Acronyms!!

EdFred

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I'd like to put together a collection of our acronyms. I was trying to come up with a good mental takeoff checklist as a cover in case you missed an item on the written checklist and started thinking about how to get something easy to remember and came up with:

WHAT I MISS ?

Winds
Heading Indicator
Altimeter
Trim

Identify (squawk code - and make sure it's on)

Mixture
Instruments
Switches
Seat Belts

What else do we have in the POA collection?
 
I do not use any paper checklists and never have. I will look them over the first time I fly a new airplane. I do more of a flow style checklist and essentially look at every instrument on the panel and ask myself if that is what it should say. They key is to ask yourself. Don't just look at it. I often do this verbally.

Controls includes trim
Instruments
Gas
Altimeter
Runup
Seatbelt / Cabin Secure

Upon crossing onto runway:
Lights - Lights as applicable
Camera - Transponder and Clearance
Action - Let'er Rip. Verify expected takeoff power

Carb Heat
Gas
Undercarriage
Mixture
Props
Seatbelt / Cabin Secure

I don't fly IFR. I'll probably modify some of this when I start to.
 
Some of those Acronyms suck - especially "tempfish" how many ms was that?
 
Well yeah, a lot of them suck.

The best one by far is Ed Guthrie's one for engine out in a multi.
 
M.U.G.

Mnemonics are
Useless
Gimmicks

I just learn the procedures and checklists. I find it takes more work to memorize a mnemonic than to just memorize the procedure itself.
 
I once got a letter from a guy who'd added items to the GUMP check, and over time it became GUMMPCPPGPFLCC. I don't still have the letter. I wish I could remember what it all was.
 
My single engine emergencies is ABC

Airspeed appropriate for emergency
Best place to land
Checklist.
 
My favorite is for instrument approaches:

Position - Where am I, and what's happening next? Kick-start situational awareness.
ATIS(/AWOS/whatever weather)
Instruments - set altimeter, set DG to compass
Nav radios - Set up everything possible. Nav1, Nav2, GPS, DME, ADF.
Com radios - Ready tower/CTAF in com1 standby or com2
Approach briefing - Altitudes, headings, everything else on the plate.
Landing checklist - GUMPSS
Listen for your approach clearance.

Oh, and speaking of Nav radios... TITS!

Tune
Identify
Twist OBS
Set markers

And of course, GUMPSS.

Gas - proper tank, pump on if req.
Undercarriage - Down and locked, tires checked if visible
Mixture - Rich or as appropriate
Prop - Full forward when below governing range
Switches - Landing lights on
Seat belts and doors - secure.

The four C's, for go-arounds and missed approaches:

Climb it - full power, pitch up
Clean it - flaps, gear, flaps, flaps
Cool it - Cowl flaps open
Call it - radio call to tower/CTAF/Center

Pre-takeoff, I do three things which are kinda redundant but get everything done: GUMPSS (tank/pump, three greens showing, set, forward, switches/belts/doors); Lights-Camera-Action (lights on, txp ALT, call tower/CTAF) and then the 5 T's as I'm pulling on the runway. Turn onto the runway, Time off, Twist heading bug and double-check runway heading, Talk to CTAF, Throttle up.

On the takeoff roll, call out airspeed alive and engine gauges green.

I like Ed's multi-engine thing too, but I can't remember what it all stands for any more.
 
yea, Kent is the acronym king. Flying with him was fascinating.
 
From Sporty's Practical Aimanship DVD:

I Can Fly This Puppy



Instruments
Controls
Fuel
Trim
Prop
 
flyingcheesehead said:
I like Ed's multi-engine thing too, but I can't remember what it all stands for any more.
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An acronym that you can't remember what it stands for is pretty useful.
Climb it - full power, pitch up
Clean it - flaps, gear, flaps, flaps
Cool it - Cowl flaps open
Call it - radio call to tower/CTAF/Center
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You forgot "Crash it" when you need to think about the acronym when an immediate go-around is required.
 
kevin47881 said:
7 P's

Pee (to keep it G rated) Poor Prior Planning Prevents Peak Performance :)
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Hmm I thought the seven P's were

1. Pee before I leave for the airport
2. Pee when I get there
3. Pee right after I get my WX briefing
4. Pee after pre-flight
5. Pax Pee: make sure my PAX pee before we get in the plane.
6. Pee Again: As long as they are going I might as well pee again too
7. Please stop Peeing and get int he Plane.
 
midlifeflyer said:
An acronym that you can't remember what it stands for is pretty useful.
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I haven't committed it to memory because, well, I haven't gotten to the point of doing engine failures in a multi.

