Ayudas para recordar puntos importantes en aviación!

No es un secreto que siempre hay cosas nuevas por aprender, pero esto no significa que podemos dejar caer en el olvido las cosas que ya sabemos.  En aviación, siempre hay que estar estudiando y repasando, y se dice que lo que no se repasa y se usa frecuentemente, se va perdiendo de la memoria a largo plazo. 

Para mi una manera sencilla de repasar y recordar cosas, es usando juegos de palabras que le ayudan a mi memoria.  Aquí les presento algunas que he ido apuntando a lo largo del tiempo. 

NOTA:  casi todas están en inglés, pues es más fácil estudiar y repasar en inglés. 

¿Usan alguna otra?  Pueden compartirla en los comments y con gusto las incluyo en esta breve lista.


Before entering the aircraft

1. Documents and inspections: AAVIATE

Airworthiness directives
Annual
VOR
100 hour inspection
Altimeter / pitot static system
Transponder
ELT
Static System

2.  Documents:  ARROW

Airworthiness
Radio certificate
Registration
Operator manual (POH)
Weight and Balance


VFR Flights

1. Minimum equipment for VFR flights:  ATOMATOEFLAMES

Altimeter
Tachometer
Oil temperature gauge
Magnetic compass
Airspeed indicator
Temperature
Oil Pressure
Emergency equipment
Fuel Gauge
Landing light / landing gear
Anticollision light
Manifold pressure gauge
ELT
Seatbelts

2. Equipment for night flights: FLAPS

Fuses
Landing Light
Anticollision Light
Position Lights
Source of electrical power

3. Before Landing Checklist:  ABCGUMPS

Autopilot OFF
Boost Pumps according to POH
Cowl Flaps Closed
Gas ON Both
Undercarriage Down
Mixture Full Rich
Props Full Forward
Seats / seatbelts / switches (landing lights, landing gear 3 green)

4a. Compass Errors:  Dip Error. UNOS

Undershoot North
Overshoot South

4b. Compass Errors: Acceleration Error. ANDS

Accelerate North
Decelerate South

IFR Flights

1. Minimum equipment for IFR flights: GRABCARD

Generator / Alternator
Radios (comms, nav, gps)
Attitude indicator
Ball (slip and skid indicator)
Clock
Altimeter (pressure sensitive)
Rate of turn indicator
Directional Gyro

2a.  Briefing before entering a holding pattern:  IDASLE

Inbound course
Direction of turns
Altitude
Speed
Lenght of turns
Entry procedure

2b. Before entering a holding pattern:  FREDAS.

Fuel
Radio
Engine
Direction
Altitude
Safety


3. On final approach, after getting out of the soup (clouds):  PUFF

Power / carb heat / mixture / props
Undercarriage down
Flaps set
Final Approach Speed stabilized

4. Currency of experience:  66HIT

6 months
6 approaches
Holding
Intercepting
Tracking

5. For following a route on IFR comms failure: AVEF

Asigned
Vectored
Expected
Filed

6. For selecting altitude on IFR comms failure: MEA  (the highest of the 3)

Minimum enroute altitude
Expected altitude
Asigned / Filed altitude

7. Decsent from the MDA or DA to the runway:  ATRVTR

Approach lights
Threshold  Markings
Reil
VASI / PAPI
Touchdown Zone markings
Runway edge lights or markings

8. Getting the cockpit and briefing ready for the approach:  TIMSABC

Tune
Identify
Markers
Set Directional gyro with the compass
ATIS
Briefing (approach plate)
Comms frequency set

9.Writting down the IFR clearance:  CRAFT

Clearance Limit
Route of Flight
Altitude
Frequency
Transponder Code

10. Go around:  5C´S

Cram
Climb
Clean
Cool
Call

Aeronautical  Decision Making

1. DECIDE MODEL

Detect
Estimate
Choose
Identify
Do
Evaluate

2. SHEL MODEL

Software
Hardware
Environment
Liveware

3. PAVE CHECKLIST

Pilot
Aircraft
EnVironment
External Pressures

4. IMSAFE CHECKLIST

Illness
Medication
Stress
Alcohol
Fatigue
Eating / Emotion