My FsP checklist to make points and avoid penalty.

[Yann Collas]

Hi all,

I have my own checklist to avoid penalty when flying. I wrote all my actions when online and flying with FsP. I think that it will help those
who are looking for have more points and no penalty.

Enjoy !

Thanks to FsP team for this great add on. Here is my checklist.

BEFORE BOARDING PASSENGERS

[ ] Parking brakes SET
[ ] Avionics and lights OFF
[ ] Automatic pilot OFF
[ ] Main door OPEN

BEFORE START

[ ] Main door CLOSED
[ ] Beacon light ON
[ ] Start engines

AFTER START

[ ] Nav lights ON
[ ] Taxi lights ON
[ ] Seatbelt ON
[ ] Music ON
[ ] Pitot ON
[ ] Prepare PA, altitude, rate of climb etc.. (don't engage PA)

TAXI

[ ] Slowly (<35kts)

AT HOLDING POINT READY FOR DEPARTURE

[ ] Set proper flap
[ ] Squawk mode C
[ ] Strobes lights ON
[ ] Landing lights ON
[ ] Taxi lights OFF
[ ] Music OFF


ON RUNWAY BEFORE TAKE OFF

[ ] Check strobes lights ON
[ ] Check landing lights ON
[ ] Check taxi lights OFF
[ ] Check squawk mode C
[ ] Check flaps SET
[ ] Check seatbelts ON
[ ] Check music OFF
[ ] Check equal 50% N1 thrust (jet)

TAKE OFF

[ ] Full power gently
[ ] Rotate gently
[ ] At positive vertical speed gear UP (300ft)
[ ] Flaps 0° before VFE look out !!

CLIMB

[ ] 1800-3000 ft/min
[ ] Stay at or below 245 kts
[ ] Stay below 20° of pitch
[ ] Passing transition altitude swith to pressure altitude 1013
[ ] Passing FL100 landing lights OFF
[ ] Passing FL100 seatbelt sign OFF


DESCENT

[ ] Before FL100 prepare aircraft for 245 kts to avoid 250 kts penalty or ask for free speed
[ ] Passing FL100 landing lights ON
[ ] Passing FL100 seatbelt sign ON
[ ] Passing transition level switch to local QNH

APPROACH

[ ] Check landing lights ON
[ ] Check seatbelt ON

LANDING

[ ] Flaps down
[ ] Gear down
[ ] PA disengaged
[ ] Reverse until 70-65 kts (turbo & jet)

EXITING RUNWAY

[ ] Flaps 0°
[ ] Squawk standby
[ ] Strobes lights OFF
[ ] Landing lights OFF
[ ] Taxi lights ON
[ ] Music ON

TAXI

[ ] Slowly (<35kts)

AT GATE

[ ] Set parking brakes
[ ] Taxi lights OFF
[ ] Nav lights OFF
[ ] Pitot OFF
[ ] Shutdown engine
[ ] Seatbelt OFF
[ ] Music OFF (when no more passengers on board)
[ ] Gen OFF
[ ] Battery OFF


ADVISES
- Don't forget this is civilian aviation maximum bank 37°.
- Don't shake the yoke
- Fly gently
- Don't dive to the runway if higher

I hope you will enjoy making more points ;-)) I can make mistakes or forget some things. Fell free to give your opinion ;-))



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[Captain Binkles]

Looks great, might have to print this for myself.

[GoonBird]

Great idea - and nice work, thanks for posting it.

Are you shure that the nav light shouldn't be on before loading pax? And that you can retract flaps fully before settin gthe parking brake?
I've tried what you described (a while ago) and sometimes I got penalties, but I couldn't quite figure out why...

-Fred

[jboweruk]

No problem with lights, as long as they are actually on before taxi. Same on flaps you can retract them fully once off the runway along with
Landing and Strobe lights.

[Ryanamur]

Very nice, perhaps you should post it in the Tips and Tricks.

My only comment would be to specify which kind of aircraft this is for. If flying GA aircraft, you would have minor modification like
Flaps/Gear not retracted before 500' on climb...

Phil

[Yann Collas]

Hello Ryanamur,

This checklist can be used for GA or Airliners aircrafts. I just gave things to do to avoid penalty. The pilot must act according to the
airplane he his flying as you said for GA aircraft for landing gear and flaps.

Here more tips :

- For flaps all pilot must have a serious look to speed to avoid flaps crash. It goes faster with big airplane or bad pitch on take off.
- Pay attention to automatic pilot while taking off. It can be a disaster to forget an autopilot activated while rolling.
- Check the vertical rate of climb, be sure it's a positive value before autopilot activation.
- Be advise that accepting a rolling take off while flying online is a way to forgot things and get penalty. As a pilot in command with
passengers on board you may be sure that all checks were done before rolling.

