[bvipilots] Re: Commenting on tonight's flight.
- From: "Stephanie Watts" <swwatts3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 20:37:33 -0700
Ron,
Based on my limited experience, it appears you should start your pre-flight
checklist approximately 15 minutes before your scheduled departure. When I
timed the pre-flight checklist, everything up to passenger boarding took
approximately 5 minutes. This leaves 10 minutes for completing the remaining
checklists and departing at the specified departure time. During my previous
attempts to fly IYP-VA, I waited for Michelle to suggest that I begin the
pre-flight checklist.
As for Michelle yelling at you, I had the same experience. I wonder if it is
because she is looking at your PC clock which is different from the actual time
in the city of departure. Regardless of local time, the utc (as you know) will
not change. However, you are actually flying the flight from where you and
your PC are actually located. Consider adjusting the flight time in FSX to
match the city time from which you are departing.
Hope this helps.
Stephanie
-----Original Message-----
From: bvipilots-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bvipilots-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Ron Kolesar
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 7:56 PM
To: B V I Pilots
Subject: [bvipilots] Commenting on tonight's flight.
Hello, to my fellow BVI pilot subscribers.
Tonight I flew flight 215 to Portland.
The entire flight is
215 KSJC KPDX San Jose to Portland 17:00 01:00 00:43 02:04 N120YP B738.
When I select a flight, I look at the second set of numbers.
Which in this case is 0100.
Which equals in real life time my time here on the east coast of 9:00 PM or
2100 hours.
My question is this.
Is that 0100 the time that I should be starting the before start up checklist
and closing the hatches and so on.
Or should I be taking off at 0100 to be able to take off on time?
Question number two.
As you'll see in the little black box report.
Michelle was yelling at me that we were roughly 120 minute late starting up the
pre-flight checklist.
Now Istarted the pre-flight checklist at 12:43:35. So did I have seventeen
minutes until I would have started my before start up checklist, or did I have
seventeen minutes to run down all of the rest of the checklists so that I could
take off on time at 0100?
One last question.
Isn't it a good rule of thumb to start the pre-flight checklist at roughly
25 to 30 minutes before the time of departure or the take off time?
So that we do take off on time.
Also, when Michelle tells me that we now can do the before start up checklist
is the time to start the before start up checklist and to make sure that all of
the hatches are secured and so on.
Which should give us what, a even ten or is it a even fifteen minutes until the
take off time.
Which for this example would be 01:00.
Sorry to be such a pain in the neck.
But how else do we learn if we don't ask these types of questions.
Thanks.
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