Be a Better Pilot
- Thread starter jspeed87
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400A
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You would be surprised what people miss.
Walk around the airplane after every leg. Make sure you didn't take a bird on some leading edger or their are guts hanging out the back of the motor. Is there a thread bare spot on a tire that wasn't in view before. Are you leaking more than usual. Etc, etc.
jspeed87
Well-Known Member
Good tip, I usally just tie her down and call it a day. Ill be doing this from now on
Firebird2XC
Well-Known Member
Treat it like a discipline.
Never stop learning.
Never stop learning.
R
Roger, Roger
Guest
Exactly. Your maintenance folks and the ops folks where you fly will love you because stuff gets taken care of right after it breaks, not when the next flight is OMG LATE AND I'VE GOT A FLAT TIRE AND A LEAKY BRAKE FIX IT NOW.
WacoFan
Bigly
An extension of that thought (which is a good one) is something that I've always done with any airplane I've ever been around for any length of time: Keep it extremely clean. I was like an OCD type about keeping airplanes I was responsible for or flew as clean as possible. This is two-fold: When I was working at the FBO when I was a kid I was disgusted by the competitors airplanes - they were nasty. So, it was from a competitive point of view in that way (and it DID make a difference). The other reason is because if the airplane is as clean as could be I always figured I would be able to spot an external defect quicker, or an increasingly bad oil leak that was spitting oil onto the belly (take a look at the belly of the trainer you fly next time - is there much oil there? Can you see paint at all??? (Our competitors would fly over on take-off and the belly's would be black. I'd point it out to a new student or prospect and tell them to look under the belly's of any of our airplanes - even one that had just returned to the ramp after a flight. I explained "That's one of the things you pay a little more for" and it usually was quite effective.)