Passenger Briefing??

[tarp]

The mock FA announce is every bit a joke or hyperbole as Jim's "puke in the bag".

I do it once with newbies (PPL) so they get the message. The DE I send people to will evaluate that the candidate gives the briefing as per the FAR's. With Comm candidates, one of his favorite oral questions is what is "required" to be briefed to pax?

You want a tough call - A DE gets in the plane with a Comm candidate and sits on the seat belt. The PIC says "Sir you must fasten your seat belt. Are you familiar with the operation of the belt? " The DE says, "I'm familiar and I don't want to wear one". The Comm guy says, " but you have to, it says so in the regs". The DE says "No - let's go!" This was a test that a DE friend of mine tried on a Comm student I sent to him. The DE says that the Comm guy should have taxiied out for takeoff, the Comm guy says he didn't move because even though legal for the brief, he thought it would be "careless and reckless" to taxi knowing that the seat belt is clanking on the seat frame. So what are you going to teach your students? Here come the lawyers again!

As to passengers and other folks in the other seats in the plane, what do you have to think about:

91.11 - Interference
91.21(a)(2) - Electronic devices
91.105 - Crewmembers at station
91.107 - Safety Belts
91.205 - Equipment requirements
91.211 - Oxygen

So Jim, you have a very good VFR brief! If IFR, all you gotta add is "Shut off the Phone"!

 

[Booker]

So Jim, you have a very good VFR brief! If IFR, all you gotta add is "Shut off the Phone"!

Agreed. A minor point, though. I don't have the FCC CFR in front of me, but last I checked phones have to be off regardless of the rules the flight is conducted under.

 

[avbug]

As a student pilot, be sure to include in your brief to your passenger that they need to get out of the airplane before you fly, because you can't carry a passenger.

Student pilots carrying passengers typically begin their briefing with "Hey, watch this!"

 

[Snakum]

ROFLMAO!

 

[Immelman]

My pax brief:

Make sure their belts are on properly (tell them and then check).

Make sure they know when to touch the controls, instruments, door handle, or anything else (never, unless told other wise).

Make sure they know emergency procedures: how to brace for emergency landing, how to secure aircraft for emerg landing (door operation and stowing "projectiles" in a crash landing)

Make sure they shut up when something is on the radio or when I'm busy..

... last "make sure" is overriden by: SCAN FOR TRAFFIC! If you see an airplane getting close, make sure I know about it. I want to know about it. Introduce them to the concept of looking for aircraft, and that an airplane staying in one "spot" is bad news. Explain that all airplanes, even in controlled airspace, have a resopnsbility to look for traffic, and that I appreciate all pax' help on this.


the rest are optional things... explain what to expect for noises/sensations that they might not be familiar with... just things that are nice to do. Its also nice to explain where the plastic bags are, and that we don't have a lav in the Citabria.

 

[TXCAP4228]

Not that it will help you on your check ride, but after the first four or five times you take somebody flying (friends, family, whoever) and they start talking over ATC or the ATIS, or you have a little kid start flipping swithces - OR PULL THE BIG RED MIXTURE KNOB - you'll figure out what you need to include in the brief.

I liked Jim's.

Especially the barf bag part.

 

[ShawnC]

Belts: Wear it period

Controls: "See all these knobs, and switches? They are all mine don't touch."

Emergency Exit: "If you hear me say '0h $hit' and reaching for the door (or canopy release depending on the aircraft), I suggest you do the same."

Excrement: "If it comes out of your body, you have to clean it up."

But seriously. I just explain it before I start the engine, just tell them the basics, you don't have to go though every detail because most people have been on enough airplanes to know what they have to do.