Landing a Mooney

I generally take 5 knots off everything in my Mooney when I'm light.


I can't remember the numbers on my C model mooney but I would fly the airplane
down the runway to bleed off airspeed and about 5 mph before stall I would
retract the flaps.

This sounds scary but if you do it a few times on long, wide runways it will
become second nature. This and few other things is what makes flying fun.

(WARREN1157) wrote in message ...
I generally take 5 knots off everything in my Mooney when I'm light.


I can't remember the numbers on my C model mooney but I would fly the airplane
down the runway to bleed off airspeed and about 5 mph before stall I would
retract the flaps.

I've discovered this one way to land a small plane in gusty
conditions. Instead of bouncing around in the gusts a few feet or
inches over the runway, let off the flaps. Flare as normal of course,
and the plane will set down very nicely. It's faster till the plane's
weight gets on the wheels this way.

However, I've never seen this taught anywhere. Comments?

-Malcolm Teas

However, I've never seen this taught anywhere. Comments?

There are a lot of these tricks that are not taught, don't know why but it
would be nice if people would share some of these such as landings like these.

The latest that I have used is that I brought my Aero Commander in by using
the primer when the mixture cable broke at the adjustment screw. Just keep
pumping the primer until the engine goes back to running. I imangine the primer
hase many other applications for fuel starvation besides these.