# Beechcraft J35 Bonanza — bonanza_j35check

> **NOT FOR FLIGHT** — source fidelity: unreviewed | operational review: none | completeness: full

> **content_gap**: Section "EMERGENCY Gear Up Landing" item count differs between passes (9 vs 6); verify nothing was dropped.

## Preflight

**Interior**
- [ ] Mags — **Off**
- [ ] Cowl flaps — **Open**
- [ ] Fuel selector — **Left tank**
- [ ] Gust lock — **Remove**
- [ ] Landing gear switch — **Down**
- [ ] Master switch — **On**
- [ ] Fuel gages — **Check quantity**
- [ ] Flaps — **Down**
- [ ] Master switch — **Off**
- [ ] Aircraft documents — **ARROW**
- [ ] Weight and balance — **Review**
- [ ] Flashlights/equipment — **Check**
**Exterior**
- [ ] Empennage — **Check security, movement, trim tab security/cable attachment free play**
- [ ] Tail tiedown — **Remove**
- [ ] Right static port — **Check unobstructed**
- [ ] Underside — **Check condition, antennas**
- [ ] Right flap — **Check for damage, security**
- [ ] Right aileron — **Check for damage, security, movement**
- [ ] Right wing — **Check for damage**
- [ ] Right tiedown — **Remove**
- [ ] Right gear — **Check strut (2 inches showing), uplock roller, brakes, and tire (30 psi)**
- [ ] Right fuel tanks
**Preflight (cont’d)**
- [ ] Right cowl — **Check secure**
- [ ] Cowl plugs — **Remove**
- [ ] Propeller and spinner — **Check condition**
- [ ] Engine air inlet — **Check unobstructed**
- [ ] Left cowl — **Open**
- [ ] Alternator belt — **Check tension**
- [ ] Oil level — **Check (9 quarts max. 8 quarts min.)**
- [ ] Oil filler cap — **Check secure**
- [ ] Left cowl — **Close**
- [ ] Fuel selector drain — **Check sump**
- [ ] Left wing — **Check for damage**
- [ ] Left fuel tanks — **Check quantity, vents, sump**
- [ ] Left gear — **.Check strut (2 inches showing), uplock roller, brakes, and tire (30 psi)**
- [ ] Pitot tube — **Remove cover. Check for obstructions**
- [ ] Stall warning switch — **Check movement, operation**
- [ ] Navigation lights (night flight) — **Check**
- [ ] Left tiedown — **Remove**
- [ ] Left aileron — **Check for damage, security, movement**
- [ ] Left flap — **Check for damage, security**
- [ ] Left static port — **Check unobstructed**

## Starting Engine

**Cold**
- [ ] Brakes — **Set**
- [ ] Landing gear switch — **DOWN**
- [ ] Circuit breakers — **Check**
- [ ] Fuel — **Desired tank (Left?, NEVER Aux)**
- [ ] Prop — **Full increase**
- [ ] Mixture — **Rich**
- [ ] Throttle — **Open 2 turns**
- [ ] Master switch — **ON**
- [ ] Fuel pump — **LOW, wait until indication on fuel flow meter, then OFF**
- [ ] Prop area — **“Clear!”**
- [ ] Starter — **Engage**
- [ ] Engine speed — **1000 RPM**
- [ ] Fuel pump — **OFF**
- [ ] Oil Pressure — **must indicate within 30 seconds**
- [ ] Flaps — **UP**
- [ ] Flap switch — **Center**
- [ ] Beacon — **ON**
**Hot**
> **NOTE:** Same as cold, except...
- [ ] Mixture — **Rich**
- [ ] Throttle — **Open 1 turn**
- [ ] Fuel pump — **LOW - peak twice, then OFF**
- [ ] Throttle — **Open 3/4 of full throttle**
- [ ] Prop area — **“Clear!”**
- [ ] Starter — **Engage**
- [ ] Fuel pump — **LOW momentarily as engine fires**
- [ ] Throttle — **Reduce immediately**

