# Mooney M20R Ovation 2 — Johnathan_Celso_MooneyM20R_Ovation2_Checklist

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

> **content_gap**: Section "Before Takeoff" item count differs between passes (18 vs 19); verify nothing was dropped.
> **content_gap**: Section "Descent" item count differs between passes (4 vs 5); verify nothing was dropped.
> **content_gap**: Section "Landing" item count differs between passes (19 vs 17); verify nothing was dropped.
> **content_gap**: Section "Securing Aircraft" item count differs between passes (10 vs 11); verify nothing was dropped.
> **content_gap**: Section "Starting Engines" item count differs between passes (20 vs 21); verify nothing was dropped.

## Preflight Inspection

**Cabin**
- [ ] A.R.R.O.W. — **Check**
- [ ] Control Lock — **Remove**
- [ ] Alternate Static Air — **Off**
- [ ] Gear Selector — **Down**
- [ ] Ignition Switch — **Off**
- [ ] Master Switch — **On**
- [ ] Fuel Quantity — **Check**
- [ ] Battery Voltage — **Check**
- [ ] Standby Vacuum — **Check**
- [ ] Pitot Heat — **Check**
- [ ] Trim — **Neutral**
- [ ] Flaps — **Down/Check**
- [ ] Master Switch — **Off**
- [ ] Fire Extinguisher — **Charged/Secure**
**Fuselage/Tail**
- [ ] Skin/Windows — **Check**
- [ ] Antennas — **Check**
- [ ] Beacon/Strobe Lights — **Check**
- [ ] Access Panels — **Secure**
- [ ] Static Ports — **Check**
- [ ] Static Drain Valve — **Push**
- [ ] Fresh Air Vent — **Check**
- [ ] Elevator/Rudder — **Inspect**
- [ ] Tiedown — **Remove**
**Left Wing**
- [ ] Aileron/Flap — **Inspect**
- [ ] Nav/Strobe/Recog Lights — **Check**
- [ ] Pitot Tube Cover — **Check**
- [ ] Pitot Tube — **Check**
- [ ] Pitot Drain Valve — **Push**
- [ ] Landing/Taxi Lights — **Check**
- [ ] Stall Warning Vane — **Check**
- [ ] Main Gear/Wheel — **Check**
- [ ] Fuel Sumps — **Test**
- [ ] Fuel Tank/Cap/Vent — **Check**
- [ ] Wheel Chocks/Tiedown — **Remove**
**Nose**
- [ ] Air Inlets — **Check**
- [ ] Engine Oil/Cap — **Check**
- [ ] Engine Cowl — **Secure**
- [ ] Propeller/Spinner — **Check**
- [ ] Air Intakes — **Check**
- [ ] Exhaust Pipes — **Check**
- [ ] Nose Gear/Wheel — **Check**
**Right Wing**
- [ ] Wheel Chocks/Tiedown — **Remove**
- [ ] Fuel Sumps — **Test**
- [ ] Fuel Tank/Cap/Vent — **Check**
- [ ] Main Gear/Wheel — **Check**
- [ ] Landing/Taxi Lights — **Check**
- [ ] Nav/Strobe/Recog Lights — **Check**
- [ ] Aileron/Flap — **Inspect**
- [ ] Baggage Door — **Close/Lock**

## Before Starting Engine

- [ ] Preflight Inspection Completed
- [ ] Passengers — **Briefed**
- [ ] Seatbelts — **Fastened**
- [ ] Cabin Door — **Closed/Locked**
- [ ] Parking Brake — **Set**
- [ ] Fuel Selector — **Right Tank**
- [ ] Gascolator — **Drain (5 Sec)**
- [ ] Fuel Selector — **Left Tank**
- [ ] Gascolator — **Drain (5 Sec)**
- [ ] Gear Selector — **Down**
- [ ] Circuit Breakers — **In**
- [ ] Electrical Equipment — **Off**
- [ ] Radio Master Switch — **Off**
- [ ] Ignition Switch — **Off**
- [ ] Alternate Air — **Off**
- [ ] Propeller — **Full High**
- [ ] Mixture — **Idle Cutoff**
- [ ] Master Switch — **On**
- [ ] Alternator — **On**
- [ ] Rotating Beacon — **On**

## Starting Engines

**Normal**
- [ ] Throttle — **Open 1/4”**
- [ ] Prime (Omit If Hot)
- [ ] Mixture — **Full Rich**
- [ ] Boost Pump — **On (5 Sec)**
- [ ] Mixture — **Idle Cutoff**
- [ ] Propeller Area — **Clear**
- [ ] Ignition Switch — **Both**
- [ ] Starter — **Engage**
- [ ] Mixture — **Enrich**
- [ ] Throttle — **1000 RPM**
**Flooded**
- [ ] Throttle — **Full Open**
- [ ] Mixture — **Idle Cutoff**
- [ ] Propeller Area — **Clear**
- [ ] Ignition Switch — **Both**
- [ ] Starter — **Engage**
- [ ] Throttle — **Reduce**
- [ ] Mixture — **Enrich**
- [ ] Throttle — **1000 RPM**

## Before Taxi

- [ ] Oil Pressure — **Check**
- [ ] Mixture — **Lean**
- [ ] Flaps — **Up**
- [ ] Annunciator Panel — **Test**
- [ ] ELT — **Arm**
- [ ] Radio Master Switch — **On**
- [ ] Transponder — **Standby**
- [ ] Avionics — **Test/Set**
- [ ] Clearance — **Obtain**

