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 )

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Jerry Kaidor wrote:
I practiced setting up the radios for approaches. "Let's try the Oak
27L ILS..." Set NAV1, twist in the inbound heading, etc etc.

Set, twist and ident.

And hey, while you're there, do a VOT check and log it.

I used the following "standards":

* NAV1 for the approach course
* NAV2 for the missed.

Sometimes you'll need it for other things. Look at the HIO ILS 12,
for example. You need the LOC and BTG to identify the fixes, but
the missed is a hold at UBG. You'll want UBG on a standby.

* Use the approach plate as a checklist, from the top of the plate to
the bottom

My instructor suggests using the audio panel for the checklist.
I have a KMA-24 so it's a straight row of radios to check. One thing
it will remind you of that the plate won't is to turn on the marker
audio.

If you're practicing you should try simulating radio failure. I might
get to do this more than most (I have an HSI so when the partial panel
stickies show up I need to reset NAV2 if I was using NAV1 for my primary).

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

Ben Jackson wrote:
wrote:

My instructor suggests using the audio panel for the checklist.
I have a KMA-24 so it's a straight row of radios to check. One thing
it will remind you of that the plate won't is to turn on the marker
audio.

My instructor used the same method...but you have to ADD THE CLOCK if you have
a timed approach...but still a great method!

"Going across the Audio panel + Marker + Clock = good approach set up"

K C
PP ASEL IA...and now owner