201er Texas to NJ Nonstop In Progress Now

[GeeBee]

1 hour ago, 201er said:

Cheers 

Well done! Nicely planned flight

How do you drink iced tea without having to pee? You're me killing man! I love tea, but I don't drink it closer than two hours to departure.

[201er]

This was my second longest flight by distance 1380nm (longest was Denver to Linden 1400nm) but a pretty short one by time. Only 7:30 in flight time. Had a bunch of 8+ hour flights before but not quite as far.

Very nice tailwind this time. Was planning for 150KTAS at 9000 with a 30 knot tailwind. Ended up getting a few knots extra out of the airplane and a few out of the tailwind making it closer to 190 knots ground speed for much of the way. All while at or slightly lean of peak at 8.0gph. 

WOT produced 21” and RPM 2560. OAT went from 15C down to 2C as the flight progressed.

Fuel used for the flight was only 62 gallons. Landed with 38 remaining.

Weather was absolute clear and smooth all the way. Rare to have such a large swatch of the country without weather. I didn’t pick the weather. It just happened to work out so favorably for my return.

Had a top notch in flight meal service.

 

And no limits on the beverage cart!

 

 

[hammdo]

I see you have your 'golden peak' pee bottle there ;o)

awesome trip! Thanks for sharing...

-Don

[N9656G]

Mike Mooney 201! What a great ride. My fiancé and I headed to Clearwater beach this week from KSBY she’s getting into longer flights (we’re both 27) & it’s a dream come true. We have flown about 170 hours since September and I am in AWE of the 201. It’s the best airplane I think I’ll ever own. 

 

keep on flying guys. Let’s keep GA alive. 

[Danb]

17 hours ago, Hank said:

He found the right wife if she's up for 8-hour flights!  

I don't really want to do that myself. I start getting restless by 4 hours, and when landing at 4:45, I was very ready to stand up and walk around.

Cute to

[Danb]

15 hours ago, Marauder said:

The big question is whether or not he is wearing his trademark “Stinky Pants” cargo pants.


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Expand please..what does stinky pants stand for

[Danb]

13 hours ago, 201er said:

Cheers 

Mikey how do you send pix in flight 

[Marauder]

4 hours ago, Danb said:

Expand please..what does stinky pants stand for

Dan, Dan, Dan... you need to get out more often! When Mike would come to our fly-ins, I noticed that he was always wearing the same cargo pants. In fact, upon further research it appears that he wore these same cargo pants EVERYWHERE he flew (ex. the Caribbean trip, the Artic Circle trip). Just curious if Mrs. 201er finally got him to wash them. Here is a photo from back in 2016.

[201er]

Texas yesterday, landing on Alton Bay NH ice runway today.

 

[Marauder]

3 minutes ago, 201er said:

Texas yesterday, landing on Alton Bay NH ice runway today.

 

Let's see the pants!

[Hank]

1 hour ago, 201er said:

Texas yesterday, landing on Alton Bay NH ice runway today.

 

Glad someone is having fun today! I'm at work, watching the rain fall . . . . .

Wait, it is really "fun" if the ice is anywhere other than inside your glass???

[Ragsf15e]

10 hours ago, 201er said:

Texas yesterday, landing on Alton Bay NH ice runway today.

 

Dude that’s awesome! 
But what pants were you wearing?

[201er]

On 2/20/2022 at 4:03 PM, Marauder said:

The big question is whether or not he is wearing his trademark “Stinky Pants” cargo pants.

[steingar]

I coulda sworn the two of them had a yard ape somewhere...

[Hank]

1 minute ago, steingar said:

I coulda sworn the two of them had a yard ape somewhere...

The only thing worse than sitting in the cockpit for eight hours would be doing so with an infant in the back seat . . . . .

[Ragsf15e]

1 hour ago, Hank said:

The only thing worse than sitting in the cockpit for eight hours would be doing so with an infant in the back seat . . . . .

