Checklist acronyms and sayings

flyingcheesehead

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The discussion of "GUMPS" in the complex thread got me thinking about this again. What memory devices do y'all use in the air?

Here are my favorites:

GUMPS (of course):

Gas (tank/pump)
Undercarriage (down or welded)
Mixture (rich)
Prop (full forward as appropriate)
Switches (landing light, etc.) and Seat Belts

For a go-around or missed approach:

Climb it, (Full power, carb heat off, pitch up)
Clean it, (Flaps, gear, flaps, flaps)
Cool it, and (Cowl flaps open)
Call it. ("Podunk Traffic, N12345 going around" or "Muni Tower, N12345 missed")

Preparing for an approach: PAIN CALL

Position (Where am I? What am I doing next?)
ATIS (or AWOS, etc... Get the weather)
Instruments (Set DG and Altimeter)
Nav radios (TITS sub-checklist)
- Tune
- Identify (switch Nav# on audio panel, verify correct Morse ID)
- Twist (OBS to proper course)
- Set Markers (for ILS)
Com radios (Center/Approach on #1, Tower on standby or Tower/CTAF on #2)
Approach briefing
Landing checklist (GUMPS)
Listen (for approach clearance)

Callouts for the approach: Localizer alive, Glideslope alive, 500, 200, and 100 feet for each descent, and DH/MAP.

And, of course, the 5 T's. Turn, Time, Twist, Throttle, Talk.

My cruise checklist isn't so much a memory device as an "I already have it memorized anyway" type of thing. Trim, Time, Lights, Pump, Power, Mixture, Compass, Cowl flaps. I recite this when I'm done actually doing it to make sure I didn't miss anything. I memorized it because if I pull out a checklist at that point, I seem to always drift high.

I also do a GUMPS, 5T's, and "Lights, Camera, Action" for takeoff after briefing the takeoff. ("Camera" being the transponder.) On the roll, it's "airspeed alive" and "engine gauges in the green" callouts.

So, what others do you use? Any callouts?
 
"I hope I took the towbar off," when rolling.
 
Actually one of my favorites is for an engine failure checklist at altitude, taught to me by a Canadian Airforce instructor (ret.)

Fracking (not the word he used) - Fuel - selector, pump, primer locked.
Motor - Mixture
Can't - Carb heat/alternate air
Stop - Spark

Said it comes very naturally when it happens. Worked well when the 172 swallowed a valve during a training flight.

Joe
 
Engine Failure, Multi-engine, as provided by a jump pilot, IIRC:

Firewall everything
Undercarriage-up
Comfirm dead engine
Kill dead engine

Mags off
Electrical off (alternators & switches)


The acronym is obvious, and usually already being chanted, shouted, whatever.
 
Ed Guthrie said:
Engine Failure, Multi-engine, as provided by a jump pilot, IIRC:

***

The acronym is obvious, and usually already being chanted, shouted, whatever.
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OMG, that's a great one. I have to use that.
 
i love it! will begin teaching that to all of my students
 
ejensen said:
Are there mnemonics to remember mnemonics?
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No kidding.

I find it so much easier to just know the actual sequence of events blindfolded and by touch. When X happens, I do 12345 in that order. When Y happens, I do 6873 in that order. The convoluted acronymns just mess me up and eat up time trying to remember what the second duplicated letter in a strange disconnected word is supposed to be.

Besides, I have yet to run across two instructors in a row that want me to use the same acronymn and they get annoyed when I use the wrong one for the same exact steps.
 
Six approaches
Holding
Intercepting
Tracking

"If you haven't done **** for six months, you can't fly IFR"
 
Areeda said:
engine failure
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Oooh, forgot that one. ALARMS:

Airspeed - Vg
Landing area - choose
Airstart - attempt to restart in the air. Mixture, mags, carb heat, fuel tank
Radios - 121.5 and 7700
Mayday - broadcst
Secure aircraft - mixture cutoff, mags off, master off, fuel off
 
All very good acronyms already posted, but I'll post this one that I learned from a CFI for the take-off checklist (don't take offense pelase):

Transponder
Instruments
Time
Strobes

Enjoy,
Jason
 
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fgcason said:
No kidding.
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You got my drift! I used some during training. As you say, somtimes required by instructors. But usefullness faded as the hours built. You can spend more time remembering the aid and its meaning.
 
HPNPilot1200 said:
All very good acronyms already posted, but I'll post this one that I learned from a CFI for the take-off checklist (don't take offense pelase):

Transponder
Instruments
Time
Strobes
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Well, since that's the same as the sub-checklist for the nav radios on an instrument approach, I guess you could say that pilots like TITS. :yes: :rofl:
 
fgcason said:
No kidding.

I find it so much easier to just know the actual sequence of events blindfolded and by touch. When X happens, I do 12345 in that order. When Y happens, I do 6873 in that order. The convoluted acronymns just mess me up and eat up time trying to remember what the second duplicated letter in a strange disconnected word is supposed to be.

Besides, I have yet to run across two instructors in a row that want me to use the same acronymn and they get annoyed when I use the wrong one for the same exact steps.
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Me too!!
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Oooh, forgot that one. ALARMS:

Airspeed - Vg
Landing area - choose
Airstart - attempt to restart in the air. Mixture, mags, carb heat, fuel tank
Radios - 121.5 and 7700
Mayday - broadcst
Secure aircraft - mixture cutoff, mags off, master off, fuel off
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I always used ABCD

Airspeed
Best Field
Cockpit Check
Distress Call
 
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