at JFK is cool, but the real thrill is taxiing. Back in pre-CoVid January I landed on 31L. The FBO is at Q1. Departures were going out on 22R. It took about 40 minutes to get to 22R. The flight home to Baltimore was quicker than the taxi time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsxrpilot Posted July 3, 2020 Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 Very cool! @201er is always ahead of his Mooney and thinking ahead of the rapid fire controllers at Kennedy as well! Well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooneyMitch Posted July 3, 2020 Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 57 minutes ago, Jerry 5TJ said: Nice! Landing at JFK is cool, but the real thrill is taxiing. Back in pre-CoVid January I landed on 31L. The FBO is at Q1. Departures were going out on 22R. It took about 40 minutes to get to 22R. The flight home to Baltimore was quicker than the taxi time. I spent a week taxing at JFK one day ....... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliffy Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 Landed there many times in Boeings JFK and ORD are where (in the busy times past) the big boys go to play! :-) :-) I was #44 in line for T/O once. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 Terrific video. That is one heck of a long displaced threshold. Nice job handling that. Also, fun that JFK tower cleared you for the visual when, I assume, you were VFR. Shows how few VFR flights they have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaMan Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 10 hours ago, cliffy said: Landed there many times in Boeings JFK and ORD are where (in the busy times past) the big boys go to play! :-) :-) I was #44 in line for T/O once. I feel like pax probably dislike seeing a piston single in the queue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marauder Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 I feel like pax probably dislike seeing a piston single in the queue. Nah, they were too busy making sure their masks weren’t leaking around the edges. We don’t know how lucky we are to be able to fly the country without the stress of knowing not what our fellow passengers are carrying with them.Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliffy Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 11 hours ago, cliffy said: Landed there many times in Boeings JFK and ORD are where (in the busy times past) the big boys go to play! :-) :-) I was #44 in line for T/O once. You needed your "A" game there Not many (any?) GA airports have a Penalty Box for transgressors to ATC commands ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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