Yes and no.  We’re pretty damn stingy with TV / screen time around our house. However, when we hop in the airplane for a flight to grandmas, we hand the 6 year olds their Kindles with movies, cartoons, etc.  Peace and quiet ensues for the next 4 hours.  As a bonus, my wife and kids want to go on trips all the time - wife because she gets to read her big books and kids because they get to watch movies.  I just feel a little wrong/dirty that my kids want to go flying more (much more) for old spider man cartoons and Disney flicks than they do for the wonders of flight.  I hope I’m not raising more people who never look up at the sound of airplanes going over…

[skydvrboy]

3 hours ago, Ragsf15e said:

Yes and no.  We’re pretty damn stingy with TV / screen time around our house. However, when we hop in the airplane for a flight to grandmas, we hand the 6 year olds their Kindles with movies, cartoons, etc.  Peace and quiet ensues for the next 4 hours.  As a bonus, my wife and kids want to go on trips all the time - wife because she gets to read her big books and kids because they get to watch movies.  I just feel a little wrong/dirty that my kids want to go flying more (much more) for old spider man cartoons and Disney flicks than they do for the wonders of flight.  I hope I’m not raising more people who never look up at the sound of airplanes going over…

It seems it's either that or you have kids like mine.  They prefer taking the minivan because it has a DVD player with dual screens. 

[ilovecornfields]

9 hours ago, Ragsf15e said:

Yes and no.  We’re pretty damn stingy with TV / screen time around our house. However, when we hop in the airplane for a flight to grandmas, we hand the 6 year olds their Kindles with movies, cartoons, etc.  Peace and quiet ensues for the next 4 hours.  As a bonus, my wife and kids want to go on trips all the time - wife because she gets to read her big books and kids because they get to watch movies.  I just feel a little wrong/dirty that my kids want to go flying more (much more) for old spider man cartoons and Disney flicks than they do for the wonders of flight.  I hope I’m not raising more people who never look up at the sound of airplanes going over…

I think it’s inevitable with kids these days. I was flying with my son and I said “Look there’s Mt. Shasta just off the wing!” He looked up from his iPad for a second and said “That’s nice.”

At least he doesn’t use the iPad when he’s the one doing the flying. I purposely “forgot” his iPad on our last trip and he said “I guess I’ll fly since I have nothing to do.” Gotta love the enthusiasm!

[jaylw314]

1 hour ago, ilovecornfields said:

I think it’s inevitable with kids these days. I was flying with my son and I said “Look there’s Mt. Shasta just off the wing!” He looked up from his iPad for a second and said “That’s nice.”

At least he doesn’t use the iPad when he’s the one doing the flying. I purposely “forgot” his iPad on our last trip and he said “I guess I’ll fly since I have nothing to do.” Gotta love the enthusiasm!

Ouch.  Just...ouch  

The best are those days where you can see all every peak from Shasta to Rainier, it sort of boggles the mind...

[Ragsf15e]

8 hours ago, ilovecornfields said:

I think it’s inevitable with kids these days. I was flying with my son and I said “Look there’s Mt. Shasta just off the wing!” He looked up from his iPad for a second and said “That’s nice.”

At least he doesn’t use the iPad when he’s the one doing the flying. I purposely “forgot” his iPad on our last trip and he said “I guess I’ll fly since I have nothing to do.” Gotta love the enthusiasm!

I had a similar experience last summer when I went out of my way to fly over Mt St Helens… look guys, you can see down into a volcano and the top of the mountain is gone!  Son (still looking at kindle), “is there any lava?” Me, “no, but look, the mountain is blown up!” Son, “can You help me get Tom and Jerry on?”

[carusoam]

Way to go 201er!

I think @FlyingDude was interested in Alton Bay…

As were a few other people…

Thanks for posting the pic!

https://mooneyspace.com/search/?q="Alton bay"&quick=1&updated_after=any&sortby=relevancy

Best regards,

-a-

[carusoam]

Kids and Mooneys are perfect together…

They will never know how long it takes to drive to grandma’s house…

Or… how long it takes to fly there…

They will be asleep within minutes of the engine starting…. In either machine… 

 

Stopping to change diapers… doesn’t happen in a Mooney…. Mooneys are too fast to need to stop. 
 

Go Mooney!

-a-

[steingar]

On 2/22/2022 at 1:25 PM, Hank said:

The only thing worse than sitting in the cockpit for eight hours would be doing so with an infant in the back seat . . . . .

Dunno, the airplane'd drown 'em out pretty good.