Organizational Skills Required During Instrument Flight

It's not just you, we post because we learn from each other as well.
You're a low time pilot seeing things with unbiased eyes so you may
see thigs others of us have overlooked. Post your comments about your
discoveries, you may help some of us learn from your experiences.


On Feb 20, 8:59 am, wrote:
On Feb 18, 8:33 pm, wrote:





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? Where do you keep the charts, approach plates, and
scratch paper? How many people write down every clearance, heading,
altitude and frequency change? How do you keep from dropping your pen
(or pencil)? Is it on a string? Where do you put in when not in
use? Velcro? Your pocket?

I've read the books, but I just wonder how people cope in real life.
Rod Machado talks about using a clipboard (with extra clips on the 3
other sides) in his excellent training manual. This seems like a good
idea to me.

Steve
PP ASEL
Instrument student

Thanks to everyone who offered up so many great ideas! This seems to
be a very individual thing, but it's great to have so many workable
ideas to choose from.

I've only been posting for less than a week, but I have found this
group to be invaluable! It's amazing to me that so many folks with
common interests are willing to provide thoughtful responses to a
perfect stranger (me)! I really appreciate it!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Tony wrote:
It's not just you, we post because we learn from each other as well.
You're a low time pilot seeing things with unbiased eyes so you may
see thigs others of us have overlooked. Post your comments about your
discoveries, you may help some of us learn from your experiences.


Absolutely. I've been flying since 1978 but most of it was alone. Many of the
things I do I dreamed up myself. This is an invaluable source of fresh ideas.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

Roy Smith wrote:
...
The kneeboard thing might make sense in a single-seat fighter, but I don't
fly single-seat fighters.

[Slightly-off-topic] I tried using kneeboards in my (non-IFR)
training. I think they would be very good in an center stick
airplane, (with or without a right seat), they are a nuisance in the
garden variety yoke-equipped ones.

Roberto Waltman

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On Feb 20, 8:59 am, wrote:
On Feb 18, 8:33 pm, wrote:





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? Where do you keep the charts, approach plates, and
scratch paper? How many people write down every clearance, heading,
altitude and frequency change? How do you keep from dropping your pen
(or pencil)? Is it on a string? Where do you put in when not in
use? Velcro? Your pocket?

I've read the books, but I just wonder how people cope in real life.
Rod Machado talks about using a clipboard (with extra clips on the 3
other sides) in his excellent training manual. This seems like a good
idea to me.

Steve
PP ASEL
Instrument student

Thanks to everyone who offered up so many great ideas! This seems to
be a very individual thing, but it's great to have so many workable
ideas to choose from.

I've only been posting for less than a week, but I have found this
group to be invaluable! It's amazing to me that so many folks with
common interests are willing to provide thoughtful responses to a
perfect stranger (me)! I really appreciate it!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Glad you find it useful. Stick around as much as you can, and the
questions people ask here will keep you sharp. I can say for sure that
I have learned more from here than from any other source. Once in a
while there will be some ballyhoo over someone or something, and
people will threaten to leave. There will be a mass exodus, and then
fresh blood with flow in and everything will be better than before.
Several of us have been sticking around here for more than a decade,
and the reason we keep coming back is because it is like taking a
refresher course, for free.

On Feb 20, 10:08 am, "Andrew Sarangan" wrote:
On Feb 20, 8:59 am, wrote:



On Feb 18, 8:33 pm, wrote:

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? Where do you keep the charts, approach plates, and
scratch paper? How many people write down every clearance, heading,
altitude and frequency change? How do you keep from dropping your pen
(or pencil)? Is it on a string? Where do you put in when not in
use? Velcro? Your pocket?

I've read the books, but I just wonder how people cope in real life.
Rod Machado talks about using a clipboard (with extra clips on the 3
other sides) in his excellent training manual. This seems like a good
idea to me.

Steve
PP ASEL
Instrument student

Thanks to everyone who offered up so many great ideas! This seems to
be a very individual thing, but it's great to have so many workable
ideas to choose from.

