Crossing the USA in a Mooney M20J. Part 1 of 2: Westbound
2019 ж. 18 Қаң.
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My Dad and I took off on a seven day adventure, 36 flight hours flying round trip across the USA, ocean to ocean.
Part 2: Eastbound can be found at • Crossing the USA in a ...
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More about the plane: mooneyspace.com/topic/22154-b...
Even two years later... still my favorite Mooney father son video... and the plane? She is one of the finest in the sky!!
20 seconds in and I am hooked. Sucker for father/son adventures. Mine wasn’t around much and I worked all the weekends of my sons young years.
Beautiful aircraft! You'll cherish this trip with your pop forever.
That glass instrument panel looks perfect for your Mooney. Great update for a great solidly designed aircraft.
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I wanted to tell you I really like you Dad. He teaches, and complements you very well. What an amazing trip, thank for sharing it!
Finest plane ever built for long distance economical travelling
"We're a team!" Love it. A few other angles I wouldn't have minded seeing, but overall a really enjoyable vid.
This is an amazing journey and video! I just purchased a Mooney M20J and absolutely love it. I started a KZhead channel to document my cross-country flights to repossess vehicles.
Beautiful flight both ways. Priceless father-and-son adventure. I fly a Mooney M20C but our roles are reversed, I fly and my son co-pilots. I see you're NYPD. I'm a retired Police Officer in CA. Thank you for your service. Fly safe.
Thanks for the nice comments, but I cannot take the thanks for my service. A NYPD Aviation Lt. gave me the shirt. We did some paint work on their heli. We have donated work to local law enforcement though!
The first time I seen California I was literally stund! I stood on the golden gate Bridge and couldn't believe how beautiful it was!! Unbelievable
So valuable moments to have with ur dad! Looks like an awesome plane the Mooney
Wow! What a Mooney!.. Thanks for posting this with your Dad... I'm right up in Pottstown and living vicariously through your flight!
awesome flight great memories
Outstanding video, my only gripe is the loud shutter clicks from the cell phone camera.
Coast to coast in a Mooney…that‘s really a great adventure! Thanks a lot for the video. I really enjoyed it!
I flew my M20J from Toronto to Santa Fe last year solo, it was an amazing experience. Highly recommend two pilots, sharing responsibilities is a lot less taxing.
Reminded of how great my two Mooneys were. A Mark 21 and Statesman. Not the roomiest, but the ride made up for it.
I really enjoyed that.. as a newbie flying student this was great to see. Lovely Mooney too. Thanks for posting it.✈
You are blessed with a Super Co-Pilot and Navigator. Fabulous Trip! Thanks for sharing.
Great stuff Dan! What a memory producing trip with your dad.
Many likes guys!!!! Beautiful video. Kudos
Cool trip and great camera positioning! Thanks for taking us along on it 👍
Thanks for the reply. What a great panel and my dream airplane. I’m a71 year old rusty pilot just getting back to flying, but I love the new glass panels. Safe flying and Blue skies
Stunning scenery past Rapid City and over the Rockies. Nice maneuvering in the valleys and below the cloud cover. Amazing trip. Thanks.
awesome trip! And beautiful Mooney!
Way cool. I lived in Sandpoint some years ago working on an aircraft program.
Thanks for This!! Cheers, from Vancouver Canada...
Nice trip and thanks for sharing. Landed last week for breakfast at your base KMQS from N51. Enjoyed the wisdom and commentaries your dad shared very much.
Beautiful scenery a trip you or your pops will never forget
Very nice mooney! Looking forward to get one of my own one day.
I've flown in a M20C but never cross country. Thanks for sharing your adventure. Look forward to more. Fly safe.
That will be a trip of mine for the future. I love my M20C. Thanks for sharing!
PilotFun101 please tell me what kind of cruise speed you get and what GPH. Thank you
I enjoyed the whole vlog. Very nice.
I’m loving your glass upgrade. Porsche 911 of the sky
Wow what a cockpit!
So incredibly impressed with your 'refurb'. Actually, my wife walked by and said "Your mouth is hanging open- what are you watching?" I was somewhere around Bozeman- still in awe with N205J. 32 years old, yet, as sweet as a 2016 Ultra or Ovation. I honestly did NOT think any plane could be refurbed to current spec. that well. INCREDIBLE WORK Side Note: I love that you and your dad take this complex aircraft and fly it manually over the Rockies. So nice that you enjoy the mountain flying, deviate for fun and the plane helps instead of pure VFR.
Had a few flights with my dad in 177 RG not a great ending happy to see this trip be the experience it was meant to be Thanks for sharing
Great trip to share with your dad. Really cool. Camera click sounds were ear splitting, though.
Left me ears bleeding!
Nice adventure and how lucky u r to make the trip together with ur Dad !! Awesome this once in a lifetime Trip and B Safe !!