## Taxi

- [ ] Parking Brake — **Release**
- [ ] Nav/Taxi Lights — **As Required**
- [ ] Brakes/Steering — **Check**
- [ ] Flight Instruments — **Check**

## Before Takeoff

- [ ] Parking Brake — **Set**
- [ ] Fuel Selector — **Fullest Tank**
- [ ] Mixture — **Full Rich**
- [ ] Throttle — **2000 RPM**
- [ ] Magnetos — **Check**
- [ ] Propeller — **Cycle**
- [ ] Vacuum/Ammeter — **Check**
- [ ] Engine Gauges — **Check**
- [ ] Annunciator Panel — **Check**
- [ ] Throttle — **1000 RPM**
- [ ] Flight Instruments — **Set**
- [ ] Flight Controls — **Free/Correct**
- [ ] Trim/Flaps — **Set Takeoff**
- [ ] Boost Pump — **On**
- [ ] Strobe/Recog Lights — **On**
- [ ] Landing Lights — **As Required**
- [ ] Transponder — **On/Altitude**
- [ ] Parking Brake — **Release**

## Takeoff

**Normal**
- [ ] Throttle — **Full Open**
- [ ] Rotate — **67 KIAS**
- [ ] Gear Selector — **Up**
- [ ] Climb Speed — **105 KIAS**
- [ ] Flaps — **Up**
- [ ] Boost Pump/Excess Lights — **Off**
**Short Field**
- [ ] Brakes — **Apply**
- [ ] Throttle — **Full Open**
- [ ] Rotate — **67 KIAS**
- [ ] Climb Speed — **85 KIAS**
- [ ] Obstacles — **Clear**
- [ ] Gear Selector — **Up**
- [ ] Climb Speed — **105 KIAS**
- [ ] Flaps — **Up**
- [ ] Boost Pump/Excess Lights — **Off**

## Climb

- [ ] Power — **Max MP/2500 RPM**
- [ ] Mixture — **100° Rich EGT**
- [ ] Climb Speed — **120 KIAS**
- [ ] Trim — **Set**

## Cruise

- [ ] Power — **As Desired**
- [ ] Mixture — **50° Rich EGT**
- [ ] Trim — **Set**
- [ ] Fuel Selector — **Switch Tanks**

## Descent

- [ ] Power — **20” MP/2000 RPM**
- [ ] Mixture — **25° Rich EGT**
- [ ] Speed Brakes — **As Required**
- [ ] Trim — **Set**

## Before Landing

- [ ] Seatbelts — **Fastened**
- [ ] Fuel Selector — **Fullest Tank**
- [ ] Parking Brake — **Released**
- [ ] Propeller — **Full High**
- [ ] Mixture — **Full Rich**
- [ ] Flaps — **As Desired**
- [ ] Approach Speed — **90-100 KIAS**
- [ ] Trim — **Set**
- [ ] Boost Pump — **On**
- [ ] Landing/Taxi Lights — **As Required**

## Landing

**Normal**
- [ ] Flaps — **Down**
- [ ] Gear Selector — **Down/Check**
- [ ] Approach Speed — **80 KIAS**
- [ ] Trim — **Set**
- [ ] Touchdown — **Main Wheels First**
- [ ] Throttle — **Idle**
- [ ] Brakes — **Apply**
- [ ] Flaps — **Up**
**Short Field**
- [ ] Flaps — **Down**
- [ ] Gear Selector — **Down/Check**
- [ ] Speed Brakes — **Extended**
- [ ] Approach Speed — **75 KIAS**
- [ ] Trim — **Set**
- [ ] Touchdown — **Main Wheels First**
- [ ] Throttle — **Idle**
- [ ] Brakes — **Apply**
- [ ] Flaps — **Up**

## Balked

- [ ] Throttle — **Full Open**
- [ ] Positive Climb Rate — **Check**
- [ ] Speed Brakes — **Retracted**
- [ ] Flaps — **Set Takeoff**
- [ ] Climb Speed — **85 KIAS**
- [ ] Obstacles — **Clear**
- [ ] Gear Selector — **Up**
- [ ] Climb Speed — **105 KIAS**
- [ ] Flaps — **Up**

## After Landing

- [ ] Landing/Strobe/Recog Lights — **Off**
- [ ] Speed Brakes — **Retract**
- [ ] Boost Pump — **Off**
- [ ] Flaps — **Up**
- [ ] Transponder — **Standby**

## Securing Aircraft

- [ ] Brakes — **Apply**
- [ ] ELT — **Disarm**
- [ ] Electrical Equipment — **Off**
- [ ] Throttle — **1000 RPM**
- [ ] Mixture — **Idle Cutoff**
- [ ] Engine — **Shutdown**
- [ ] Ignition Switch — **Off**
- [ ] Master Switch — **Off**
- [ ] Alternator — **Off**
- [ ] Locks/Chocks/Tiedowns — **Install**

## Close Flight Plan

- [ ] Close Flight Plan

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NOT FOR FLIGHT — source fidelity: unreviewed | operational review: none | completeness: full  
Source: Mooney/M20R Ovation 2/Johnathan_Celso_MooneyM20R_Ovation2_Checklist.txt  
Rights: licensed  
Checklist hash: 7aea5def0ff7743a35ff32095737ca069360ccdc88867c86787d3cfe89e4cc74  
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