Practicing Chewing Gum

"Jerry can't fly and chew gum at the same time."

....That's the feeling I got after my last lesson. Yesterday I went
out to the
airport. CFII was busy, couldn't practice "flying", but I darn well
could get
better at chewing gum. That is, all the other stuff that you do to
fly IFR. Besides flying the plane, that is.

I hooked up a battery charger to the external power jack, got my
approach
plate book and fired up the radios. Using the approach plates as a
checklist,
I practiced setting up the radios for approaches. "Let's try the Oak
27L ILS..." Set NAV1, twist in the inbound heading, etc etc.

I used the following "standards":

* NAV1 for the approach course
* NAV2 for the missed.
* COM1 for Approach, with the second freq for the Tower.
* COM2 for the ATIS
* Use the approach plate as a checklist, from the top of the plate to
the bottom

....After doing ten or twenty of those in quick succession ( really, I
lost count ) I found my gumchewing skills much improved.

- Jerry Kaidor ( tr2 com jerry )