JediNein

While I strive to make the best checklists possible, nothing beats a checklist customized to the planes and how you fly, which is why I've made my iPad versions customizable and, most importantly, saved through updates. The best checklist is worth nothing if it remains unused.

Howdy again, I really didn't come on here to sell anything, rather ensure that what I am creating is the best possible product. Yes, I am creating these for the iPad as well as print checklists.

Are you in San Francisco proper or more towards San Jose? If San Jose, I know an excellent instructor there who has trained dozens of aircraft owner pilots from zero hours to their certificates in the high performance hot rods including Mooneys. It can be done and done safely with an experienced flight instructor who can see your mistakes coming and is able to prevent them from causing aircraft damage. Absolutely learn in the plane you will own. You will be far more experienced in it when you are flying solo and with passengers, and you have the benefit of making the new-in-type mistakes with an instructor who can show you how to correct and prevent those mistakes. If you find an instructor that doesn't know how to land a Mooney safely, nor teach you how to land without flat-spotting tires, porposing, and other costly mistakes, this will not go well and you are better off learning in someone else's plane. Welcome to the aviation world!

Howdy folks, thanks for the responses! Don't worry, I won't tell any significant others about being wrong, we'll put them in the "learn something new every day" category. The "exhaust piper" was a line in an old 3rd party checklist I had laying around. I didn't remember seeing one when I flew a 1964 model M20C but I didn't fly anything newer until an M20J then the M201TN and those didn't have exhaust gizmos. My purpose is currently purely selfish, I'm working on some new checklists that have more than the owner's manual fifeteen pages of how to wash the things and two on how to fly it. I'm aiming for a more airline-style set that has the short checklist for those that are flying more than once a month plus the "quick reference": book-style checklist for those that like expanded emergency procedures and a detailed preflight. Once I get the bugs worked out, I'm going to be even more selfish and ask if anyone here would be interested in proofreading the finished checklist in exchange for a free copy of it.

Does the Mooney M20C Mark 21 have an "exhaust piper"? How about a fuel gascolator drain in the engine access compartment? Finally, is there a pitot-static system drain as there is in the Piper Warrior series? Thanks in advance for any responses. My memory of the type is rustier than I'd like.