Australian Flying - July 2018

Away from

the Airport

Time pressure is not just the root

of problems on the airfield. The

cause of some errors can be traced

back to not enough time, or not

allowing enough time, for study,

say the Bunbury team. “Work and

life commitments can often get in

the way of theory study.” To gain

the full benefit of a briefing and

the f lying lesson, it’s important to

do the preparatory theory study,

particularly in an integrated

training course.

Radio

In some circles, the transmit

button is known as “the dumb

button”; press it and you lose

brain function. According to

the Bunbury team, poor

radio calls are usually “a

combination of not enough

study and not thinking

about the call before

making it.”

There are different ways

of learning radio calls, and

memorising the usual possibilities

is one method that often falls

short. It can seem that learning

by rote all the possible variations

is good preparation, but it may

well be too prepared, according

to Chris Koort. “When students

have memorised radio calls,

and the tower says something

unexpected, they end up quickly

becoming confused and answering

a different question.”

He says the key is to teach

students what to expect, and

to understand the reason for

each request and be f lexible in

response. Koort also makes the

observation that for overseas

students with English as a second

language, radio work is the

biggest challenge.

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AUSTRALIAN FLYING July – August 2018

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Similarly, it is easy, particularly

when under any sort of pressure,

to switch to automatic. You check

the oil; it’s always on 6, so you

don’t notice it’s actually 4. As

Chris puts it, “‘yep, yep, yep, yep,

yep, let’s go f lying’ isn’t effective!”

To try to head off this automatic

mode habit, Chris will often ask

a student what the mag drop was

after the run-up checks.