# Mooney M20C — jim_allen_9128v

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

> **content_gap**: Section "Fuel Tank Measurements" item count differs between passes (17 vs 16); verify nothing was dropped.
> **content_gap**: Section "Preflight Check" item count differs between passes (49 vs 47); verify nothing was dropped.
> **content_gap**: Section "Takeoff" item count differs between passes (6 vs 7); verify nothing was dropped.

## Preflight Check

**1.**
- [ ] Ignition Switch
- [ ] Ignition Switch — **OFF**
- [ ] Master Switch — **ON to check outside lights, then OFF**
- [ ] Fuel Selector Drain — Selector handle on R; pull ring and hold for 5 seconds. Repeat procedure with selector handle on L. — **DRAIN**
- [ ] Instrument Static Port — **UNOBSTRUCTED**
- [ ] Tail tiedown — **REMOVE**
- [ ] Empennage — **CHECK**
> **NOTE:** Remove ice, snow, or frost.
- [ ] Tail Cone Access Door — **SECURE**
- [ ] Instrument Static Port — **UNOBSTRUCTED**
- [ ] Static Drain System — **CHECK**
- [ ] Wing Skins — **CHECK**
- [ ] Flap and Attach Points — **CHECK**
- [ ] Aileron and Attach Points — **CHECK**
- [ ] Wing Tip and Navigation Light — **CHECK**
> **NOTE:** Remove ice, snow, or frost.
- [ ] Left Wing Leading Edge — **CHECK**
- [ ] Pitot Tube and Stall Switch Vane — **UNOBSTRUCTED**
- [ ] Fuel Tank — **CHECK QUANTITY; SECURE CAP**
- [ ] Chock and Tiedown — **REMOVE**
- [ ] Left Main Gear Shock Discs and Tire — **CHECK**
- [ ] Fuel Tank Sump Drain — **SAMPLE**
- [ ] Pitot System Drain — **CHECK**
- [ ] Tank Vent — **UNOBSTRUCTED**
- [ ] Fuel Selector Drain Valve — **CLOSED**
- [ ] Windshields — **CLEAN**
- [ ] Left Side Engine Cowl Fasteners — **SECURE**
- [ ] Propeller — **CHECK for nicks and cracks**
- [ ] Forward Engine Components — Starter, alternator belt, etc. — **CHECK**
- [ ] Induction Air Filter — **CHECK clean and sealed**
- [ ] Landing Light — **CHECK**
- [ ] Nose Gear — Tire; check for towing damage — **CHECK**
- [ ] Shock Discs — **CHECK**
- [ ] Right Side Engine Cowl Fasteners — **SECURE**
- [ ] Engine Oil Level — **CHECK (Full for Extended Flight)**
- [ ] Windshield — **CLEAN**
- [ ] Fuel Tank Sump Drain — **SAMPLE**
- [ ] Tank Vent — **UNOBSTRUCTED**
- [ ] Chock and Tiedown — **REMOVE**
- [ ] Right Main Gear Shock Discs and Tire — **CHECK**
- [ ] Fuel Tank — **CHECK QUANTITY; SECURE CAP**
- [ ] Right Wing Leading Edge — **CHECK**
- [ ] Wing Skins — **CHECK**
- [ ] Wing Tip and Navigation Light — **CHECK**
- [ ] Aileron and Attach Points — **CHECK**
- [ ] Flap and Attach Points — **CHECK**
> **NOTE:** Remove ice, snow, or frost.
- [ ] Baggage Door — **SECURE**

## Before Starting

- [ ] Fuel Selector Handle — **SET for fuller tank**
- [ ] Parking Brake — **PULL ON**
- [ ] Ignition and Master Switches — **OFF**
- [ ] Carburetor Heat — **OFF**
- [ ] Landing Gear Switch — **DOWN**
- [ ] Mixture Control — **IDLE CUTOFF**
- [ ] Propeller — **HIGH RPM**
- [ ] Throttle — **CLOSE**
- [ ] Boost Pump — **OFF**
- [ ] Anti-collision Light — **OFF**
- [ ] Navigation Lights — **OFF**
- [ ] Landing Light — **OFF**
- [ ] Radios — **ALL OFF**
- [ ] Cabin Heat — **OFF**
- [ ] Main Circuit Breaker Panel — **CHECK**
- [ ] Auxiliary Circuit Breaker Panel — **CHECK**

