How Do You Size Up (Poll)

[201er]

Are you the FAA standard adult? Are Mooney pilots stereotypically tall and thin? Or are they just a bunch of gross weight @Marauder flying ballasts? 
 

Do you need rudder pedal extensions? In a short body!? Did you need to drill additional seat rail holes? Or your head pressed into the low ceiling? Ok spill the beans.

[EricJ]

Trolling metrics for security penetration?

 

[ArtVandelay]

What’s the standard?

[Amelia]

3 hours ago, 201er said:

Are you the FAA standard adult? Are Mooney pilots stereotypically tall and thin? Or are they just a bunch of gross weight @Marauder flying ballasts? 
 

Do you need rudder pedal extensions? In a short body!? Did you need to drill additional seat rail holes? Or your head pressed into the low ceiling? Ok spill the beans.

Ahem. This short-body lady does not wish to disclose her weight. Suffice it to say, I’m, ah,  concentrated, and glad to have 3” rudder pedal extensions in a long-body Mooney. But with my 20S, weight isn’t a problem! 

Edited July 21, 2022 by Amelia

[Guest]

I’m guessing a good number of respondents will be as optimistic about their weight as they are about their airplanes performance!

Clarence

[DonMuncy]

I am 5' 8" and relatively slender. My plane came to me with 1 1/2 pedal extensions and my hangar elf converted them to 3 ". It makes a lot of difference.

[Hank]

I fit well into my C, no extensions. At 6' even in tennis shoes, I've never hit the ceiling. But my 5'3" wife has . . . .      

[Mooneymite]

If you want to fly a Mooney Mite, you can be tall, but not fat!  

I'm guessing a "few" are being flown illegally gross weight-wise.  A helium diet may help.  

[Yetti]

I laugh at your diminutive poll.

[Schllc]

My preference is a long body with no rudder extensions. 

[Danb]

What’s the standard or the Mooney standard,  we’re all 5’10”,  150

[midlifeflyer]

I used to be 5'10. One day I went to my AME. He told me get in one of those things that measure height. I'm facing away from the ruler.

"How tall are you?" he asked. "5-10," I replied . He shook his head sadly. "Not anymore."

[EricJ]

4 minutes ago, midlifeflyer said:

I used to be 5'10. One day I went to my AME. He told me get in one of those things that measure height. I'm facing away from the ruler.

"How tall are you?" he asked. "5-10," I replied . He shook his head sadly. "Not anymore."

When my stepson was a teenager we used to mark our heights, for both of us, on a door jamb like many people do.   As he was getting much, much taller, I was getting shorter.   He passed me and kept going.  I lost about an inch and a half over only a few years.

[BobbyH]

On 7/21/2022 at 6:11 PM, EricJ said:

I lost about an inch and a half over only a few years.

Hate it when that happens!

[201er]

Talk about shrinking pilot population.

[Jerry 5TJ]

On 7/21/2022 at 5:46 PM, M20Doc said:

I’m guessing a good number of respondents will be as optimistic about their weight as they are about their airplanes performance!

I'm 6'2", fit and trim, and my C model cruises at 180 KTAS on 7 GPH.  

[carusoam]

Sitting height is everything!

Too tall while sitting, the adjustable seats go all the way down…

 

-a-

[A64Pilot]

On 7/21/2022 at 9:04 PM, midlifeflyer said:

I used to be 5'10. One day I went to my AME. He told me get in one of those things that measure height. I'm facing away from the ruler.

"How tall are you?" he asked. "5-10," I replied . He shook his head sadly. "Not anymore."

I think I may be 5’10” again, my knees were shot and the wear makes you a little bow legged like an old cowboy, but my new titanium and plastic ones have my legs straight again.

But then there is the spine compression thing going on too.