Callouts.....

[maverick_fp00]

I'm just wondering if anybody has a web site or even ideas of their own for callouts for a Navajo/Chieftain. I sit in the right seat of a Navajo quite a bit and we try to work in the cockpit like any airline or corporate company would work. For instance, if we get assigned an altitude, I'll callout "1000 to go", "500 to go", and "200 to go", or like I'll call out his gump check - just stuff like that. So if anybody could help me find some stuff I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,
Nick Kitchen
[email protected]

 

[Cornelius]

The best thing for you to do is to brainstorm with the other Navajo pilots and come up with a list of standard call outs. Non-standard calls can actually be detrimental especially if the PF has no clue what you are talking about. It will only add to the confusion. You may want to discuss the matter with the chief pilot of the operation. You may have already done these things, but I'm just checking.

One thing about the "1,000 to go" and so on, the regional I'm with now trained me to say "1,000 above" and so on.

 

[skydiverdriver]

Depends on how well it climbs. When I flew the Fokker, we said 100 feet to go. In the Brazillia, it was 1000 feet to go. In the CRJ, we say nothing because we get a "C" tone when it's 1000 to go.

 

[ShawnC]

And in the Cessna 152 we call out 1 foot to go... 6 inches to go...

 

[JediNein]

ShawnC

ShawnC! You didn't mention: "100 Feet, land ahead. 200 Feet, circle right to land, 400 feet, fly pattern."

Fly SAFE!
Jedi Nein
1500' gain on cow farts, yeeehhawww!!!!

 

[8sm]

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ISBN 0-8138-2098-7


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regards.......8sm

 

[KlingonLRDRVR]

Mav,

Just have to add to what Skydiverdriver posted. I don't fly one of those new, still under warranty, all the bells and whistles still work, CRJ's. I fly old Lear freightdogs. We too have the "C" tone for 1000 ft to go but never let your guard down and trust a bell or a light on the altitude indicator. I've had the tone and light go out more than once and I even had the pleasure of both out at the same time. If you are in the habit of calling 1000 ft to go.... even if it is just one finger in the air that you both can see you will someday save an altitude bust. I know I have. Good Luck.

KlingonLRDRVR

 

[ShawnC]

I stopped doing that call out a while back, I do remember reciting it many many times during training, and sometimes after the 200' call the CFI would pull the rope release just to surprise me.

Don't really much worry about it that much, though generally before I give a ride, I review it, you know because they are unsuspecting victems.

 

[flx757]

In a previous life, our procedures were changed in the book to reflect the FAA's preference of stating the altitude leaving for the altitude cleared to instead of the "one to go" call. In our book, this explanation was followed by the example " fifteen for sixteen".

After that, all calls were made "fifteen for sixteen" regardless of the actual altitudes. After all, that's what the book said.

AND, the FAA was happy.

 

[TriStar_drvr]

Callouts to avoid:

"Oh Sh*t!"

"What's it doing now?" and along the same vein,
"Why's it doing that?"

"Was that for us?"

"Doh!"