Flying Slow

[skykrawler]

 

[Flyler]

Great video, thanks for posting.  There's something extra comforting about Janice making the videos from the right seat.  Gives that "instructor" feel.

[PT20J]

This is a terrific video on actually landing a Mooney. Besides speed control, the main problem I see with some pilot’s landings is they pull the power to idle (usually a little too high and too fast) and then wrestling the plane to the ground with the elevators alone. There are really four controls that need to be coordinated for a good landing: elevator, ailerons, rudder, and throttle.

Also, she doesn’t get a lot of pitch up on the go arounds because she goes to takeoff flaps immediately after adding power and before climbing out of ground effect. 

It’s really a great demonstration of control of the airplane to make it do exactly what she wants it to do. 

[dkkim73]

I love this video. I can't believe I haven't come across this instructor before. She's so technically-specific, clearly-spoken, and artful in the flying. 
Big bonus that this translates exactly to my airplane. Inertia, speeds, etc. Also just watching the dynamics. I've wondered if I'm "working" the controls too much (a la C-172 and taildraggers), but I see she does the same to respond to the gusts and to "feel" the dynamics of the airplane. The prelude with the discussion of stability seems odd at first, but is totally on-point. 

Some of the ground-effect work reminds me of Don's comments on the importance of certain drills in building comfort with soft-field and crosswind landings. 

Thank you for sharing! Big help for long body newbies like me.

 

[skykrawler]

These seem to be new videos (weeks old) from a 'startup' YouTube channel.   Deserves some thumbs up and subscribers.

 

https://www.youtube.com/@winginit-mooney

 

[NickG]

Yes, her videos are excellent! I was going to post them here but @skykrawlerbeat me to it ! Great videos! Wish I had her math skills (and technical prowess),

[Bentonck]

Very good video!

[Will.iam]

18 hours ago, PT20J said:

This is a terrific video on actually landing a Mooney. Besides speed control, the main problem I see with some pilot’s landings is they pull the power to idle (usually a little too high and too fast) and then wrestling the plane to the ground with the elevators alone. There are really four controls that need to be coordinated for a good landing: elevator, ailerons, rudder, and throttle.

Also, she doesn’t get a lot of pitch up on the go arounds because she goes to takeoff flaps immediately after adding power and before climbing out of ground effect. 

It’s really a great demonstration of control of the airplane to make it do exactly what she wants it to do. 

That is the nice thing about later model mooneys is the fact you can set for 10 degrees of flaps and they will retract to that setting and stop where as my flap button i have to manually stop it at an estimated 10 degrees and trying to focus on that is too much attention taken away from the other flying duties. So i just go around by increasing power and trimming the aircraft for that increase in power alone. There is more than enough power even with the gear and flaps out to climb. While climbing i retract the gear and by the time I’m trimmed with enough down trim i have to start pulling on the yoke to keep the nose from dropping i start raising the flaps. I’m a couple of hundred feet up in the air by this time and as the flaps come up it washes out the trimming nose down I’m still doing to being equal by the tine the flaps are up. Then i only need to trim as i continue to accelerate which the trim motor or manually trimming i can keep up with to avoid excessive yoke pressures i get if i try to retract the flaps first right after the throttle input.