# Mooney M20K 305 Rocket — David Mazer_Mooney_305H_Checklist

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

> **content_gap**: Section "Descent" item count differs between passes (5 vs 6); verify nothing was dropped.
> **content_gap**: Section "Fuel Settings" item count differs between passes (16 vs 6); verify nothing was dropped.
> **content_gap**: Section "Starting" item count differs between passes (36 vs 21); verify nothing was dropped.

## Preflight

**Cockpit**
- [ ] Landing gear — **Down**
- [ ] Magnetos — **Off**
- [ ] Mixture — **Idle**
- [ ] Avionics master — **Off**
- [ ] Master — **On**
- [ ] Fuel gauges — **Check**
- [ ] Lights/pitot heat — **Check**
- [ ] Master — **Off**
- [ ] Gascolator (R&L) — **5 Sec each**
- [ ] Brakes — **Set**
**Right wing**
- [ ] Flaps/ailerons — **Check**
- [ ] Wingtip/lights — **Check**
- [ ] Leading edge — **Check**
- [ ] Fuel tanks — **Check**
- [ ] Fuel drains (2) — **Check**
- [ ] Landing gear — **Check**
- [ ] Tie down/chock — **Remove**
**Cowl**
- [ ] Air inlets — **Check**
- [ ] Prop — **Check**
- [ ] Landing light — **Check**
- [ ] Oil level (9-12 Qt) — **Check**
- [ ] Landing gear — **Check**
- [ ] Chock — **Remove**
**Left wing**
- [ ] Leading edge — **Check**
- [ ] Stall warning — **Check**
- [ ] Fuel tanks — **Check**
- [ ] Fuel drains (2) — **Check**
- [ ] Landing gear — **Check**
- [ ] Tie down/chock — **Remove**
- [ ] Wingtip/lights — **Check**
- [ ] Flaps/ailerons — **Check**
**Fuselage/tail**
- [ ] Static ports — **Check**
- [ ] Tie down/chock — **Remove**
- [ ] Elevator/rudder — **Check**
- [ ] Baggage door — **Locked**

## Before Starting

- [ ] Seats/Seat belts — **Secure**
- [ ] Door — **Closed/latched/sealed**
- [ ] Circuit breakers — **Check**
- [ ] ELT — **Arm**
- [ ] Avionics master — **Off**
- [ ] Landing gear — **Down**
- [ ] Lights/pitot heat — **Off**
- [ ] Fuel pump — **Off**
- [ ] Cowl flaps — **Open**
- [ ] Fuel selector — **Emptiest tank**
- [ ] Oxygen — **Check**

## Starting

**Hot**
- [ ] Master/Alternators — **On**
- [ ] Mixture — **Lean**
- [ ] Prop — **High**
- [ ] Throttle — **Full open**
- [ ] Prime — **3-6 sec.**
- [ ] Mixture — **Lean**
- [ ] Prop area — **Clear**
- [ ] Magnetos — **Start**
- [ ] Mixture — **Rich**
- [ ] Throttle — **Idle**
**Cold**
- [ ] Brakes — **On**
- [ ] Master/Alternators — **On**
- [ ] Mixture — **Rich**
- [ ] Prop — **High**
- [ ] Throttle — **Full open**
- [ ] Prime — **6-12 sec.**
- [ ] Throttle — **¼ inch**
- [ ] Prop area — **Clear**
- [ ] Magnetos — **Start**
- [ ] Throttle — **1000 RPM**
- [ ] Oil Pressure — **Check**
- [ ] Engine instruments — **Normal**
- [ ] Mixture — **Lean to 2.5 GPH**
- [ ] Avionics master — **On**
- [ ] Transponder — **Standby**
- [ ] Nav lights — **On**
- [ ] Other lights — **As required**
- [ ] Fuel selector — **Switch tanks**
- [ ] Radios — **Set**
- [ ] GPS   ( expiration
- [ ] GPS — **Enter x 3, set**
- [ ] Autopilot — **Test**
- [ ] Altimeter — **Set**
- [ ] Brakes — **Release**

## Run-up

- [ ] Brakes — **Set**
- [ ] Door — **Inflate**
- [ ] Fuel selector — **Fullest tank**
- [ ] Controls — **Free and correct**
- [ ] Speed brakes — **Check**
- [ ] Oil Temp — **> 75 degrees**
- [ ] Mixture — **Rich**
- [ ] Throttle — **1800 RPM**
- [ ] Engine gauges — **Check**
- [ ] Battery — **Check**
- [ ] Vacuum — **4.0-5.5**
- [ ] Prop — **Cycle (3), 300 RPM**
- [ ] Magnetos — **150 max, 50 diff**
- [ ] Throttle — **Idle**
- [ ] Annunciator panel — **Test**
- [ ] Throttle — **1000 RPM**
- [ ] Trim — **Take off**
- [ ] Flaps — **Take off**
- [ ] Circuit breakers — **Check**

## Cleared for Take-off

- [ ] Oil Temp — **> 100 degrees**
- [ ] Door/window — **Closed/locked**
- [ ] Seats/Seatbelts — **Secure**
- [ ] Lights — **As required**
- [ ] Transponder — **ALT**
- [ ] Power — **38” MP/2650 RPM**
- [ ] Vr (rotate) — **62 kts**

## Fuel Settings

**%     Setting          GPH**
- [ ] 55%
- [ ] 26/2200
- [ ] 13.3
- [ ] 65%
- [ ] 30/2200
- [ ] 16.7
- [ ] 72%
- [ ] 31/2300
- [ ] 17.5
- [ ] 75%
- [ ] 31/2400
- [ ] 18.6
- [ ] 88%
- [ ] 35/2500
- [ ] 21.2