Cool vid! I'm training on a Piper Warrior. It's tail number ends in 04J. We always say "oh for juliet". Pretty cool how close they are. Nice stuff!
This is good insight for me since I'm looking at buying one of these and seeing how they kind of go cross country
Awesome video. Wish I can do this with my dad someday
Love that landing!!!
Wow, just wow. What a Mooney !! What my pops would of done to have instrumentation like that. He flew a 67’ Executive 21, steam gauges thru out. If I recall his biggest trip was Wichita to New York, NY and once out to Vegas. I started flying with him in 55’ and haven’t been up since he quit flying in the 90’s. Started with a Tri-Pacer and ended with a Tri-Pacer with 2 Mooneys in between. Only friend I know as a pilot, is a High School bud with a Stearman. Now that would be an interesting ride. 😎
Priceless Dad's will be Dad's
Hello from Wyoming. Can't wait to see the trip back. I currently live in Cheyenne. Your trip down 90 and over Gillette had a lot of smoke. I remember those fires.
One of our overnights on the way back is Cheyenne. So the next video will have a takeoff and landing there. Cheyenne was the highest altitude max gross takeoff we had. Takeoff roll was longest of the trip.
Great thanks a lot. I fly the M20R also a great AC
Very Cool! Nice Mooney!
I flew your jpi930 in the mooney yesterday. Absolutely love it. I'll have to shoot you an email of the new panel I finally got done after 4 months of pain
Nice Mooney!
Nice video great places
flew my M20J from Toronto to Santa Fe last year solo, it was an amazing experience. Highly recommend two pilots, sharing responsibilities is a lot less taxing.2
I loved traveling with you on this trip. Let me know when I can go on another. Dan
If you want to watch less video, Skip to 14:53 to get to the mountain parts of the flight which is more interesting than the flights getting there. I just put in the flights getting there for completeness.
Naw - it's ALL good ....
Great video but I’d recommend losing the picture taking sound effect. Thanks for posting!
I am a student pilot and wish I could land once like you Rmag. 150+ landings and counting, not one like yours.
You flew over my home town! I grew up in Missoula. I'm getting my PPL in Seattle right now, and plan on making many flights to Montana in the future. How was the flying in MT?
That,s a nice mooney. Hey that oil burn, if you are topping off is it blowing out on the belly??? Some guys run a quart low as sop to keep the belly clean.
Special trip with your dad. Beautiful route and well flown. Are you instrument rated? Your Mooney is well-equipped and very nice. Thanks for the enjoyable video. Great camera work, sound and scenery. Fly safe.
Just curious if you have an instrument rating? Lots of great memories with your dad.
Greased the landing in Rapid City
What is the filter that you are putting in front of iPhone camera to get nice clear pictures? Looks like it may cancel out the prop? Great video. Life time memories.
It’s called a Neutral Density Filter or “ND Filter”
Tribute to your trip, i'm gonna do the same on MSFS with the carenado M20R. More Oldschool than your Mooney, but beautiful Aircraft too!
I am doing the same with my X-plane11 , How do you like MSFS?
Any chance for a flight plan of that route? I would love to try it out sometime in the sim.
Beautiful mooney. Who did the new panel ¿.
WWW.SUREFLIGHT.COM
What's the filter you use on the cell phone?
Great video. Love your avionics. What year is your 201?
It’s a 1987 205 SE. Which is a modified 201. See the link in the description for more detail.
Dads’s a bit of a codger on the radios 😂 fun trip though!
Did you need to file IFR during any legs of the flight?
What is your glass panel gear? Big MFD in front and smaller to the right? Thanks in advance
More about the plane: mooneyspace.com/topic/22154-better-than-new-the-full-refurbishment-of-n205j/
Ohhh I want to do this
What all is in that panel? it looks great
Garmin G500 TXi with integrated Engine Information System (EIS). Garmin GAD 43e autopilot interface for G500 TXi Garmin GTN 750 GPS/Nav/Comm Navigator with Telligence Voice Control Garmin GMA 35c Bluetooth enabled remote audio panel Garmin GTX 345R ADS-B In/Out remote transponder Garmin GNC 255 Nav/Comm King KFC-150 autopilot (the only thing that remained from the old panel) L3 Avionics ESI-500 Standby Instrument with: Altitude, Attitude, Slip/skid, Vertical speed, Aircraft track, Synthetic Vision option, Navigation option. Magnetic heading option. AirGizmos iPad Mini 4 panel dock Nimbus Aviation Electroluminescent Circuit Breaker overlay. ACK E-04 GPS Emergency Locator Transmitter Guardian Aero 451-101 Panel Mount CO Detector MidContinent MD93 Digital Clock/USB Charger.
