Aviation Acronyms - a podcast by John & Leslie Caubble

From the first week of training, student pilots are thrown into a crazy new world of pilot speak. Aside from radio communication itself, there’s a big world of aviation acronyms and mnemonics to learn. It can be daunting at first, but the pilot soon learns that these become helpful flows in flight and memory aids when studying for the next checkride or flight review. On this episode, we’re walking through a big list of common aviation acronyms… welcome to our study session!

 

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Review of the Acronyms Covered

• IMSAFE
  • Illness
  • Medication 
  • Stress 
  • Alcohol
  • Fatigue 
  • Emotion 

• 5 P’s of Single crew Resource Management for phases of flight when managing an aircraft on your own
  • Plan 
  • Plane 
  • Pilot 
  • Passengers 
  • Programming 

• Required Inspections
  • Annual/ADs
  • VOR (IFR)
  • 100 hr
  • Altimeter/Pitot Static (IFR)
  • Transponder
  • ELT

• Required equipment (91.205) – Day VFR
  • Airspeed Ind
  • Tachometer (each engine)
  • Oil pressure gauge
  • Manifold pressure gauge
  • Altimeter
  • Temperature gauge
  • Oil temperature gauge
  • Fuel gauge
  • Landing gear position indicator
  • Anti-collision lights (after 3/11/96)
  • Magnetic compass
  • ELT
  • Safety Belts

• Night VFR
  • Fuses
  • Landing light (for hire)
  • Anti-collision lights
  • Position lights
  • Source of electricity (generator or alternator)

• Engine out emergency
  • Airspeed
  • Best landing site
  • Checklist
  • Declare
  • Execute

• Required pre-flight action outside vicinity of airport
  • Notams
  • Weather
  • Known ATC delays
  • Runway lengths
  • Alternates available
  • Fuel requirements
  • Takeoff/Landing distances

• Special Use Airspace
  • MOA – military operations area
  • Controlled firing area
  • Prohibited area
  • Restricted area
  • Alert area
  • Warning area
  • NSA – National security area

• DECIDE Model
  • DETECT a change has occurred
  • ESTIMATE the need to react
  • CHOOSE the desirable outcome for success
  • IDENTIFY actions that could be successful
  • DO the action
  • EVALUATE the effect of the action

• Runup
  • Controls – check
  • Instruments – set
  • Gas
  • Attitude – flaps/trim
  • Runup

• Before Takeoff
  • Lights – landing light
  • Camera – transponder enabled
  • Action – mixture set, fuel boost pump, flaps/trim

• Before landing checklist; establishing climb, cruise, descent
  • Gas
  • Undercarriage
  • Mixture set
  • Prop set/fuel Pump
  • Seatbelt & Switches
  • ** some pilots add a C (carb heat) at the beginning and an L (landing light) at the end

• IFR required equipment
  • Generator/Alternator
  • Radio/nav
  • Attitude ind
  • Ball
  • Clock
  • Altimeter
  • Rate of turn ind
  • Directional gyro

• 5 T’s
  • TURN
  • TIME
  • TWIST
  • THROTTLE
  • TALK

• Clearance (also helpful in VFR Class C & B)
  • CLEARANCE LIMIT
  • ROUTE
  • ALTITUDE
  • FREQUENCY (DEP)
  • TRANSPONDER CODE

• Magnetic compass turns
  • UNDERSHOOT
  • NORTH
  • OVERSHOOT
  • SOUTH

• Magnetic compass dip errors
  • ACCELERATE
  • NORTH
  • DECELERATE
  • SOUTH

The most basic and probably most important one for you as a

pilot:

AVIATE – NAVIGATE - COMMUNICATE!

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