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!

Great looking family.

Good video. My preflight is almost identical.

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 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.

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.

I reckon you did a good job of it . That is a neat looking Cessna parked next to yours. Thanks

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!!

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!

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.

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.

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.

What a couple of cuties you have 😘

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.