cubanate, I remember the (slightly different) mnemonic at #86 standing for:

Trim +5, neutral, neutral
Antiskid
Autostab
Nozzle stop
Flaps
Fuel
Instruments
Oxygen
Hood
Harness
Hydraulics
Controls
Captions
Pins

Is that the one?

STP

Ex RAF A Tech P

Civilian wise licences cover

Airframes
Engines
Electrics
Instruments
Compass
Basic Radio

And a few hundred aircraft / engine types.

Pretty standard for Civilian licences.

:O

Camel Camelling.

Camel stops!

Jump off, hump off- look inside.

Rounds in the camel, no rounds in the hump etcetera, etcetera. :)

One they really beat into me was the four principles of marksmanship.

the position and hold must be firm enough to support the weapon

the weapon must point naturally at the target

the sight alignment must be correct

the shot must be released, and followed through without disturbing the aim

:eek:


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Two drills from Prentice days....first was taught to me by Adam Wojda, not a man to waste time, he said he learned it in the Battle of Britain;

Pre take off:- F F F

Fuel - Fan - Fu...leave (Fuel FULL and ON, Pitch fully FINE, Take off)


Second; I still wake up doing it in a nightmare; it's the procedure in a Prentice (OK, in my Prentice) for a change of frequency as in "Go to Tower, 118 decimal 1" when a mile or two from the threshold.

It had a 4-channel valve/crystal VHF set behind the left-hand seat with a selector for ABCD on the panel. If you had not loaded the crystal you needed pre-flight, you had to....

Reach behind the seat and switch set OFF.
Remove crystal from set, by feel.
Open box of crystals on RH seat, locate new crystal out of 75 of them, remove it.
Put old crystal in box.
Reach behind seat, feel for empty crystal socket, insert new crystal
Remove antenna feeder from socket in set
Insert in antenna socket a 3 ft piece of 2-core wire with a bulb on one end
Switch on set
Select channel with new crystal
With left hand press PTT on column
With right hand unlock and turn the antenna tuner knob for max brightness of bulb
Release PTT and Lock tuner
Remove piece of wire and replace with antenna feeder.
Call "Tower, this is GAOPL, short final".

Quote:

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Pretty standard for Civilian licences.

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Once upon a time, children, there was BeeCeeAyAhhh, but then the big bad beast called EEEArseAhhh came and swallowed up BEECEEayAhh, and we all lived unhappily ever after.

Post flight anti-embarrassment checks (works on all types), prior to entering dispersal:
Lights
Hyds
Pins
PSP
Wings (or RADAR)

After take off
 

From my RAFGSA days.....

Post take off.....

W U R O

Wheel - up Radio - off

AHHHH Bliss.

FTD

Fix/Attack,Stab,Ackle-ackle, Insert;).

OAP

OAP's - Fix/Attack,Stab,Ackle- etc sounds like a Bayonet Drill.

Any takers for this convoluted mnemonic ?



A
D - am'
F - ine
G - irl
K - issed
L - onely
M - arine,
N - et
R- esult,
S - prog
U - nder
W - ay


Nowadays I'm not entirely sure if "M - arine" came before "G - irl" or indeed whether you dared not call him "Royal" if there was one within earshot. Fairly certain it didn't stand for "Matelot."



LFH

Good point LFH! It is a back seat routine but, some of us did work in more than one specialisation at the same time:ooh:.

OAP

STP,

It is indeed only slightly different; there are a couple of items in there that I don't remember from the JP5A pre-take off checks. But you're probably younger than me!:ok:

Captain Radar ...

Best Bent Wire! Still give that a quick blast when picking up a morse key!

Back on thread ...

F uel (pump on, contents sufficient)
R adio (as required)
E ngine (Ts & Ps / 5 Greens)
P ropellor (in climb pitch / full power available)
P arking break (off)
A ltimeter (QFE set)
T ransponder (as required)
C arb heat (hot)
H arnesses (tight & locked)

Full Cipmunk:
Pre-T/O:
Tiny, Tim, Makes, Fishfingers, Go, Green, Pete, Though, Has, Them, Evenly, Turned...includes throttle friction nut.
Downwind:
My, Fat, Friend, Has, Hairy, Balls
After-landers:
Brave, Pirates, Take, Two, Frigates

JP Downwind:
Sarah And Lesley, F*ck, For, Hours, Willingly.........sadly they didn't!

SS-11. Impact - wires cut, sight caged.
TOW. Low mag, sight stow, MASS to safe.


Breathing, bleeding, breaks and burns - funny how that has come back round again.

>F uel (pump on, contents sufficient)
R adio (as required)
E ngine (Ts & Ps / 5 Greens)
P ropellor (in climb pitch / full power available)
P arking break (off)
A ltimeter (QFE set)
T ransponder (as required)
C arb heat (hot)
H arnesses (tight & locked)<

That'll be the rejoin checks for the mighty Vigilant, not forgetting the dreaded mute switch as part of the Radio check.

One of our guys is a BA first officer. He reckons the checklist for his 747 is a lot less complicated than that for the Vegemite...

"Cheeses moving - cheeses stopped. High speed, fully down, Blow's on auto, brakes held on".

Any thoughts?

I have a couple of ubiquitous pre-embarrassment checks, depending on class of aircraft, that I always use when lining up for take-off:

Jets: 'Flaps, trims and pins'
Pistons: 'Flaps, trims, prop, tailwheel lock'

Lomcovák, Buccaneer?

Personal pre-landing checks:

Gear down, toes clear, clearance.

That sounds like my CYA (cover your arse) pre T/O check: 'Canopy, Pin, Flaps, Trim'

Plan Fix
Insert
Chg Dest

Pylons
Late Arm