Required emergency memory procedures
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Hey, I have heard that viper pilots have a specific list of emergency procedures that are required by their squadrons to be memorized, somewhere around 10 or so if I remember hearing correctly.
Anyone have any information on this? I was curious for trainings, was seeing if anything on that would be worth binding, maybe?
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Usually these memory items are the first 3 or 4 items for a particular emergency event. They are committed to memory because they need to happen immediately, in correct order before taking time to consult the checklist. They are in bold text on the checklist.
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Look in AFI 11-2F-16v3, critical action procedures.
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Ok, thx
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@bigbadben If you are in VR all of them
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@bigbadben I know one of them for the viper-Engine Failure in Flight
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@bigbadben I was an airline pilot for 7 years and every aircraft I flew had a set of emergency memory items that had to be learned. After you performed the memory items you then backed up with a checklist. We also had memory items for each phase of flight called “flows” that were followed by a checklist. I have no doubt the military does it the same way.
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@Lippy said in Required emergency memory procedures:
@bigbadben If you are in VR all of them
There are a couple of VR kneeboard programs out there that even support the use of writing tablets to switch pages and write stuff. On the basic level, 4.35’s pilot body had checklists which also work and you could update 4.36’s for that if you wanted. Unfortunately, still haven’t made a major run at VR in 4.36.
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There was a documentary on Belgian F-16 pilots a few years ago, where they followed a student pilot as well.
The Critical Action Procedures (CAPs, better known as the emergency checklists) are all to be known by heart. During pre-flight preparation, the IP would ask any or several CAPs at random and if the student pilot didn’t know them ad verbatim, he wouldn’t be allowed to fly (solo), but instead would have to spend the time studying them.Student pilots only get a limited amount of chances to fail such a verbal check before they have to undergo a performance and dedication review, with course termination as a possible result of that review, but not 100% sure about how many at the moment. (I think it’s only 2 though)