Mooney U/C Lever

[BEXIL160]

Hello all,

Sat in a nice looking Mooney M20 today, but am puzzled by the .. ahem.. Undercarriage Lever.

Beneath the throttle and prop controls, is a large vertical tubular bar with a red metal pate on top of it. This, my guide told me is the U/C lever. And lever it is.

Question. How does it work then? Manual hydraulics?


Can some wise soul let me know please

Thanks.

BEX

P.S. Went to Kerville Tx. once, in the mid 1990s and went round the Mooney factory. Don't remember big U/c levers.