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Air Force Instrument Flying Manual.
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IFR Preflight
--When frost or dew is frozen on aircraft sfyou should turn on pitot heat to confirm that it is both working and capable of melting any internal ice as water through the drain hole.
--Pitot heat check (Pitot heat should be on in clouds and when outside air is within 10 degrees of freezing.)

IFR Cockpit Check
--vacuum check
--Pitot heat
--Magnetic compass card check and set
--Altimeter set and error check
--VSI zeroed
--Clock set with ATC time check

IFR Checks
--Pitot heat
--Time check
--Gyro check for noise
--Turn coordinator and heading indicator checked for turn
--Attitude indicator checked for no turn

Taxi Checks
--Light checks
--Brake check
--Turn coordinator check
--Heading indicator check

Approach Checks
Timer
Markers
Beacons
Identifiers

Departure/Arrival/Briefings
Have an approach segment preflight checklist for each segments of the approach. Have a step by step routine so that you neither leave something out, nor will you allow something there that shouldn't be. Everything you do should be designed to leave you an escape route.

Departure Briefing
P R O C E E D
Plan Radios Organize Clearance Extra care Expedite Depart
Weather Set all Charts ATIS Taxi Readback Clear
Route Lists Copy Comply Hold
File Notes Readback

Arrival Briefing
A R R I V A L
ATIS Diagram Preset Lights Traffic Checklist Clear
Checkpoint Entry Preset Position Position Acknowledge Ground
Callup Checklist

Be honest in your appraisal of the aircraft condition, documentation, pilot proficiency, weather, and safety limits. Plan the route with proper charts, figure the alternatives, know the MEAs, oxygen demands, applicable regulations, effect of inoperative chart elements, and airport diagrams

You must tailor the generic POH list, the complex aircraft requirements, the IFR requirements and your requirements to ensure that everything necessary or desirable has been considered. This allows you to include both the necessary and nice-to-have as you consider logical. The following items are only suggested for incorporation into you checklist. Plan for at least five revisions.

In the preflight operation how often are steps retraced? What checklist? It's my plane. How many wasted motions in the start operation? What checklist? I've done this thousands of times. How often are the radio knobs turned the long way around to a frequency? You can change frequencies by counting clicks. How many times to get the ATIS?

The WARTS approach list
1. Weather
On departure, good enough to get back
2. Abnormal
Prepared to abort on takeoff
3. Runway
Which one, how long, surface condition
4. Terrain
Hills, water, best direction
5. Special Notes
Fine print, missed procedures

NATS approach briefing
1. NOTAMs
ATIS notes
2. Approach
Chart briefing point by point
date, frequencies, courses, minimums and missed
3. Terrain
MSA, which way
4. Special Notes
arrival, taxiing,

When in Need, Pop-up
A pop-up clearance is one of the most efficient ways to use the system. Properly used it is a quick solution to a flying problem. It is possible to file a pop-up through an FSS with a void time clearance but it is much easier to get it directly through the controlling radar facility. I am constantly amazed by the many instances I am flying with relatively experienced IFR pilots who have never made a Pop-up, or for that matter a tower en route. A pop-up clearance is not a 'given', ATC takes it on only as workload allows. The pilot is responsible for obstacle and terrain clearance until reaching MIA or MEA. I found it much easier to be in VFR before making my request.

POP-UP CCR
ATIS
Pitot heat / Alt Air
Nav #1 108.5
Nav #2 117.0
ADF 335
Which way_ 181
How low 440/740
How long_2:16
VDP 1:30
Missed - left to VOR
Alternate plates

Avoiding Overload
Try MARTHA as a pre-approach data base
--Missed
--Approach
--radial-radio-route
--Time
--Heading
--Altitude

Jeppeson Briefing Strip
--Frequencies
--Courses
--Minimums
--Missed

Checklist Waiting for Assembly
Heading
Time to Miss
FREQ-IDENT MDA
INBOUND/ALT
MISSED PROCEDURE
FAF/OM/ALT
DME APP FREQ/FIX
TIME, DH-MDA
MISSED DIRECTION
CHECK BASICS

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