Housekeeping chores

Enroute and in between approaches, they say if you aren't doing something,
you've forgotten something.
I've come across a few checklists on the web that include a few items to
check enroute, and I'd like to get a feel for what you folks here feel are
your best enroute "housekeeping chores".
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Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino
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Wizard of Draws wrote:

Enroute and in between approaches, they say if you aren't doing something,
you've forgotten something.
I've come across a few checklists on the web that include a few items to
check enroute, and I'd like to get a feel for what you folks here feel are
your best enroute "housekeeping chores".

Filing Skyspotter PIREPS (which includes calculating winds aloft using
GPS), receiving weather, PIREPS, and updated radar images for remaining
route and destination, comparing actual weather to forecast, comparing
planned to actual fuel burn, calculating remaining fuel, briefing the
approach, and calculating time needed to descend (in order to call ATC
and ask for lower by if they don't offer it by a certain point).

I am not saying this is the best; rather these are the tasks I do at
this stage of my experience while en route.

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Study my Garmin 530 manual and learn three more things it does. Or do a VOR
cross check. Or total up the columns in my log book. Or trim fingernails,
finish the crossword puzzle. If it is a real cross country you have plenty
of dead time.

"Wizard of Draws" wrote in message
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Enroute and in between approaches, they say if you aren't doing something,
you've forgotten something.
I've come across a few checklists on the web that include a few items to
check enroute, and I'd like to get a feel for what you folks here feel are
your best enroute "housekeeping chores".
--
Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino
Cartoons with a Touch of Magic�
www.wizardofdraws.com
www.cartoonclipart.com

Enroute and in between approaches, they say if you aren't doing something,
you've forgotten something.

Unless you're solid IMC, it might be a good idea to look out the
window now and then.

vince norris

Study my Garmin 530 manual and learn three more things it does. Or do a VOR
cross check. Or total up the columns in my log book. Or trim fingernails,
finish the crossword puzzle. If it is a real cross country you have plenty
of dead time.

You are either a super pilot or have a autopilot.

What's wrong with sitting back and enjoying the flight?


(Hankal) wrote in
:

Study my Garmin 530 manual and learn three more things it does. Or do
a VOR cross check. Or total up the columns in my log book. Or trim
fingernails, finish the crossword puzzle. If it is a real cross
country you have plenty of dead time.

You are either a super pilot or have a autopilot.

Are you kidding? The autopilot is a go/no-go item.

"Hankal" wrote in message
...
Study my Garmin 530 manual and learn three more things it does. Or do a
VOR
cross check. Or total up the columns in my log book. Or trim
fingernails,
finish the crossword puzzle. If it is a real cross country you have
plenty
of dead time.

You are either a super pilot or have a autopilot.

On 4/2/04 10:55 AM, in article ,
"vincent p. norris" wrote:

Enroute and in between approaches, they say if you aren't doing something,
you've forgotten something.

Unless you're solid IMC, it might be a good idea to look out the
window now and then.

vince norris

Absolutely. That's one of the primary reasons I love to fly: the view. But
right now I'm winding up my IFR training and so far, there hasn't been a lot
of 'enroute' time to think about housekeeping. Just fly the missed and
immediately set up for the next approach.
Tomorrow we're scheduled for the long XC to Knoxville, TN, so I'll have a
bit of time to keep house, but no view since I'll be under the hood.
--
Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino
Cartoons with a Touch of Magic�
www.wizardofdraws.com
www.cartoonclipart.com

Good luck on the long XC. Hope for clouds. Half of mine was in and out
of the clouds, which required the hood. 1/4 was above the deck (great
view of a US Air Dash-8 breaking through the undercast, then holding at
5000' while we passed over). 1/4 of the trip was in solid IFR. Great
experience and easier IMHO than using the hood.

Wizard of Draws wrote:
On 4/2/04 10:55 AM, in article ,
"vincent p. norris" wrote:


Enroute and in between approaches, they say if you aren't doing something,
you've forgotten something.

Unless you're solid IMC, it might be a good idea to look out the
window now and then.

vince norris


Absolutely. That's one of the primary reasons I love to fly: the view. But
right now I'm winding up my IFR training and so far, there hasn't been a lot
of 'enroute' time to think about housekeeping. Just fly the missed and
immediately set up for the next approach.
Tomorrow we're scheduled for the long XC to Knoxville, TN, so I'll have a
bit of time to keep house, but no view since I'll be under the hood.


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Dan Thompson wrote:
Are you kidding? The autopilot is a go/no-go item.

"Hankal" wrote in message
...

Study my Garmin 530 manual and learn three more things it does. Or do a

VOR

cross check. Or total up the columns in my log book. Or trim

fingernails,

finish the crossword puzzle. If it is a real cross country you have

plenty

of dead time.

You are either a super pilot or have a autopilot.




What's an autopilot? :-)

Matt