Pop-up IFR into Santa Maria KSMX - RNAV12

[Skates97]

In September I dropped the plane off at Art Craft in Santa Maria for painting. Arrival time was about 9:30am and the forecast was for clear skies by 10am, so there was a chance it would be broken up enough to arrive VFR. I departed KFUL VFR to do a little formation flying enroute with my friend. The marine layer had not broken up at all, solid from about 2,200' MSL down to 1,000' MSL. Picked up IFR enroute from Santa Barbara Approach and flew the RNAV 12 Approach into KSMX.

Full video from the request to touch down. Countdown timer shows flight time remaining. All coms between myself and ATC included, the video is sped up between coms.

 

[Rmfriday]

Cool video, thanks for sharing 

 

[MooneyMitch]

Thank you for sharing this video.  Brings back fun memories of my home drone.

Enjoy you beautiful new paint from Artcraft!!

[David Lloyd]

Skates, we need some pictures.

[Skates97]

Here's some pics, there will be a full review write up in the December edition of The Mooney Flyer.

[hammdo]

Nice and I see you have ITS on there! Can’t wait to hear the details and cost…

-Don

[MooneyMitch]

Wow!!! That’s a stellar looking Mooney!  I must say, a stellar performance from Artcraft…. 4 weeks from drop off to completion?  That might be one of the most efficient paint processes from them!! 

Early on during my Artcraft era, one Mooney (Ovation), brought into the shop was processed in 7 days!!!  True story. 

Your paint process might possibly be a another record setter for Artcraft!   
 

Congratulations Richard…….   Congratulations Artcraft!! Transformation complete!! Gorgeous!!!
 

Edit..Whoops, I stand corrected…. not 4 weeks, but still a fairly efficient time frame indeed