## After Start

- [ ] Nav lights — **On, as appropriate**
- [ ] Radio master — **ON**
- [ ] Transponder — **STANDBY**
- [ ] ATIS, Ground, Tower — **SET                   (SQL 125.9/121.6/119.0)**
- [ ] Altimeter — **Set (within 40’ field elev.)**

## Taxi

- [ ] Brakes — **Test**
- [ ] Artificial Attitude — **Check operation**
- [ ] Turn Coordinator — **Check operation**
- [ ] Directional Gyro — **Check operation**
- [ ] Magnetic compass — **Check operation, fluid level**

## Before Takeoff

**Engine Runup**
- [ ] Brakes — **Set**
- [ ] Fuel — **Desired tank (left?). NEVER aux!**
- [ ] Mixture — **Rich**
- [ ] Oil temperature — **Wait for 70°F**
- [ ] Engine speed — **1800 RPM**
- [ ] Mags — **Test: L-Both-R-Both. Drop-off < 100 Rpm and < 50 RPM differential..**
- [ ] Prop — **Cycle twice full travel. Check oil pressure/man pres/RPM drop, normal return.**
- [ ] Vacuum — **Between 4 - 7 inches**
- [ ] Alternator — **Charging - show discharge**
**Instruments**
- [ ] Engine gages — **Check**
- [ ] Instruments — **Check and set**
- [ ] Mags — **BOTH**
- [ ] Prop — **Full increase**
- [ ] Mixture — **Rich**
- [ ] Elevator trim — **3° (green/white transition)**
- [ ] Aileron trim — **Neutral**
- [ ] Flaps — **0° (first line 10° short/soft field)**
- [ ] Flight controls — **Free, correct, and smooth.**
- [ ] Door, shout, and emergency windows — **Latched**
- [ ] Seat belts — **Fastened**
- [ ] Passengers — **Briefed**
**Navigation**
- [ ] Tower/Departure freq. — **Set**
- [ ] Sqawk — **Set**
- [ ] Departure route/Navaid — **Set**

## Takeoff

- [ ] Transponder — **ALT**
- [ ] Mixture — **Rich**
- [ ] Prop — **Full increase**
- [ ] Strobes — **ON**
- [ ] Landing lights — **As appropriate**
- [ ] HSI — **Check heading with runway number**
- [ ] Departure time — **Record**
- [ ] Mixture — **Lean for takeoff, if elevation > 3000 feet**
- [ ] Rotate — **60-70 mph, VX - 75 mph Vy - 103 mph (sea level)**

## Post Takeoff

- [ ] Gear — **UP (when out of usable runway)**
- [ ] Flaps — **Up**
- [ ] Throttle/Prop — **1000 feet AGL, - 24’’/2400 RPM**

## Climb

- [ ] Each cardinal 1000 feet — **Adjust manifold pressure**
- [ ] Pass 3000/5000/7000 feet — **Adjust mixture**

## Cruse

- [ ] Throttle/Prop — **Set for cruse**
- [ ] Mixture — **Lean 50°F (25° if 65% power) below peak.**
- [ ] Cowl flaps — **Close**

## Landing - Downwind

- [ ] Gas Fuel — **Proper tank (NOT aux)**
- [ ] Undercarriage Gear — **DOWN (140 mph max)**
- [ ] Mixture — **Full rich (sea level) or as appropriate**
- [ ] Prop — **Full increase (after power reduction)**
- [ ] Switches/Seatbelts — **Landing lights/Passengers briefed and belted**
- [ ] Flaps — **Set (120 mph max)**
- [ ] Approach speed — **90 mph**

## Landing - Final

- [ ] Prop — **Full increase**
- [ ] Cowl flaps — **Open**
- [ ] Gear — **DOWN indicated locked**
- [ ] Speed over the fence — **80 mph**

## Go Around

- [ ] Prop — **Full increase**
- [ ] Throttle — **Full power**
- [ ] Mixture — **Rich (sea level) or as appropriate**
- [ ] Throttle — **Full power**
- [ ] Flaps — **Up gradually**
- [ ] Gear — **UP**
- [ ] Cowl flaps — **Open**
- [ ] Throttle/Prop — **1000 feet AGL - 24’’/2400 RPM**
- [ ] VX — **75 mph Vy - 103 mph**

