CFIIs: How Do You Teach Task Management

Two things. First, how do you off 8 people when the total number of seats between the two planes adds up to 6? Were there two people on the ground standing in the unluckiest spot on the desert that day? Second, pictures of semi-trucks on the highway from 5' AGL is one thing, but to take pictures of trains on the highway at 5' AGL is quite the impressive feat.

Why you gotta ruin my fun?

Picked this tip up (from Rod), 4 things you should be asking/telling yourself:

What are the next two things I do?

Horizontal:
-Where am I going?
-How do I get there?
-What do I do next?

Vertical:

-How Low?
-How long?
-Which way?

Every time time you put something in (freqs, approach, etc.):

-See it
-Say it
-Check it

Instruments radios instruments radios instruments missed approach instruments checklist instruments gps instruments approach plates. Get the pattern? And NEVER do a damn thing other than instruments while in a turn. Finger fly two fingers is all you should have. Let the aircraft fly, you have enough work to do.


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Bring sticky notes on IFR flights. When you brief the missed, rather than trying to say it out loud and remember it, just draw it on the sticky, DTK up (so you don't get confused by those dang southerly directions), include the DA/MDA/MAP and all other pertinent altitudes, and then stick that sticky note somewhere right in the middle of the panel, or if there isn't a good spot on the panel, the overhead sun visor usually makes a good convenient point. You can even do all this before your flight if you've got a pretty good idea of which approach you'll be shooting. If you do this, then when push comes to shoving the throttles forward on your properly executed missed, its a properly executed missed that ends at the holding fix, not a smoking hole because you didn't plan to go missed. Because if there's one thing that kills alot of part 91 IFR pilots, is a hasty, unplanned missed approach because you assumed you could get in.

Thanks guys, I have been applying a lot of this on my flights and it has helped out.