## Climb

- [ ] Landing gear — **Up**
- [ ] VLO (retraction) — **107 kts**
- [ ] VFE (flap extension) — **112 kts**
- [ ] Flaps — **Up**
- [ ] Power — **35” MP/2500 RPM**
- [ ] Mixture — **TIT 1500**
- [ ] Vx (best angle) — **91 kts**
- [ ] Vy (best rate) — **108 kts**
- [ ] Cruise climb — **135 kts**
- [ ] Engine instruments — **Check**
- [ ] Landing/taxi lights — **Off**

## Cruise

- [ ] Cowl flaps — **Closed**
- [ ] Engine instruments — **Check**
- [ ] Battery — **Check**
- [ ] Vacuum — **4.0-5.5**
- [ ] Power — **26-32, 2200-2400**
- [ ] TIT — **1500**
- [ ] Fuel selector — **Check**
- [ ] Door — **Seal**
- [ ] VNE (never exceed) — **196 kts**
- [ ] VNO (max cruise) — **160-174 kts**
- [ ] VA (maneuvering) — **101-118 kts**
- [ ] VLE (gear extended) — **165 kts**

## Descent

- [ ] Cowl flaps — **Closed**
- [ ] Power (1 MP/min max — **25 MP, 2200 RPM**
- [ ] Mixture — **1500 TIT**
- [ ] Fuel selector — **Fullest tank**
- [ ] ATIS — **Check**

## Landing

- [ ] Landing/taxi lights — **Check**
- [ ] Power, level — **20 MP, 2200**
- [ ] Power, descent — **15 MP, 2200**
- [ ] VLO (extension) — **140 kts**
- [ ] VFE (extension) — **112 kts**
- [ ] Speed brakes — **As required**
- [ ] Gas — **Fullest tank**
- [ ] Undercarriage — **Down**
- [ ] Mixture — **Rich**
- [ ] Prop — **High**
- [ ] Seatbelts — **Check**

## Off Active

- [ ] Cowl flaps — **Open**
- [ ] Flaps — **Up**
- [ ] Pitot heat — **Off**
- [ ] Landing/taxi lights — **Off**
- [ ] Transponder — **Standby**
- [ ] Landing time — **Note**
- [ ] Door seal — **Deflate**

## Shutdown

- [ ] Throttle — **1000 RPM**
- [ ] Idle before shutdown — **5 min**
- [ ] Lights — **Off**
- [ ] Avionics master — **Off**
- [ ] Mixture — **Cut-off**
- [ ] Magnetos — **Off**
- [ ] Alternator — **Off**
- [ ] Master — **Off**

## Engine Failure (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Airspeed — **87 kts**
- [ ] Best landing option — **Select**
- [ ] Checklist — **Review**
- [ ] Prop — **Feather**
- [ ] Throttle — **Check**
- [ ] Low fuel boost — **On**
- [ ] Fuel selector — **Switch tanks**
- [ ] Mixture — **Check**
- [ ] Magnetos — **Check**
- [ ] ELT — **ARM**
- [ ] Transponder — **7700**
- [ ] Radios — **121.5**
- [ ] Seatbelts — **Check**

## Power Off Landing (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Mixture — **Idle**
- [ ] Fuel — **Off**
- [ ] Magnetos — **Off**
- [ ] Flaps — **Full when certain**
- [ ] Gear — **Check**
- [ ] Door — **open**
- [ ] Master — **Off**

## Icing (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Alternate Air — **On**
- [ ] Cabin heat — **On**
- [ ] Defrost — **On**
- [ ] Pitot heat — **On**
- [ ] Mixture — **Check**
- [ ] Cowl flaps — **Open**

## Fire in Flight (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Fuel — **Off**
- [ ] Throttle — **Off**
- [ ] Mixture — **Cut off**
- [ ] Magnetos — **Off**
- [ ] Cabin vent/heat — **Off**
- [ ] Cowl flaps — **Closed**

## Fire on Ground (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Start — **1500 RPM**
- [ ] Shut down — **3 minutes**
- [ ] Mixture — **Cut off**
- [ ] Throttle — **Open**
- [ ] Fuel/mags/master — **Off**

## Electrical Fire (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Master — **Off**
- [ ] Alternator — **Off**
- [ ] Cabin vent — **Open**
- [ ] Cabin heat — **Closed**
- [ ] Circuit breakers — **Check**

## Gear Extension Failure (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Airspeed — **< 140 kts**
- [ ] Gear circuit breakers — **Pull**
- [ ] Gear selector — **Down**
- [ ] Red handle — **Forward**
- [ ] T-handle — **12-20**
- [ ] Gear circuit breakers — **Reset**

## Alternator Failure (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Avionics master — **Off**
- [ ] Master — **Off then on**
- [ ] Circuit breakers — **Check**
- [ ] Gear selector — **Down**

## Door Open (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Airspeed — **95 kts**
- [ ] Right bank/Left rudder — **Check**

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NOT FOR FLIGHT — source fidelity: unreviewed | operational review: none | completeness: full  
Source: Mooney/M20K 305 Rocket/David Mazer_Mooney_305H_Checklist.txt  
Rights: licensed  
Checklist hash: f21ad55616e85198e9b05929277da29f20aeb5ca0a11c70c242d8c7a4c05d8e4  
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