Flying a Mooney M20R Ovation From Texas to Colorado

We recently did a trip down to Texas and back.
Enjoy some of the flying shots from our route home from Texas H81 - Colorado KBJC

#aviation #aircraft #pilotlife

[alanwelch]

Lucky man, beautiful airplane and beautiful girl.

[theAreaMan]

Chance sighting of one of the two airworthy B-29s in the world? Kickass. Looks like she was scooting, too.

[dfinneman]

Beautiful Video and bird with a talented pilot. Keep them coming.

[aldohattonduran]

These are my favorites.. of cross country in the Mooney 🛩️💪🏼🥇🇺🇸 excellent brother 🙌🏼

[richdubeau]

This is just the coolest thing. I’m a student pilot with about 25 hours under my belt (lol). My dream is to own a plane like this. I’m sure it will never happen but it’s awesome to just watch your videos. Great job

[ronaldvanengen]

How about Pueblo to Provo Utah❤🎉😊
Or KAPA to KMKC
Centennial to Charles Wheeler Downtown KC!!❤🎉😊
Love the channel 🎉

[RusscanFLY]

Those Moonies are definitely nothing to play with! 179 kn over the ground with a little bit of a headwind! That’s impressive! Definitely a get there machine for sure. Fly well!

[donjohnston]

It would be great to see somebody buy Mooney and get it going again. It would be neat to see these planes with Continental TD engine.

[dmzamzow]

I learned to fly at KBJC back in 1972, when it was still called Jeffco. The tower was where the terminal is now. Fun days in Cessna 150s!

[boogerwood]

Great vid. Curious though why you don’t fly standard altitudes? Also, was that ForeFlight with the “check gear” warning?

[JerryWitt-nz]

why didnt you land at tradewinds in amarillo?

[NickGeber]

Just flew my Ovation 3 from Las Vegas to Amarillo and back a couple of weeks ago. Then a week later from Vegas to Houston and back. Incredible birds. Try 20 LOP next time. I was 174TAS at about 11.4 gph at 11k. BTW museum at AMA is very small. Coolest thing they had other than the DC3 was the Shuttle simulator Gulfstream.

[thomasmixson]

Amarillo by morning. Born there in '49...lived high on the caprock about 30 miles NE. Thoughts? Route 66, 1955, alive & kicking running through town amidst a sea of NEON signs & hundreds of tourist courts & motels. Cool summer mornings awakening to open second story windows & a view of tall, wavy seas of wheat covering hundreds of acres. Jack rabbits 3 feet tall. Brand new Bell Helicopters for Viet Nam being flight tested from Amarillo's airport, & B-52s shooting touch & goes. Weather? ...well, it's hard to describe the approach of a thunderstorm nearing a 100, 000 ft tall racing down from the north over caprock and down upon you. I've seen it go from clear & warm to raining mud, & then freezing winds & snow....all in one morning. There's a poker game there where literal fortunes are won or lost in a single pot. Think, " I'll raise ya my ranch near Austin and two helicopters!" type of bets

[leodanryan]

10:00 I believe you are passing Palo Duro Canyon.

[OmarKnowsEverything]

Please don’t make shallow descent like that. Make your decents at -500 to
- 700 fpm. This will make your flight path more predictable to others. This is what everyone else (other traffic and ATC) expects from you. Spend more time at a given altitude and less time transitioning from an altitude to another. Thank you. Cool video btw.

[curtcoltharp]

I lost a spinner on my Bellanca at Amarillo once enroute from Abilene to Denver and declared my first and only emergency. I learned that when ATC asks for number of souls on board, that equates to how many ambulances to order because when I landed, there were two waiting.

[gilguzman]

You rarely see David-Clark headphones anymore.

[pirateatfourty]

yawn your slow lol i will drag race you in my p337 i cruise at 260 kts but i also have twin 300hp engines and 3 bladed props and am pressurized.i have to go to gatlin tn on monday to pick her up new paint more mods. i live in washington state. had a/c installed finally after 25 years. but i am usually up around 17000 ft / but tha tis a good looking mooney for a mooney lol my dog can beat up your dog lol as long as you dont try to eat her. mooney pilots also eat cats and dogs lol