Dear YKF flight instructors

[Colonel Sanders]

What's the problem with using it as a 'do' list?

Please don't abuse (and misrepresent)
a "do list" as a real checklist.

A checklist is a brief list of critical items
to check.

What you guys are writing, is a "How to Fly"
book. I might humbly opine that if one
needs a "How to Fly" book in the airplane
to correctly operate it, that one needs more
ground and remedial flight training before
they are ready to fly solo. You don't have
sufficient grasp of the fundamentals of your
aircraft systems.

When you contaminate a real checklist with
other "how to fly" items, you intentionally
obscure what is important, and thusly try
to create an accident.

I checked out a couple guys in their new
homebuilt recently. They showed up with
a checklist (a "how to fly" book) as thick as
a Stephen King paperback (and about as weird).

I gently took it from them and placed it in
the back, and told them we were going to
use a cockpit flow and LOOK OUTSIDE instead
of trying to read a "How to fly" book in the
airplane.

My apologies to anyone if this offends their
"Must Read A Book In the Airplane" religion
which has many acolytes.

[Old Dog Flying]

Thread Drift!



Thread Drift!


Who cares about bloody check lists!

[Colonel Sanders]

Who cares about bloody check lists!

Indeed.

[photofly]

for people who don't care about something, you sure spend a long time discussing them!

[Colonel Sanders]

Obscenely long checklist are like dog poo.

I don't care for them, but when I end
up in close proximity to them, I care about
them!

Anyways, a big round of applause for Jim Dow,
who nutured the "How To Fly" book religion
into what it is today - unassailable.

[Old Dog Flying]

For most basic a/c I use a flow through Left to Right check from memory but if I'm flying a new/strange machine, I'll use and abbreviated c/l.

But again what has this got to do with cross country circuits?

As one poster said; this instructor got it from his instructor who got it from his instructor who.........you get the downward drift? It is time to get back to the basics of teaching someone to FLY and not be a glass panel manager in the circuit!

[Colonel Sanders]

get back to the basics of teaching someone to FLY

Couldn't agree more, but I'm afraid that there
is precious little interest any more, in fundamental
stick & rudder skills, and systems knowledge.

People just want to dress up in a white shirt and
hold a thick book, just like they think airline pilots
do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult#Post-war

With the end of the war, the military abandoned the airbases and stopped dropping cargo. In response, charismatic individuals developed cults among remote Melanesian populations that promised to bestow on their followers deliveries of food, arms, Jeeps, etc.

The cult leaders explained that the cargo would be gifts from their own ancestors, or other sources, as had occurred with the outsider armies.

In attempts to get cargo to fall by parachute or land in planes or ships again, islanders imitated the same practices they had seen the soldiers, sailors, and airmen use. Cult behaviors usually involved mimicking the day-to-day activities and dress styles of US soldiers, such as performing parade ground drills with wooden or salvaged rifles.

The islanders carved headphones from wood and wore them while sitting in fabricated control towers. They waved the landing signals while standing on the runways. They lit signal fires and torches to light up runways and lighthouses.

In a form of sympathetic magic, many built life-size replicas of aeroplanes out of straw and cut new military-style landing strips out of the jungle, hoping to attract more aeroplanes. The cult members thought that the foreigners had some special connection to the deities and ancestors of the natives, who were the only beings powerful enough to produce such riches.

[Trapon]

everyone that fly a Cessna think they are flying one of these




....weekend warriors