High or low wing?

The solution (for anyone interested) is either (a) add some power in the
flare to keep the nose up, or (b) keep your approach speed right to the
flare, rather than beginning a gradual roundout higher up like you would in
a 172.

I wonder if you're noticing the different ground-effect behaviour with the
Mooney not because the wings are low, but because the Mooney is such an
amazingly clean plane. I personally lust after a Mooney 201, which would
give me 165 ktas burning only a couple of GPH more than my Warrior at 126
ktas.

David, I think I'm tuned into the ground effect so much because I fly the M20J
150 hours a year or so. If you carry too much airspeed into the flare, you're
in for a long, long settling time, and the chances are you'll not hear the
stall warning before the mains touch.

Lots of Mooney pilots, when in the flare, retract the flaps. that helps the
airplane stop flying sooner (and the trailing edge of the flaps are really
close to the ground, which makes ground effect issues become GROUND EFFECT
issues).

The other thing is, what one does when landing is try to burn off the energy
the airplane has, and clarn airplanes don't lose energy very quickly. Again,
that's an argument for managing airspeed carefully.