My wife is currently pregnant with our first child - a girl. Watching you with your girls gives me a lot of excitement for whats to come. Thanks for sharing!
Congrats Sam!!! I'm excited for you and your wife! Having the family involved is unbelievably rewarding, and humbling at the same time. I wouldn't have it any other way.
I’m working up a Mooney M20 checklist. It includes preflight, before starting engines, starting, climb, approach and more. Trying to be thorough, but simple. Willing to share with anyone who wants a copy. Note, is set up for my M20c configuration, but you can modify easily.
Hello from Sydney Australia. Have you tried to remove the wing dent with a sink plunger? * Leave plane in sunshine, then attach wet and pull. It works on motor car panels. It's best A.S.A.P 🌏🇦🇺
My flight instructor on my first lesson tried to step me through the preflight without a checklist. I insisted on following it including checking things he told me not to bother with. He really got annoyed when I insisted on opening the other side of the engine cowling to visually check that side of the engine. It was a Piper Cherokee so not hard or time consuming to do, and no, just checking one side and seeing that there isn't oil all over the place isn't enough. I should have known then and there how useless he would be. Well, I got one hour of flight time under my belt, got to practice some maneuvering including steep turns while he had his head down looking at his phone. Needless to say, I didn't go back.
Great video! Been spending my lunches on the simulator, I’m starting to have realistic landings! I was informed that a Mooney can’t land at 180kts with full flaps in real life. Who knew!?🤷♂️ now I’m landing at 48-50 in a 172, so I guess that’s better? A landings a landing, right?? Lol. Thanks for taking us around the Mooney. See you again soon!
My wife and I just did 2000 miles round trip in the Mooney, for that i start with a thorough inspection including pulling the cowls, etc. Along the way the pre-flights are more simple, but always checking the things that kill complacent pilots.
Very good point here. The flight, or trip you are taking can / should impact how deep of an inspection you’re doing. If your going to travel for a week solid, it’s certainly worth digging deeper prior to starting that trip! Good stuff man!
@@MyTimeToFly I got to thinking about it and the types of things that can easily be skipped over on a trip like that. We stopped at 9 airports and fueled up at most of them with 3 overnights in 4 days. An old pilot once told me he’d lost a dozen pilot friends over the course of 50 years, all of them preventable. One would never visually check his fuel tanks or sump, another tended to skip checking the oil, another lost all his fuel to a lost fuel cap. Also easy to skip the pre takeoff or landing checklist when you’re hitting airport after airport. Dynamics of complacency can change….
What you've said here is incredibly PROFOUND! We must protect ourselves from complacency. If you find yourself asking the question "should I?", you probably should!!!
Alternator belt, break pads, also a big one, when you retract your flaps, you should go around and look around for anything out of the normal or anything that shouldn’t be, i always retract my flaps when I’m doing my walk around to give it a in deep look.
Great video!! The first thing I do is lower the flaps and do a light check. Then I pretty much follow suit with your preflight. Checklist in hand for me. Good habit to have. Plus, I'm a student. My check ride is 12 Oct. I'm learning in a Cherokee 180!!
It's interesting that your fuel sumping is significantly different than my 1968 M20G. I have a sump at each tank and the gascolator is sumped by pulling a ring inside the cabin next to the fuel selector. I do that as part of the start up checklist rather than the preflight.
They changed the fuel selector system and the sumo mechanism in 64. Mine is a 62 and I know of other 62-63 that have the same as the one shown in the video.
Oh dude you gave me a scare pulling the prop around.. absolutely do not rotate it like that! Many die all the time due this if that mag is not ground. My DPE used to research those accidents.
Yea, I knew I messed up there! I heard the click and thought…quit doing dumb stuff to try and get better video. It won’t happen again…thanks for holding me accountable!!!
The mag shouldn't fire if the prop is spun backwards. The impulse coupling is designed to only engage when rotating the direction the engine spins while running.
About once a month do a mag ground check. While the engine is running at about 800 to 1000 RPM quickly turn your mags from run to off, then back on. The engine will run very ruff and back to smooth. Watch the Rod Machado’s Video on the AOPA Flying Safe website about this check.
My wife is currently pregnant with our first child - a girl. Watching you with your girls gives me a lot of excitement for whats to come. Thanks for sharing!
Congrats Sam!!! I'm excited for you and your wife! Having the family involved is unbelievably rewarding, and humbling at the same time. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Great looking family.
Thanks Jim…no doubt I’m a lucky man!
I’m working up a Mooney M20 checklist. It includes preflight, before starting engines, starting, climb, approach and more. Trying to be thorough, but simple. Willing to share with anyone who wants a copy. Note, is set up for my M20c configuration, but you can modify easily.
Very cool! Thanks for the offer!!!
Hello from Sydney Australia.
