The Good Old DC3
 

The STUPRECC and CUBSTUNT will probably stay with me forever from the halcyon days at Valley but the very best, and very SIMPLEST drill has to be the shutdown checks in the beautiful and graceful DC3.

FO-MO-FO

Fuel OFF
Mags OFF

and then

F##K OFF !

Just sooooooooooo Sweet ! :ok:

Not quite right.

Terry Thomas makes French fillies go gay holding his pri*k.

Chipmunk.

Tiger Moth

Altimeter SET
Fuel ON
Hatch CLOSED

and that's it!

Newt, BEagle ... add "Taxi Lamp On" for anti-collision purposes ... for Chipmunk pre-takeoff checks ... I think it was sequenced on the FRC's just after Pressure Head Heater IIRC ...

Dash, down, crawl, cover, sights, observe, fire.

Reaction to effective enemy fire. Not very aeronautical I know...

.. observe, sights?

:8

HASELL (before aerobatix).

Harness: Loose and comfy...

1013 all round;
Aileron Upset - NORMAL;
HP Stop Valves...

Ideas, anyone?

Auth'd out, signed out, booked out, walk out.

Late Arm
Stick top
Camera

Stuck in my head for 25 years!

TOTD you forgot:

Hydraulics - three 2's, two 0's.

Cockpit Drill ?
 

"Fuel and Noise".

or

"Kick the tyres, light the fires, we'll brief in the air, last man airborne buys the coffee".

D.

1, pause, 2, pause, .........:D

CODBEEF

POSHBEEF

:confused::confused:

....the drills for starting engines in the Shackleton - often practised in the crewroom!

How about

STWW ?

Spectacles
Testicles
Wallet
Watch

Always did it before a night out "down route" ;)

How about 'pathasa(l)tnie'- info to transmit in an emergency (after Mayday, natch), or
W(E) HAV Firad (pre-descent & joining- JP?).
TTFFMMCIHCL going up & BUMMCFIHL coming down- RAFCFC Condor
...HSI,BDHI,standby compass- erect, off flags away: ADI BDHI erect, off flags away, horizon bars set... and something about BRSL latched. rest vague.
Worst is the days when I look at the calendar, its the 10th and I panic cause I can't remember if I paid my Mess bill... :uhoh:

Old drills that you just can't forget.
 

Chris Scott.
Aileron upset has me thinking VC-10 but I suppose it could be from any other aircraft of similar vintage?!
BV

Yes Bob, VC10 is correct: Top-of-Climb check.

If needed for wing-bending relief (above a certain weight), Aileron Upset is cancelled by crew (sorry, F/E) action passing FL240 in the climb. The HP Stop Valves are, IIRC, the bleed for the airframe anti-ice, which serves the L/Es of fin. tailplane and the whole wing-span (unlike more modern a/c). HP because (again IIRC) there isn't enough grunt from the LP air on the low-bypass Conway engine. Can't remember any other jet transport with a TOC check, which may explain why it sticks in my mind after 40 years. Sad, innit...

Closely followed by the three man lift and spoons :E


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Burning and turning..