On Nov 23, 3:53*pm, a wrote:

A final not-in-the-book technique is to carry a bit of a slip down the
center line -- much easier if there's a cross wind -- but the Mooney,
normally a very clean airplane, turns into a pig when flown a bit
sideways.

I actually considered this slip method and probably would have tried
it had I had some time for a third or fourth approach. I can get
outstanding sink rate with my Sundowner slipping, just seems it's all
or nothing. Either it doesn't want to stop flying (as in the video)
or drops like a man hole cover.

Looking at the raw video, on my taxi back to 13, I counted 7 white
centerline stripes of which 5 were before the taxiway turnoff. Maybe
somebody can calculate the actual distance it took me to do a 180 in
the middle of the 7th stripe? http://www.airnav.com/airport/M23 has a
good picture of the airport and 13 is the left side of the airport
where I landed.

Second landing took longer to stop but I landed pretty close to where
the first landing was.

For me.....

It's finding that happy medium with power adjustments for me. Nose
probably like your Mooney points down with flaps deployed so balancing
that heavy nose with my stabilator at slow speeds gets rather dicey as
when I get behind the power curve, I start losing that stabilator
authority.. Not sure about Mooneys, but I am very forward CG so when
I deploy flaps, my ASI actually will increase slightly due to the
pitch down movement until drag kicks in..

I agree 2700 really not short but it's short relative to this pilots
experience. :-) and even in the video, I had it stopped well within
2000 feet (or less). I just need much more practice around trees!

Never thought of depends as a preflight checklist! I should add it LOL