Have you tried to remove the wing dent with a sink plunger?
* Leave plane in sunshine, then attach wet and pull. It works on motor car panels. It's best A.S.A.P
🌏🇦🇺
I have not tried it. Being aluminum rather than steel, I would be a bit more nervous to try it.
Good video. My preflight is almost identical.
Thanks Mark. Either we've got it right, or we're both in trouble!
My flight instructor on my first lesson tried to step me through the preflight without a checklist. I insisted on following it including checking things he told me not to bother with. He really got annoyed when I insisted on opening the other side of the engine cowling to visually check that side of the engine. It was a Piper Cherokee so not hard or time consuming to do, and no, just checking one side and seeing that there isn't oil all over the place isn't enough. I should have known then and there how useless he would be. Well, I got one hour of flight time under my belt, got to practice some maneuvering including steep turns while he had his head down looking at his phone. Needless to say, I didn't go back.
Sounds like you made a great call there!!! There is no place for instructors that don't legitimately care about their students!!!
Great video! Been spending my lunches on the simulator, I’m starting to have realistic landings! I was informed that a Mooney can’t land at 180kts with full flaps in real life. Who knew!?🤷♂️ now I’m landing at 48-50 in a 172, so I guess that’s better? A landings a landing, right?? Lol. Thanks for taking us around the Mooney. See you again soon!
Haha, nice…rip the flaps right off that Mooney? The 172 landings sound a lot closer to reality! Talk to you soon my man!
My wife and I just did 2000 miles round trip in the Mooney, for that i start with a thorough inspection including pulling the cowls, etc. Along the way the pre-flights are more simple, but always checking the things that kill complacent pilots.
Very good point here. The flight, or trip you are taking can / should impact how deep of an inspection you’re doing. If your going to travel for a week solid, it’s certainly worth digging deeper prior to starting that trip! Good stuff man!
@@MyTimeToFly I got to thinking about it and the types of things that can easily be skipped over on a trip like that. We stopped at 9 airports and fueled up at most of them with 3 overnights in 4 days. An old pilot once told me he’d lost a dozen pilot friends over the course of 50 years, all of them preventable. One would never visually check his fuel tanks or sump, another tended to skip checking the oil, another lost all his fuel to a lost fuel cap. Also easy to skip the pre takeoff or landing checklist when you’re hitting airport after airport. Dynamics of complacency can change….
What you've said here is incredibly PROFOUND! We must protect ourselves from complacency. If you find yourself asking the question "should I?", you probably should!!!
I reckon you did a good job of it . That is a neat looking Cessna parked next to yours. Thanks
Thanks you kindly! I don’t know much about that Cessna, except it sure seems to be sitting there all the time.
Alternator belt, break pads, also a big one, when you retract your flaps, you should go around and look around for anything out of the normal or anything that shouldn’t be, i always retract my flaps when I’m doing my walk around to give it a in deep look.
Great stuff man, I will certainly be adding these details to my checklist.
Great video!! The first thing I do is lower the flaps and do a light check. Then I pretty much follow suit with your preflight. Checklist in hand for me. Good habit to have. Plus, I'm a student. My check ride is 12 Oct. I'm learning in a Cherokee 180!!
Go get it man!!! Have a blast getting that ticket!!!
Same here!
It's interesting that your fuel sumping is significantly different than my 1968 M20G. I have a sump at each tank and the gascolator is sumped by pulling a ring inside the cabin next to the fuel selector. I do that as part of the start up checklist rather than the preflight.
Oh wow, that is crazy. I guess the only difference is that I sump my gascolator by laying on my back…you get to just pull a little ring!
My 64 E also has the ring inside the cabin at the fuel selector. That is odd it's external.
M20g here, i concur.
They changed the fuel selector system and the sumo mechanism in 64. Mine is a 62 and I know of other 62-63 that have the same as the one shown in the video.
Seems like they changed a lot in 64’, including the window shape.
What a couple of cuties you have 😘
You should see their mom!!!!
Oh dude you gave me a scare pulling the prop around.. absolutely do not rotate it like that! Many die all the time due this if that mag is not ground. My DPE used to research those accidents.
Yea, I knew I messed up there! I heard the click and thought…quit doing dumb stuff to try and get better video. It won’t happen again…thanks for holding me accountable!!!
The mag shouldn't fire if the prop is spun backwards. The impulse coupling is designed to only engage when rotating the direction the engine spins while running.
Agreed, which is why I spun it backwards at first…but then I went back the other way like a dummy!
About once a month do a mag ground check. While the engine is running at about 800 to 1000 RPM quickly turn your mags from run to off, then back on. The engine will run very ruff and back to smooth. Watch the Rod Machado’s Video on the AOPA Flying Safe website about this check.
Roger that James, I’ll check out the video.