M20 Ogler Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 I’ve been asked to do this for my uncle. He was a pilot and a life long aviation enthusiast and this was one of his last wishes. Has anyone here ever done this with a Mooney? Maybe I should rent a Cessna instead? I was thinking while in 75 mph slow flight I could use the storm window to push a paper bag out. P.S. F*ck cancer
gabez Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 I think at that speed your uncle is going to end up on mostly your mooney...I think a Cessna would be a better choice
Tony Starke Posted July 19, 2023 Report Posted July 19, 2023 https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/may/pilot/technique-spreading-ashes
MisfitSELF Posted July 19, 2023 Report Posted July 19, 2023 I released rose pedals once from my little pilot window in my M20J. They mostly got sucked out but a couple got blown into the back seat. They mostly spattered on the horizontal tail leaving blood red stains. Luckily the stains rubbed out with a little bit of elbow geese and a wet rag. I'd go with the Cessna. 1
Fly Boomer Posted July 19, 2023 Report Posted July 19, 2023 4 hours ago, M20 Ogler said: Has anyone here ever done this with a Mooney? Maybe I should rent a Cessna instead? Use someone else's airplane. 1 2
N201MKTurbo Posted July 19, 2023 Report Posted July 19, 2023 Just get a two foot length of 1” vinyl tubing from the Home Depot. Stick it out the window and use it to vacuum up the ashes from the container. Go try with some rice mixed with flour for practice. if you are concerned about your paint, put some duct tape on the leading edge of your left elevator. 1
Mufflerbearing Posted July 19, 2023 Report Posted July 19, 2023 Search this topic. There are some incredible stories and different ideas. Most that didn't work and some that did. The hose idea seems to be the best idea.
ArtVandelay Posted July 19, 2023 Report Posted July 19, 2023 I assume you want to have some left rudder while using the pilot window to insure the airflow is outward?
201Steve Posted July 19, 2023 Report Posted July 19, 2023 Stick with the advice from those who’ve actually done this maneuver. As muffler b points out, lots of documentation here. Easiest way to find the thread is using google: Mooneyspace ashes high chance for a botched release if proven method not followed. It’s not the airplane it’s the releasing method. 1
Hank Posted July 19, 2023 Report Posted July 19, 2023 I've heard to put the cremains in a paper bag, and tie it to a piece of string long enough that when you toss the bag out the window, it will extend beyond the tail. You have to keep hold of your end, stopping the bag, which will then blow the cremains through the bottom of the bag without sandblasting your tail feathers. No experience with this, Arlington requires 100% of cremains to be interred.
cliffy Posted July 21, 2023 Report Posted July 21, 2023 Get a Cessna and use the lower rear corner of the pilots door as you keep it slightly open with your left knee at slow speed Helps to have someone else keep the wings level as you do it. . I've done it this way a couple times and it works. Don't even think of opening the side window and going out that way. Out the Mooney storm window is a disaster in the making Open the door in the Mooney and you'll be landing with an open door. I know of a try in a LearJet that put half the contents back inside the airplane :-(
BloodRedSkies Posted July 23, 2023 Report Posted July 23, 2023 Make a Beer bong with about 3 foot of tube. The bigger the diameter tube the better and a nice big funnel from an auto parts store. Tube out the pilot window, funnel will have suction and contents will be sucked out. Since tube is 3 feet behind the window nothing gets back in the cabin.
RobertGary1 Posted July 24, 2023 Report Posted July 24, 2023 Ashes are very fine but with chunks of bone. you'll want at least a 3 foot chute below the plane to drop them through. I've never seen someone try it on a low wing, not sure how you'd plumb it up.
RobertGary1 Posted July 24, 2023 Report Posted July 24, 2023 On 7/22/2023 at 5:09 PM, BloodRedSkies said: Make a Beer bong with about 3 foot of tube. The bigger the diameter tube the better and a nice big funnel from an auto parts store. Tube out the pilot window, funnel will have suction and contents will be sucked out. Since tube is 3 feet behind the window nothing gets back in the cabin. But you may loose a little paint. Not enough to bother a 5 foot paint job but enough to bother a nice one.
Will.iam Posted July 24, 2023 Report Posted July 24, 2023 Had a navigator hold up an urn up to the sextant port and suck out his father’s remains over the Atlantic Ocean. After landing crew chief pointed out the entire vertical fin and rudder had no paint! At 350kts it sandblasted the paint off quit well. 1
Will.iam Posted July 25, 2023 Report Posted July 25, 2023 24 minutes ago, M20Doc said: Oops! How did you explain it? I didn’t have to the captain did. I forget now what he said that was decades ago and the world worked differently then.
Bob E Posted July 25, 2023 Report Posted July 25, 2023 My brother and I scattered my dad's ashes from my Mooney at his request. They were in a metal container not unlike a large loose tea box. We slow-flighted over the designated wilderness area, opened the cabin door (which is possible to open about 6" in slow flight), and he held the container out past the door with both hands, and opened it. The contents disappeared in a second or two. We dropped the metal container out as well. (Yes, I know.) It was easy but sad and poignant.
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