Landing Checklist

WWUFSTAALLL

W-WIND
W-WATER
U-UNDERCARRAGE
F-FLAPS
S-SPEED
T-TRIM
A-AIRBRAKES
A-ANNOUNCE
L-LOOK
L-LOOK
L-LOOK

I trim the A/B speed and from base to final
I may reduce the A/B and keep the nose down
particularly if it is turbulant.

I trim the Landing Flap speed with the nose
down.

Doug Whitehead (EDW)

This is all basic airmanship, and shouldn't require a checklist.

But if you really need a checklist, how about WWW:

Wind (so you don't embarass yourself by landing downwind).

Water (so you don't embarass yourself by stalling in the pattern by
flying too slow cuz you still got 300 lbs of water onboard...and

Wheel (so you don't block the runway by landing gear up).

One could argue that the preceding three items require a specific
landing-related OODA process to be made (or not...). The rest? You
got to be reminded to Look? Really?

Think about it.

Kirk
66

OODA: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. See John Boyd.

wrote:
You got to be reminded to Look? Really?

No, it's there because USTALL rolls off the tongue better than USTA.

Tony V "6N"

Tony Verhulst wrote:
wrote:

You got to be reminded to Look? Really?


No, it's there because USTALL rolls off the tongue better than USTA.

Maybe that "L" is to remind newbies that they are in the pattern and
they really shouldn't start circling in the inevitable 4 kt thermal on
downwind.
:-)

Shawn

"GASP"

Gear
Altitude
Spoilers
Pattern


Keep it simple. Do it every time.

I'm sure everyone has their own version that works for them.

I'm all for the "simple" checklist...

In order of cost, and emberassment...my checklist is:


Gear
Flaps
Spoilers.


Everything else mentioned strikes me as administrative duties, which are to
be done at every phase of flying. But these three are always done together
and in order, when preparing to land.




Since you asked.



Steve Hill

In article , Tony Verhulst
writes
wrote:
You got to be reminded to Look? Really?

No, it's there because USTALL rolls off the tongue better than USTA.

Tony V "6N"

What about LTFT? (You work it out)
--
Mike Lindsay

Following Tony's KISS rules, I use 'PTGDS'

'Put The Gear Down Stupid'

John

At 02:12 28 December 2005, John Farrington wrote:

Following Tony's KISS rules, I use 'PTGDS'

'Put The Gear Down Stupid'

John

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