pacflyer7:
So just to be clear, no one here that has commented actually has ferried an aircraft in this configuration? Other than of course the indirect planning?
I'm sure pacflyer7's comment is not intended to be sarcastic, and so to be truthful yes, I have flown an identical Mooney in ferry configuration, but with 2 x 200L drums in the rear (rather than the ferry bag) and a smaller drum in the copilot seat position with the yoke removed.
So just to be clear, there really are some cowboys in the ferry business. One has his own thread in Pprune right here:
Robert Weaver.
Then there's another ferry pilot (also a CFI and part time swimmer) incapable of doing a 115% MTOW Mooney W+B, and when an opportunity to revise it was presented, still got it just as wrong but in different ways. Ppacflyer7 may even know him or her.