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ON the MAPA list today another M20J owner had the fuel line break behind the instrument panel and dump avgas all over the inside of his plane. Earlier this year it happened to another MAPA list pilot. It also happened to my lawyer a few years back on his M20F. This hose runs from the firewall to the fuel pressure gauge. Starting in 1978 (24-0377) Mooney replaced this fuel line in the cockpit with an electric gauge with the transducer mounted forward of the firewall. Older airplanes have this hose to a mechanical fuel pressure gauge. Its not an "on condition" hose like the teflon hoses. Some of these hoses are approaching 50 years in service. Curiously, they kept the nearly the same 45" long hose from the fuel servo to the transducer, rather than mount the transducer on or near the servo. P/N is 156003-3S-0210, or basically, a -3 braided hose with straight ends on it, 21" long. I got mine from Guy Ginbey for 110$, PHT is the same. I checked the date on ours, its 1982. New one is sitting in a box to be put on when I get home again. Please check the PT date on your hose before it happens to you. (text from MAPA list) Well that was lovely. The fuel line to the pressure gauge in our M20J (or maybe the gauge itself) failed dripping/pouring a large amount of fuel onto the copilot and carpet. We were climbing through about 2,000' on the way to Palo Alto having just completed a practice ILS into Livermore. Needless to say, we declared an emergency and got on the ground in Livermore as soon as we could, but I was sure watching that fuel drip/leak and hoping (a lot!) that there were no sources of spark anywhere around! Fortunately winds were light (although directly across the runway) in Livermore tonight, unlike almost every other airport around.

Sometimes laser-pointer idiots do get caught! Here is a fantastic video of some dOOd with a laser pointer getting arrested. Glad they caught this one. Note that it was "A Florida Man". http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2020/01/he-pointed-laser-at-airplanes-landing.html I have never been lased that I know of, and hope I never am.