## Starting Check

- [ ] Master Switch — **ON**
- [ ] Fuel Selector Indicators — **CHECK for conformity to observed quantity**
- [ ] Annunciator Lights — **PRESS to TEST**
- [ ] Landing GEAR DN Light — **GREEN**
- [ ] Electric Fuel Pump — **ON**
- [ ] Mixture Control — **OPEN to FULL RICH**
- [ ] Throttle — **PUMP TWICE to prime engine; then open approximately one-quarter**
- [ ] Ignition-Starter Switch — **turn to START and PRESS forward. When engine fires, release to BOTH.**
- [ ] Throttle — **Set for 1000 to 1200 RPM**
- [ ] Oil Pressure Gage — **25 PSI MIN**
- [ ] Carburetor Heat — **ON momentarily to check operation**
- [ ] Fuel Pressure Gage — **GREEN ARC**
- [ ] Lights — **As required**
- [ ] Anticollision Light — **ON**
- [ ] Pitot Heat — **CHECK and note ammeter deflection**
- [ ] Radios — **ON and CHECK**
- [ ] Stabilizer Trim Indicator — **TAKEOFF**
- [ ] Fuel Selector Handle — **CHECK right and left**

## Flooded Engine Clearing (ABNORMAL)

- [ ] Throttle — **FULL OPEN**
- [ ] Mixture Control — **IDLE CUTOFF**
- [ ] Electric Fuel Pump — **OFF**
- [ ] Ignition Starter Switch — **turn to START and PRESS forward**
- [ ] Throttle — **RETARD when engine starts**
- [ ] Mixture Control — **OPEN slowly to FULL RICH**

## Cold Weather Starting

> **NOTE:** HAND CRANKING

## Before-Takeoff Check

- [ ] Flight Controls — **FREE AND CORRECT**
- [ ] Fuel Selector Handle — **SET to fuller tank**
- [ ] Altimeter — **SET to field elevation or field altimeter setting**
- [ ] Directional Gyro — **SET to magnetic compass**
- [ ] Flight Instruments
- [ ] Engine Instruments
- [ ] Clock — **SET and wind as needed**
- [ ] Stabilizer Trim — **SET for TAKEOFF**
- [ ] Propeller — **CYCLE and CHECK at 1700 RPM**
- [ ] Magnetos — **CHECK at 1700 RPM**
- [ ] Wing Flaps — **SET for TAKEOFF or as desired**
- [ ] Seats — **LOCKED**
- [ ] Seat Belts — **FASTENED**
- [ ] Door and Pilot Window — **LATCHED CLOSED**
**Upon Taking Runway**
- [ ] Fuel Pump — **ON**
- [ ] Transponder — **ALT 1200 or as assigned**
- [ ] Mixture — **LEANED for Best Power**
- [ ] Propeller — **FULL INCREASE**
- [ ] Flaps — **TAKEOFF or as desired**
- [ ] Fuel Selector Handle — **FULLER TANK**
> **WARNING:** Do not change fuel tanks immediately before takeoff.

## Takeoff

> **NOTE:** At 65-75 MPH increase back pressure, then relax slightly after A/C breaks ground to keep nose on the horizon. For crosswind takeoff, hold A/C on the ground to a higher speed, then pull up abruptly and make a coordinated turn into wind to correct for drift when clear of ground.
- [ ] Landing gear — **Retract as soon as safely airborne and in good control**
- [ ] Flaps — **Retract upon clearing obstacles and IAS of 80 to 90 MPH**
- [ ] Throttle — **Reduce to 25" MP w/i 2 minutes**
- [ ] Fuel Pump — **Turn off at a safe altitude**
> **NOTE:** Climb at 115-120 for visibility and cooling. Best rate of climb speed is 100 MPH at sea level, decreasing approx. 1 MPH per 1000 feet of altitude. Maximum Angle of climb is about 80 MPH gear and flaps up.