What year is your Mooney I’ve been looking at a m20j and I like your avionics upgrade
1987
You got a nice J! Do you' have a power flow exhaust or gami injectors? Whats your true airspeed like? I've a 83J as well and im fairly new to it. what do you typically have your RPM set to at full Manifold? Thanks
No power flow, yes Gami’s. 160 kts true at altitude 50° ROP I cruise 24” at 2400 rpm. Full takeoff power is 2700 rpm.
Thanks, what improvement did you get from Gami ? My mechanic said, you dont need it on my io360
Honestly I don’t know. When I did the Avionics that has the Engine Info System, I decided to just do it figuring it would be more precise. I didn’t own it long enough or have the precision prior to the upgrade to compare.
I see.. Thank you. Have you though about putting a power flow on your Mooney? Some say it wouldn't change much on a J, but on the C or F Mooney it does alot!
What did it cost? Did you add the glass instruments and how much $$$?
Yes we did the panel. About $100k
Fun!😅
Why do Mooneys seem to have a more comfortable interior sound than the other videos on youtube?
For my videos it’s editing. The primary audio track is the headsets. Then I overlay the engine sound in the background at a reduced audio level.
@@RMAG I think you'll agree that your engine sounds very nice. It just purrrs.
Donut as part of survival kit?
Do you wear sunscreen or do the windows in the cockpit block UV rays?
There is UV and thermal reduction in the windows, I don’t believe I ever have worn sunscreen in the plane unless I already had it on. I don’t think I’ve ever worn sunscreen in my car either if I am at driving with the windows up in the air condition.
How has the fuel indication been performing?
Flawlessly and accurately.
The Acclaim can do it in half a day, just set it at 20k feet and hit the gas in a bee line
Did you refurbish the airplane? Avionics paint interior
Yes. mooneyspace.com/topic/22154-better-than-new-the-full-refurbishment-of-n205j/?tab=comments#comment-344775
So....., that's an hour and nine minutes, son? No Dad! A few minutes longer in my plane, 3 hrs, 45 minutes.
in this age kids can get very useful :D
3:24 I did a double take thinking you said 19 gallons an hour.
Cruise speed?
160 kts true
Rmag. Hi there. Is there anyway that I can chat with you off line??? I'm a Mooney M20K owner with an avionics issue and I was wondering if I could get some assistance from a Garmin PRO.
Hi -- I enjoyed the video. Did you give any consideration to taking along portable OX? Why not? Thanks!
Considered it but left it due to weight restrictions. Contemplating if we had to do a hot, high altitude full fuel takeoff. Although we planned conservative airports with long runways.
Beautiful scenery. Next time, point a few things out. How can you not point out Mt. St. Helens? Show a little enthusiasm and it would be much more interesting.
Because I did not film this with KZhead viewers in mind, I filmed it for my Dad and my posterity. Sharing with KZhead was an afterthought.
Because he's not national geographic. It appears to be a.video for themselves, not everyone else's entertainment. ;)
My goal is to "Circumnavigate" the US Border (the lower 48 states) and have the video cameras running the whole time! But "low and slow" with a J-3 or maybe a PA-11 ! Won't that be the "Scenic Flight" of a lifetime?
Nice airplane. Dad's radio skills are pretty sloppy.
He never introduced the plane..
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@@RMAG .. Walk around .. engine.. mods.. features.. Etc..
@@venusreena2532 here you go: mooneyspace.com/topic/22154-better-than-new-the-full-refurbishment-of-n205j/
Isn't 19 miles per gallon really bad in a small aircraft? I think he meant 19 gallons per hour
No 19 is right, it’s actually very efficient for an airplane. The GPH is approx 10 GPH depending on altitude, temp, and power settings.
@@RMAG okay I wasn't thinking math through very carefully lol. Thanks
I really enjoyed watching this video, and this is not meant to be criticism, but having flown this route probably 50 times over 27 years (and living in the PNW), others should not use your far west routing as an example of how to fly MT-ID-WA. You went way out of your way unnecessarily and I’m not really sure why. The clouds were pushing you down yet the tops didn’t look very high. Going high over the mountains is advisable for many reasons including gliding distance, smoother air and avoiding scud running risks. Since it was your first time. I get that you were fearful of the mountains, but if you fly high you can go direct just fine.
Because it was about the fun journey; not the destination. We have other aircraft that fly high that are much faster if we needed to get there quickly. See 57:20
Maybe they wanted the fun of the journey and not the speed to destination. It's like taking old Rt66 instead of I40. For a one time fun trip I would do what they did.
What if u gotta drop a duce? Or take a piss
We have a Little John Pilot Urinal jug to pee in. If you have to poop, you do it when you land.
I think your camera equipment is interfering with your flying. I think you could honestly lose a camera or two. Your cockpit is very, very busy
I agree wholeheartedly, especially that camera behind me that I can't even see. That one in particular often causes spontaneous complete loss of flight controls.
Rmag haha
@@RMAG Heh heh
I think that since you were not in the cockpit and have absolutely NO idea how busy it actually was... you could lose your silly comment. ;)