Yann

[SWAFO]

It's a good thing to set the NAV light on when you first get in the aircraft. That way, you don't have to try to remember during taxi.
Technically, the light should be on anytime someone is aboard the aircraft (that is capable of flying it).


Other than that your tips look good!

[astemland]

hey.
thanks for the checklist to try to not loose so much points. (which have got too much....)

ciao
Anders

[pagir]

Great work!

Maybe you can add while climbing:

[ ] Stay at or below 245 kts to avoid 250 kts penalty or ask for free speed

Pagir

[GoonBird]

jboweruk wrote:
No problem with lights, as long as they are actually on before taxi. Same on flaps you can retract them fully once off the runway along with
Landing and Strobe lights.

Thanks - guess I was just a little too fast on the buttons and levers...


-Fred

[SWAFO]

Thanks - guess I was just a little too fast on the buttons and levers...

I find myself having this problem with women all the time! Hmm...

[nem]

Great list, had been doing something like this myself but haven't gotten as far as this.

Some questions... (Brad?)

AFTER START

[ ] Nav lights ON
[ ] Taxi lights ON
[ ] Seatbelt ON
[ ] Music ON
[ ] Pitot ON
[ ] Prepare PA, altitude, rate of climb etc.. (don't engage PA)

I think depending on conditions you'd set wing anti-ice on as well. Not engine aa though. (At least that's what it says in my 727 checklists.)
Prepare AP... I'd put that somewhere before starting the engines, along with "set FMC (if applicable)".

AT HOLDING POINT READY FOR DEPARTURE

[ ] Set proper flap
[ ] Squawk mode C
[ ] Strobes lights ON
[ ] Landing lights ON
[ ] Taxi lights OFF
[ ] Music OFF

AFAIK flaps are set while taxiing (maybe it has something to do with hydraulics). And for the sake of people new to FSP I'd clarify that you shouldn't
turn on strobes and LL before getting the actual takeoff clearance (or position and hold).

On take-off you don't necessarily apply full power (quite seldom in jetcraft actually).

And two more items for Approach or Landing:
- set Autobrake according to RWY length (if applicable) (in most cases set to "1", emergencies set to "max")
- arm ground spoilers (if applicable)

Nothing else to bitch about though, looks great.



Post Edited ( 08-17-05 08:22 )

[lightrail]

and for taxiiing - I set NAV/GPS to GPS and then I can read off the GPS ground-speed from my NAV display (not all aircraft) - airspeed can be
something quite different depending on winds.

[GoonBird]

Should have seen that one comng from a mile off, Brad...




-Fred

[SWAFO]

nem wrote:
Great list, had been doing something like this myself but haven't gotten as far as this.

Some questions... (Brad?)

AFTER START

[ ] Nav lights ON
[ ] Taxi lights ON
[ ] Seatbelt ON
[ ] Music ON
[ ] Pitot ON
[ ] Prepare PA, altitude, rate of climb etc.. (don't engage PA)

I think depending on conditions you'd set wing anti-ice on as well. Not engine aa though. (At least that's what it says in my 727 checklists.)
Prepare AP... I'd put that somewhere before starting the engines, along with &quot;set FMC (if applicable)&quot;.

AT HOLDING POINT READY FOR DEPARTURE

[ ] Set proper flap
[ ] Squawk mode C
[ ] Strobes lights ON
[ ] Landing lights ON
[ ] Taxi lights OFF
[ ] Music OFF

AFAIK flaps are set while taxiing (maybe it has something to do with hydraulics). And for the sake of people new to FSP I'd clarify that you
shouldn't
turn on strobes and LL before getting the actual takeoff clearance (or position and hold).

On take-off you don't necessarily apply full power (quite seldom in jetcraft actually).

And two more items for Approach or Landing:
- set Autobrake according to RWY length (if applicable) (in most cases set to &quot;1&quot;, emergencies set to &quot;max&quot
- arm ground spoilers (if applicable)

Nothing else to bitch about though, looks great.

For the most part, looks good Nem. However, after start you DO set the engine anti-ice, and the wing anti-ice if needed. Note that the
wing anti-ice must be turned off prior to beginning the takeoff roll (at least at SWA... some airlines do it differently).

As for the FMC... that's set before pushback, and updated if necessary during the taxi, and when at the departure end of the active runway
(if needed to do a position update for LNAV).

Flaps are set BEFORE TAXI. As for light use, see here: http://www.fspassengers.com/forum/showth...hp?tid=314

Here at SWA we don't use the autobrake on landing (only during takeoff in the RTO mode), so I can't be of much assistance with setting
that. The captain will arm the spoilers as part of his landing flow.

Hope that helps... if there's anymore areas you'd like clarified, don't hesitate to ask!