Short / soft field Mooney takeoff

[Frank Rizzo]

 

 

 

[201er]

Didn’t stay in ground effect to build up some speed? Looked kind of gusty.

[Oscar Avalle]

Nice job! I loved the dog...


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[carusoam]

Way to go Frank!

Good thing he wasn’t a greyhound...  

Almost caught you!

 

Actual Mooney, real grass, no animals were harmed.... including the rodent scampering away early in the film...

Great timing... nose comes up at the videographer...

 

Need to get it perfect though....   the viewers need more Mooney acceleration in ground affect...

Lets see take two! 

Is that a real airport runway? Or is that somebody’s private strip..?   It is extra long, and nice and smooth...
 

I’d like to thank the videographer... great job!
 

Awesome Mooney video...

Best regards,

-a-

[AerostarDriver]

I have had very bad experiences with dogs at airports... It is highly recommended that you keep your dog on a leash or better yet not on airport. I while back I was working on restoring a Yak-52 in which the first flight post restoration was "exciting", a second flight a few weeks later brought the whole airport out to watch. A dog decided to chase after the nose wheel of the airplane. It was a sad day for all parties involved. Happened again a few months later with a 182 that I was working on.

[Planegary]

I have a friend that was trying to depart Gastons (3M0) in a navion .during takeoff roll a flock of geese suddenly decided to cross the runway. Numerous dead and injured geese and several thousand dollars of parts later he finally got out of there. He told me that the people that were vacationing there (not the owners of the resort) were mad for him injuring the geese and not friendly at all to the chance of him being injured or the damage to his plane. The gist of the attitudes were they wanted to see geese and not planes 

Edited February 14, 2021 by Planegary
Correcting navion

[jetdriven]

A Navion is so tough that you could probably plow through a herd of deer and still get airborne and go back home. 

[RobertGary1]

In Mexico taking off on the beach id trim pull back and it gives increased nose up authority. That way the take off roll is with the nose off the ground. 

Edited February 14, 2021 by RobertGary1

[RobertGary1]

6 hours ago, 201er said:

Didn’t stay in ground effect to build up some speed? Looked kind of gusty.

Probably not going for a soft field technique. The elevator would have been back at the stop until the nose came up. 

[carusoam]

So much detail was captured in the video...

Of course... I watched it several times... looking for this detail, and that...  

With surprise as I noticed different things, like the rodent... that I didn’t see the first time...  

Go HD!

Best regards,

-a-

[Frank Rizzo]

Full or half flaps and roll the trim half way between normal TO range and full aft (from operating manual),   elevator held full aft until nosewheel very light or a few inches off the ground--It would have been in video but grass a several inches tall--and your Mooney will float off the ground like a C180.      Do not try in M20B w/o right xwind (conditions in video)  or your B will head to the weeds left.      No animals were harmed during the making of this film.

 

F Rizzo 

Edited February 14, 2021 by Frank Rizzo