Today at work I was bored and decided to conjure up a useful acronym for personal use and flight instruction in the future.

My primary instructor was mad about CGUMPS and as a result, I'm pretty mad about it too. For some reason, acronyms are always running through my mind as opposed to things like "remember your checklist" and various other things.

So...I decided to create an acronym that would be running through my mind at all times. Just like to know if anyone thinks its exhaustive, is lacking anything, or if they'd like to add something to it. Maybe someone has something already similar they use as well? At any rate, I think it would be fun to share acronyms as to make us all fly better.

So here it is, I wrote it out today on paper at work:

When one of the five significant portions of flight is encountered, (takeoff, climb, cruise, descent, landing), think of the acronym ACT

Aircraft Control: Maintain assigned headings, altitudes, holding courses

Communication: Announce positions, intentions, mandatory IFR reporting

Thorough use of Checklists/Approach Briefings: Utilize checklists, IFR briefings, CGUMPS when applicable to each portion of flight

Example of using ACT on descent:

Aircraft Control--->maintain heading, vertical speed, and altitude to assigned

Communication--->announce descent to altitude, any readbacks, IFR mandatory reports, any frequency switch

Thorough use of checklists/briefings--->go through descent checklist, brief approach, memorize missed approach procedure, identify nav aids

Using a word like "ACT" is a strong word that will be part of my run through on each portion of flight. I might even put it at the end of my checklists to be extremely redundant.

Anyone have any cool acronyms they've made up?