A TOMATO FLAMES

[asechrest]

Hello all.

I'm running through the PTS another time before my checkride. And I really hate this mnemonic. It's totally ridiculous, and is actually I think an impediment to remembering the required instruments. I think it would be much better to divide the required instruments into intuitive groups. So far I've got day VFR into four groups. I'll list them below. Anyone have a better way of studying this, or more intuitive groupings, or better name groups, or a way to incorporate the night VFR instruments?

These four main groups are easy to remember. Each one has three instruments, except for the safety group (think "extra" safety!).

Engine
Tachometer
Manifold pressure (each engine)
Temperature (liquid cooled engines)

Fluids
Oil temperature
Oil pressure
Fuel level

Orientation
Altimeter
Airspeed
Mag. heading

Safety
Seat belts
ELT
Anti-collision lights (after 1996)
Landing gear position indicator

 

[Jim Logajan]

Sure there are. You have to know how to recover from a spin. If you try to look that up, you'll be dead before you get the POH opened.

Hey! That reminds me of a scene in the Bowery Boys 1953 movie "Clipped Wings":A terrified Sach consults his flight manual, but each chapter is titled "How to Face Death in the Air." [1]

(In the runaway plane, Slip reads the manual)
SLIP: "Chapter Nine: How to Face Death in the Air --- who wrote this book, an undertaker?"
(Slip throws the book out of the plane. An unseen stagehand obviously throws it back in. Sach catches it)
SACH: "Oh, oh, look at that, oh, I'll read the instructions, I got it, Chief. Chapter Ten: Now That You're Dead --- Ohp, oh, oh!!!" [2]
[1] http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/71084/Clipped-Wings/full-synopsis.html
[2] http://theageofcomedy.laurelandhardycentral.com/bowboys53.html