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Quote: The callouts on approaches, missed approaches, takeoffs, v1 cuts are getting a lot of people. When you’re not chairflying with your partner, draw them out on paper with your flight path, write each callout at each point and practice them to aid your chair flying. Walk around your room as you get dinner ready reciting random profiles to ensure you have them down. Dorky? Yes. Helpful though.

If you’re able to word vomit all of that without thinking too hard, you’ll free brain cells for the flying which you will need especially for v1 cuts and single engine missed approaches. Pull up the approaches the night before and use that nifty green pencil (on the right side) to highlight the things you’ll brief and go over that a few times. Kills two birds with one stone: have them ready for the next session and you’ve already gone over them.

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Just type all the callouts on a piece of paper that's small enough to fit on the yoke clip. It's not like you're gonna have a trip sheet to put there during sim, anyways. It's a great backup in case you experience complete brain freeze.

And it's completely permitted by the training department. (I'm absolutely serious).
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I always bounced a tennis ball off the wall when going over call outs. You have to concentrate on catching a ball at the same time you are trying to remember callouts. It’s making your brain work double time in a semi stressful situation. Just an idea
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Quote: I always bounced a tennis ball off the wall when going over call outs. You have to concentrate on catching a ball at the same time you are trying to remember callouts. It’s making your brain work double time in a semi stressful situation. Just an idea
That sounds awesome. Definitely gonna remember that for future events.
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Quote: I always bounced a tennis ball off the wall when going over call outs. You have to concentrate on catching a ball at the same time you are trying to remember callouts. It’s making your brain work double time in a semi stressful situation. Just an idea
That technique worked for a buddy of mine. Everybody made fun of him in training, he even got the call sign "spaulding".

But he got hornets and now commands an aircraft carrier.
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I prefer a racquet ball. Makes a little bit more noise to annoy your neighbors.
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I do remember going for 4-mile runs outside the ATL Drury Inn (what a miserable place) while reciting over and over, 'missed approach, go around thrust, flaps 8, positive rate, gear up, speed mode, nav mode, bug V2, half bank on'...

(And yes I realize those calls are from both the PF and PM. Just helped me to remember...)
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Quote: I do remember going for 4-mile runs outside the ATL Drury Inn (what a miserable place) while reciting over and over, 'missed approach, go around thrust, flaps 8, positive rate, gear up, speed mode, nav mode, bug V2, half bank on'...

(And yes I realize those calls are from both the PF and PM. Just helped me to remember...)
Yes, good to know all the calls, from both pilots. That way you don't get too confused if the other guy screws up his calls.
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Quote: I do remember going for 4-mile runs outside the ATL Drury Inn (what a miserable place) while reciting over and over, 'missed approach, go around thrust, flaps 8, positive rate, gear up, speed mode, nav mode, bug V2, half bank on'...

(And yes I realize those calls are from both the PF and PM. Just helped me to remember...)

Quote: Yes, good to know all the calls, from both pilots. That way you don't get too confused if the other guy screws up his calls.
This is absolutely the best advice to anybody beginning training. Repetition, repetition, repetition! I've done this for every plane I've trained for in the more than 26 years in the airline business.
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Quote: I do remember going for 4-mile runs outside the ATL Drury Inn (what a miserable place) while reciting over and over, 'missed approach, go around thrust, flaps 8, positive rate, gear up, speed mode, nav mode, bug V2, half bank on'...

(And yes I realize those calls are from both the PF and PM. Just helped me to remember...)
Another advantage of chanting the procedures and call outs while you jog is that muggers leave you alone. They will assume that you are an escaped mental patient who is too dangerous to approach.
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