You forgot "Crash it" when you need to think about the acronym when an immediate go-around is required.
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That one is committed to memory, no thinking required.
 
smigaldi said:
Hmm I thought the seven P's were

1. Pee before I leave for the airport
2. Pee when I get there
3. Pee right after I get my WX briefing
4. Pee after pre-flight
5. Pax Pee: make sure my PAX pee before we get in the plane.
6. Pee Again: As long as they are going I might as well pee again too
7. Please stop Peeing and get int he Plane.
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Well yeah, those too :p
 
Types of Fog Memory Aid:
"Fog usually seems present after rain"
Upslope
Steam
Precipitation-Induced
Advection
Radiation
 
This from the DPE who did my RH checkride and later did some of my R44 transition training:

S (Starter light out)
O (Oil pressure in green)
A (Alternator switch on)
C (Clutch switch in engaged position, warning light on)

Also from him, but not really an acronym: 1-2-3

The conditions required to enter a vortex ring state which is pretty much the helicopter equivalent to a stall spin in a fixed wing on the base to final
turn (both being likely to kill you):

1 - (Airspeed 10 KIAS or less, ie. out of effective translational lift)
2 - (20% power or more in a turbine, some power required in a piston)
3 - (300 fpm or greater descent rate)

All of these must be true for it to happen. I've done practice recoveries with a CFI -- the bottom drops out very quickly.
 
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smigaldi said:
M.U.G.

Mnemonics are
Useless
Gimmicks

I just learn the procedures and checklists. I find it takes more work to memorize a mnemonic than to just memorize the procedure itself.
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I have to agree, my mind doesn't work that way either, and mnemonics have never helped me.

My wife was upset because I didn't have her number programmed into my cell phone. My explanation was, "First, programming it is a pain in the neck, then it takes more than seven keystrokes to scroll through the phone's memory, and besides, I know your number." She was not impressed; I was expected to have some clever way to dial her but I use the old fashioned way. Just dial it.
 
smigaldi said:
Hmm I thought the seven P's were

1. Pee before I leave for the airport
2. Pee when I get there
3. Pee right after I get my WX briefing
4. Pee after pre-flight
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5. Pee after loading the plane.
6. Pee again just to make sure.
Then one last pee check after runup. You never know.
...and even then you can find yourself pulling the mixture on rollout and everyone evacuating to the bushes (if they can make it that far) after landing before the plane comes to a complete stop...

As for the rest of the totally unrelated to what I'm doing mnemonics, they confuse me more than help so I don't use them. They always leave stuff out or screw up a sequence and make it awkward somehow. I learn the systems and use that. (you're landing, verify a good fuel supply going to the engine, move the lever if necessary. need the fuel pump on, flip the pump switch, verify pressure, continue) Eventually it becomes muscle memory and your hand knows where to go next without trying to remember what the 6th C in the silly phrase is supposed to be.
 
smigaldi said:
Hmm I thought the seven P's were

1. Pee before I leave for the airport
2. Pee when I get there
3. Pee right after I get my WX briefing
4. Pee after pre-flight
5. Pax Pee: make sure my PAX pee before we get in the plane.
6. Pee Again: As long as they are going I might as well pee again too
7. Please stop Peeing and get int he Plane.
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And, then if you're a private pilot, you can call yourself "PP"... :D
 
Oh, here's a true and funny story from three weeks ago:

I'm on a X-C to Santa Fe, N.M. (KSAF) with Henning, who's on his odyssey from Australia to Florida.

We both have to pee real bad.

We hit the Direct button on the GPS, and spot a desolate airstrip directly below.

Emergency descent! Power to idle. We spiral down right over the airport. Land hot and fast. Doors spring open just as prop stops. We race to the FBO.

Guy in trucker hat looms over the counter as we head to the restroom: "Sorry guys, restroom's closed for maintenance."

We dance a jig and run in a half circle in the lobby.

Finally, we burst out the front door and head to the nearest bushes.

Trucker-hat guy starts laughing, and races out to catch us: "Hey, boys, I was just kidding. We get that a lot around here -- pilots landing just for the restroom. Go on in -- restrooms are fine."
 
PHXAvi8tor said:
Oh, here's a true and funny story from three weeks ago:

...

Emergency descent! Power to idle. We spiral down right over the airport. Land hot and fast. Doors spring open just as prop stops. We race to the FBO.

Guy in trucker hat looms over the counter as we head to the restroom: "Sorry guys, restroom's closed for maintenance."

We dance a jig and run in a half circle in the lobby.

Finally, we burst out the front door and head to the nearest bushes.

Trucker-hat guy starts laughing, and races out to catch us: "Hey, boys, I was just kidding. We get that a lot around here -- pilots landing just for the restroom. Go on in -- restrooms are fine."
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:rofl: Classic, funny story! That guy has a mean streak. You don't mess with the impaired.
 
flyingcheesehead said:
I haven't committed it to memory because, well, I haven't gotten to the point of doing engine failures in a multi.
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Say again?:confused: :confused: :confused: Didn't you say you were flying a Seneca??? What are you doing while you're training in a twin then???
 
IFR Clearance

Clearance limit
Route
Altitude
Frequency
Transponder squalk code

VOR check

Dog Poop Bear S***
Date
Place
Bearing of error
Signature

Approach pre landing

Gas
Undercarriage
Mixture
Prop
Swithces/Seatbelt
Avionics
Altimeter
Carb heat
 
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