Five Landing Mishaps In Last 8 Days On FAA ASIAS

[1980Mooney]

https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:93:::NO:::

Three gearups:

• M20F at PAWTUCKET, RI.
• M20C at ROCHESTER, NY.
• M20J at SHERMAN, TX (doing Touch and Go's)

One mismanaged landing bounced off runway:

• M20K at WAUKESHA, WI.

One mismanaged landing and go around into trees:

• M20K at FAIRMONT, WV.

[hammdo]

Sherman - wow, flew in there a lot

-Don

 

[Shadrach]

On 9/3/2024 at 6:34 PM, 1980Mooney said:

https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:93:::NO:::

Three gearups:

• M20F at PAWTUCKET, RI.
• M20C at ROCHESTER, NY.
• M20J at SHERMAN, TX (doing Touch and Go's)

One mismanaged landing bounced off runway:

• M20K at WAUKESHA, WI.

One mismanaged landing and go around into trees:

• M20K at FAIRMONT, WV.

Setting aside the pathetic gear up numbers, Speed kills…and as a group we are really adept at converting excess energy into bent aluminum.

[SKI]

I'm new to flying Mooney's so certainly no expert but airspeed is the most important thing for landing any airplane. Too much or too little and you're going to have a bad day. I got my PPL at a 2800' strip so I always pay extra attention to airspeed. My PPL CFI would start saying " Airspeed. Runway " Over and Over once abeam the numbers until touchdown. It still goes through my head now over and over. Everyone makes mistakes and I'm certainly not perfect. I hangar my J at a 5500' strip and one evening I wanted to see what happened if I came over the numbers at 85 Kts. I was shocked at how long it floated. Definitely gave me more incentive to make sure to be on speed.

[1980Mooney]

On 9/5/2024 at 12:49 PM, SKI said:

I'm new to flying Mooney's so certainly no expert but airspeed is the most important thing for landing any airplane. Too much or too little and you're going to have a bad day. I got my PPL at a 2800' strip so I always pay extra attention to airspeed. My PPL CFI would start saying " Airspeed. Runway " Over and Over once abeam the numbers until touchdown. It still goes through my head now over and over. Everyone makes mistakes and I'm certainly not perfect. I hangar my J at a 5500' strip and one evening I wanted to see what happened if I came over the numbers at 85 Kts. I was shocked at how long it floated. Definitely gave me more incentive to make sure to be on speed.

Also since you are new to Mooney, not sure your total experience, but if you have not flown any long cross country trips, there other things than can throw you off your landing and give you a "bad day". Fatigue - noise, vibration, lack of oxygen, even lack of bathroom breaks. The M20F that geared-up in Rhode Island was at the end of a 4 hour 40 minute trip that varied between 14,000 to about 9,000 ft. 

Even if you are young and healthy and flying befow 12,000 ft, you may find that supplemental oxygen keeps you mentally sharper.