Thread: Organizational Skills Required During Instrument Flight
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Old February 19th 07, 05:41 AM posted to rec.aviation.student,rec.aviation.ifr
Mortimer Schnerd, RN[_2_]
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Default Organizational Skills Required During Instrument Flight
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What methods do you deploy? How many folks use a kneeboard? What
kind of timer (analog or digital stopwatch) do you use, and where do
you put it?


I've got a kneeboard that I bolted an analog stopwatch to (on the clip). As for
pens, I carry a couple in my shirt pocket, and about a half dozen more in my
flight case. For night flights, I keep a mini maglite in my shirt pocket... the
one that takes the AAA batteries.... as I can hold it in my mouth if need be
until I have something better worked out. Two additional lights in the flight
case.

As for clearances, I write the original one. After that I usually just go by
memory unless there's a multipart change or I'm in an unfamiliar area where I
don't know where places are without resorting to a chart. But I seldom write
down a frequency, heading or altitude change. I can keep them in my head.

Flip flop radios are particularly handy for frequency changes: old frequency on
one side, new on the other. If nobody's at home on the new, just flip it back
to the old.

I keep my flight case between the seats or on the unoccupied front seat if I'm
alone.




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