## After Landing

- [ ] Flaps — **Raised**
- [ ] Transponder — **STANDBY**
- [ ] Strobes — **OFF**

## Shutdown

- [ ] Radio master — **OFF**
- [ ] Electrical Equipment — **OFF**
- [ ] Throttle — **1000 RPM**
- [ ] Prop — **Full increase**
- [ ] Mixture — **Idle cut-off**
- [ ] Master switch — **OFF**
- [ ] Mags — **OFF**
- [ ] Arrival Time — **Record**

## Secure

- [ ] Flight time — **Record in airplane log book**
- [ ] Elevator trim — **3° (green/white transition)**
- [ ] Cowl flaps — **Close**
- [ ] Gust lock and bungee cords — **Install**
- [ ] Instrument panel — **Cover with towel**
- [ ] Cabin door — **Close and lock**
- [ ] Airplane cover — **Install**
- [ ] Pitot tube cover — **Install**
- [ ] Cowl plugs — **Install**
- [ ] Tail and wing tiedowns — **Secure**
- [ ] Flight plan — **Close**

## EMERGENCY Gear Extension (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Master switch — **ON**
- [ ] Gear — **DOWN**
- [ ] Gear indicator — **Check green lamp lit or lower indicator in the DOWN position.**
> **NOTE:** If gear down indication still not present:
- [ ] Airspeed — **< 120 mph**
- [ ] Gear circuit breaker — **Pull**
- [ ] Gear crank — **approx. 50 counterclockwise turns**
- [ ] Lower gear indicator — **Verify in down position**
- [ ] Gear crank — **Stow**
> **NOTE:** Note: with landing gear circuit breaker “pulled”, landing gear position lights are nonfunctional.

## EMERGENCY Gear Up Landing (EMERGENCY)

> **NOTE:** In an emergency, a gear up landing may be made:
    > **NOTE:** 171. When the surface is too soft or rough to permit a satisfactory gear down landing.
    > **NOTE:** 172. When a field is too short for a gear down landing, one that might cause more damage by hitting obstructions than a gear up landing would.
    > **NOTE:** 173. When a water landing is necessary.
- [ ] Flaps — **UP**
- [ ] Throttle — **CLOSED**
- [ ] Master — **OFF**
- [ ] Mags — **OFF**
- [ ] Fuel selector — **OFF**

## EMERGENCY Power Loss (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Best glide speed — **103 mph**
- [ ] Select suitable landing area
- [ ] Fuel selector — **Switch to tank not in use**
- [ ] Throttle — **Open 1/2 inch from present setting**
- [ ] Prop — **Full increase**
- [ ] Fuel pressure — **Check. If none, Fuel pump - HIGH**
- [ ] Mags — **Check best: left, right, both.**
**To restart failed engine:**
    - [ ] Fuel pump — **OFF**
    - [ ] Throttle — **Closed**
    - [ ] Mixture — **Idle cut-off**
    - [ ] Fuel selector — **OFF**
    - [ ] Wait several seconds
    - [ ] Fuel elector — **Fullest tank**
    - [ ] Mixture — **Rich**
    - [ ] Throttle — **Open 1/4 inch**
    - [ ] Fuel pressure — **If zero - Fuel pump - HIGH**
**If engine cannot be restarted:**
    - [ ] Mixture — **Idle cut-off**
    - [ ] Throttle — **Closed**
    - [ ] Mags — **OFF**
    - [ ] Fuel selector — **OFF**
    - [ ] Prop — **Low RPM**
    - [ ] Best glide speed — **90 mph**

## EMERGENCY Engine Fire In Flight (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Mixture — **Idle Cut-off**
- [ ] Fuel selector — **OFF**
- [ ] Mags — **OFF**
- [ ] Throttle — **Closed**
- [ ] Best glide speed — **103 mph**

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NOT FOR FLIGHT — source fidelity: unreviewed | operational review: none | completeness: full  
Source: Beechcraft/J35 Bonanza/bonanza_j35check.txt  
Rights: licensed  
Checklist hash: 4930e4b59f740a649abc56dfd40fc6261d58af403d01f01552b1c3fd32df0df1  
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