Except, NEVER in the clouds at night!

From another M20J driver. BTW, have you noticed in a group of pilots
it's easy to tell Mooney pilots? We're the ones with the big grins. In
the early 70s, when we flew Rangers, we were the ones with will
developed right arms (if you didn't drop the nose a little at the right
time getting the manual gear up was worse than a one armed pullup).