I've only been posting for less than a week, but I have found this
group to be invaluable! It's amazing to me that so many folks with
common interests are willing to provide thoughtful responses to a
perfect stranger (me)! I really appreciate it!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Glad you find it useful. Stick around as much as you can, and the
questions people ask here will keep you sharp. I can say for sure that
I have learned more from here than from any other source. Once in a
while there will be some ballyhoo over someone or something, and
people will threaten to leave. There will be a mass exodus, and then
fresh blood with flow in and everything will be better than before.
Several of us have been sticking around here for more than a decade,
and the reason we keep coming back is because it is like taking a
refresher course, for free.

Andrew,

I just wanted to let you know how useful your article was on VOR
interpretation. It sure is a different (and easier) approach to the
subject! Now I'm exploring the other aviation areas of your excellent
website.

Thanks!

Steve Job

wrote:
On Feb 20, 10:08 am, "Andrew Sarangan" wrote:

On Feb 20, 8:59 am, wrote:




On Feb 18, 8:33 pm, wrote:

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? Where do you keep the charts, approach plates, and
scratch paper? How many people write down every clearance, heading,
altitude and frequency change? How do you keep from dropping your pen
(or pencil)? Is it on a string? Where do you put in when not in
use? Velcro? Your pocket?

I've read the books, but I just wonder how people cope in real life.
Rod Machado talks about using a clipboard (with extra clips on the 3
other sides) in his excellent training manual. This seems like a good
idea to me.

Steve
PP ASEL
Instrument student

Thanks to everyone who offered up so many great ideas! This seems to
be a very individual thing, but it's great to have so many workable
ideas to choose from.

I've only been posting for less than a week, but I have found this
group to be invaluable! It's amazing to me that so many folks with
common interests are willing to provide thoughtful responses to a
perfect stranger (me)! I really appreciate it!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Glad you find it useful. Stick around as much as you can, and the
questions people ask here will keep you sharp. I can say for sure that
I have learned more from here than from any other source. Once in a
while there will be some ballyhoo over someone or something, and
people will threaten to leave. There will be a mass exodus, and then
fresh blood with flow in and everything will be better than before.
Several of us have been sticking around here for more than a decade,
and the reason we keep coming back is because it is like taking a
refresher course, for free.


Andrew,

I just wanted to let you know how useful your article was on VOR
interpretation. It sure is a different (and easier) approach to the
subject! Now I'm exploring the other aviation areas of your excellent
website.

Thanks!

Steve Job


Another neat VOR simulator is http://www.visi.com/~mim/nav/index.html.
It has been around a long time.

--

Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI

"Andrew Sarangan" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I have learned more from here than from any other source. Once in a
while there will be some ballyhoo over someone or something, and
people will threaten to leave. There will be a mass exodus, and then

Yeah, this is especially true when the religious arguments start up. You
know, like:
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Hi-wing or low-wing.
Slips with flaps.

;-)))

--
Michael Nouak
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like:
Hi-wing or low-wing.
Slips with flaps.

Did the flappers even wear slips?

Jose
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follow something, be it a leader, a creed, or a mob. Whosoever fully
understands this holds the world in his hands.
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On Feb 20, 1:57 pm, Jose wrote:
like:
Hi-wing or low-wing.
Slips with flaps.

Did the flappers even wear slips?

Jose
--
Humans are pack animals. Above all things, they have a deep need to
follow something, be it a leader, a creed, or a mob. Whosoever fully
understands this holds the world in his hands.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Wrong thread, Jose!

Get thee behind me, mentioning alternate wing positions in the same
sentence. There are two common posiitons -- Low, and other. Low wings
are for manly pilots, who don't mind getting wet when it rains or
having the PX sit in the puddle that might have accumulated on the
right seat, crawling under the thing to check fuel, and -- I could go
on and on listing the advantanges, but top this: name a single high
wing SEL that has its tail on the correct way, like my Mooney does.

So there.

I have to go now and practice turns around a tie down.


On Feb 20, 1:51 pm, "Michael Nouak" wrote:
"Andrew Sarangan" schrieb im Newsbeitragnews:1171987713.455509.137740@t69g2000c wt.googlegroups.com...

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I have learned more from here than from any other source. Once in a
while there will be some ballyhoo over someone or something, and
people will threaten to leave. There will be a mass exodus, and then

Yeah, this is especially true when the religious arguments start up. You
know, like:
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Hi-wing or low-wing.
Slips with flaps.

;-)))

--
Michael Nouak
remove "nospamfor" to reply: