What was your shortest flight?

[Pinecone]

8 hours ago, EricJ said:

Would taking off on a long runway in a C150, doing a little slow flight down the runway, and then landing count? 

I did 5 take offs and landings to a full stop in one pass down the runway in a Citabria.

SAC base aero club airplane.  So 11,700 foot runway.

[MikeOH]

5 hours ago, GeeBee said:

Here is a bonus question. If you are at an uncontrolled field, 2 miles from a towered airport with Class D airspace and it is reporting 1/2 mile visibility but the uncontrolled field has 3 miles, do you need an IFR clearance? Do you need to talk to the tower?

That’s TWO questions!

No

Yes (as soon as practicable after departure)

[Will.iam]

Well we did figure 8’s landing on the runway both directions in a tanker a modified B707 when the winds were less than 5 mph. My record was 33 landings in 4.5 hours getting landing currency done. 

[RLCarter]

Couple hundred feet in my E, was a high speed taxi with a little too much nose up trim and gusty headwinds…….ooppppps

[Canadian Gal]

It wasn't in a Mooney, but 1.2 nm from my dock to a friends dock in my 185. Estimated altitude 10'.

[aviatoreb]

Do touch and goes count?

How about straight ahead touch and goes - at KPBG a nice 12000 ft runway from the B52 bomber era you can do a few touch and goes straight ahead?

If so I would say my shortest flight is a few hundred feet.

Or if a bounced landing counts - I would say a few dozen feet is my shortest flight.

I went to Kitty Hawk and they have markers out for that first, and very famous, and very short, flight.

[Pinecone]

54 minutes ago, aviatoreb said:

Do touch and goes count?

How about straight ahead touch and goes - at KPBG a nice 12000 ft runway from the B52 bomber era you can do a few touch and goes straight ahead?

If so I would say my shortest flight is a few hundred feet.

Or if a bounced landing counts - I would say a few dozen feet is my shortest flight.

I went to Kitty Hawk and they have markers out for that first, and very famous, and very short, flight.

I already mentioned that. 

I did 5 to a full stop, climb to 50 feet for each, on one pass down the runway.

[carusoam]

Departed with 180hp, lost a cylinder before TPA…

Landed on the nearest cross runway….

A very brief, exciting, and eventful flight… 

Go bullet proof M20C’s O360!

Best regards,

-a-

[ohdub]

I think my shortest flight was KFFA-KMQI. 6NM.

[Pinecone]

8 hours ago, carusoam said:

Departed with 180hp, lost a cylinder before TPA…

Landed on the nearest cross runway….

A very brief, exciting, and eventful flight… 

Go bullet proof M20C’s O360!

Best regards,

-a-

I almost had a similar short flight.  And, of call places, at First Flight.

We had stopped to see the site and museum.  Club C-172.   About 100 feet or so, had what I suspect was a stuck valve.   Had enough power to slightly climb, so started a pattern to land.  After about 90 degrees of turn, engine started making full power.

So I circled over the field, climbing, until I had more than enough glide range to the next airfield and maintained glide to an airport back to KGAI (home base for the plane).

[A64Pilot]

On 1/2/2023 at 8:58 PM, N201MKTurbo said:

One lap around the pattern.

it’s hard to beat that.

I’ve got thousands shorter.

Tracking and balancing a helicopter. Pull to a hover for 15 sec or so to take a reading, land, shut down and make a PC link adjustment, repeat until track is good, then start the flying part.

[N201MKTurbo]

37 minutes ago, A64Pilot said:

I’ve got thousands shorter.

Tracking and balancing a helicopter. Pull to a hover for 15 sec or so to take a reading, land, shut down and make a PC link adjustment, repeat until track is good, then start the flying part.

But this is MooneySpace, not ApacheSpace...