## Inflight Restarting (ABNORMAL)

- [ ] Propeller — **HIGH RPM**
- [ ] Fuel Selector — **Fuller Tank**
- [ ] Mixture Control — **IDLE CUTOFF**
- [ ] Boost Pump — **ON**
- [ ] Throttle — **OPEN 1/4 travel**
- [ ] Ignition Switch — **BOTH**
- [ ] Mixture Control — **Move slowly and smoothly to FULL RICH**
- [ ] Power and RPM — **Re-establish cruise power and RPM, then lean mixture**

## Descent Prior to Landing

- [ ] Reduce Power gradually to avoid rapid engine cooling.
- [ ] Plan descent early.
- [ ] GEAR and FLAP SPEED — **120 MPH. DO NOT EXCEED!!**

## Before Landing Check

- [ ] Seat Belts — **FASTENED**
- [ ] Fuel Selector Handle — **SET to fuller tank**
- [ ] Electric Fuel Pump — **ON**
- [ ] Mixture Control — **FULL RICH**
- [ ] Carburetor Heat — **FULL ON**
- [ ] Airspeed — **REDUCE to 120 MPH**
- [ ] Propeller — **FULL INCREASE**
- [ ] Landing Gear — **DOWN and LOCKED; green annunciator light ON**
- [ ] Flaps — **As required**
- [ ] Trim — **As required**

## After Landing and Taxi Check

- [ ] Electric Fuel Pump — **OFF**
- [ ] Carburetor Heat — **OFF**
- [ ] Wing Flaps — **RETRACT**
- [ ] Transponder — **STANDBY**
- [ ] Stabilizer Trim — **TAKEOFF**
- [ ] Throttle — **1000 to 1200 RPM**

## Shutdown Check

- [ ] Throttle — **IDLE at 1000 to 1200 RPM until CHT starts to drop**
- [ ] Radios — **OFF**
- [ ] Electrical Switches — **OFF**
- [ ] Mixture Control — **IDLE CUTOFF**
- [ ] Throttle — **RETARD as engine stops firing**
- [ ] Ignition Starter Switch — **OFF when propeller stops**
- [ ] Trim — **TAKEOFF**
- [ ] Flaps — **RETRACTED**
- [ ] Master Switch — **OFF**
- [ ] Overhead Air Scoop — **CLOSED**
- [ ] Seat belts and equipment — **STOWED**
- [ ] Wheel Chocks and Tiedown — **As required**

## Fuel Tank Measurements

**Inches | Mark | Gallons**
> **NOTE:** 0 in — None — 4 gal
> **NOTE:** 2 in — 1 — 5 gal
> **NOTE:** 2.5 in — 2 — 6 gal
> **NOTE:** 3 in — 3 — 7 gal
> **NOTE:** 3.75 in — 4 — 8 gal
> **NOTE:** 4.5 in — 5 — 9 gal
> **NOTE:** 5 in — 6 — 10 gal
> **NOTE:** 5.5 in — 7 — 11 gal
> **NOTE:** 6 in — 8 — 12 gal
> **NOTE:** 6.125 in — 9 — 13 gal
> **NOTE:** 7.5 in — 10 — 14 gal
> **NOTE:** 8.5 in — 11 — 16 gal
> **NOTE:** 9.75 in — 12 — 18 gal
> **NOTE:** 11 in — 13 — 20 gal
> **NOTE:** 12.25 in — 14 — 22 gal
> **NOTE:** 13.5 in — 15 — 24 gal

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NOT FOR FLIGHT — source fidelity: unreviewed | operational review: none | completeness: full  
Source: Mooney/M20C/jim_allen_9128v.txt  
Rights: licensed  
Checklist hash: ef79506cd95850ad22021ed70df04ad025336a7a93c368b551b224cf1792547b  
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