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Post me a private message, with your address, and I'll get something together to cover the basics. It will give you an idea of what to look for.
Some things are aircraft or company specific, but there are basic calls that everyone uses in just about the same form. Gear and flaps most always require a double confirmation from both pilots; it hasn't been called on the checklist until both pilots verify it. On the takeoff, airspeed alive, V1, and Rotate are pretty generic. Positive rate gear up is another. Call out of ten when leaving ten thousand, and state the speed restriction, if any. Same arriving, ten, for two fifty.
Climbing through 180 call for the transition check, reset altimeters, check oxygen, etc. Most firms have calls of a thousand to go and five hundred to go, for altitude. Same on the descent.
If you receive a heading change, relay it, and state the altitude with it. It's a good habit to always call heading and altitude together, even if one of the two hasn't changed.
If you're flying and the pilot not flying confirms a new altitude from ATC, repeat it back. If you're off and are advised by your cohort, thank him and advise that you're correcting.
On descent, call the minimums. Some folks will call XXX feet to go, but that leaves things wide open. State XXX feet to minimums. In this manner it doesn't matter if minimums are MDA or DH; you're just got XXX to go to minimums. Standard calls are typically a thousand to mins, five hundred to mins, and then down in 100' increments. AT your missed point, advise field in/not in sight. Call airspeed, glideslope/localizer deviation, rate of descent in hundreds,etc.
Get in the habit of pointing to or touching everything when you're completing a checklist segment, and keep one finger on the checklist in case you stop...avoid missing items. If you get pulled away from the checklist, execute it again, completely. If you do memory items for an abnormal or emergency checklist, review them again on the printed checklist anyway, when it's time to clean up. Never leave things to memory. If you reach a point on a check that needs to be held, such as you're to flaps, but the PF doesn't want flaps yet, put your finger there, and anounce, "holding on flaps." When you're complete with one checklist, announce that it's complete, and you're holding on the next (approach complete, holding prelanding checks). Basic stuff.
Specifics will be with each company, and also with each airplane. Give me a shout, and I'll try to get a list of the basics together for you. You can review those with your present flying, and it will give you a bit of a headstart when you're flyign with another person in the cockpit, or doing sim drills. If you happen to be doing any insrtructing, it's not a bad habit to instill in your students, no matter what kind of flying they intend to go on and do. I encourage folks to read checklists out loud and make the calls, even when they're alone. Anyway...give me a yell and remind me what I said, and then be patient. Good luck!
