What's Your Profile?

What’s Your Profile?

ppreidecker

Monday, September 28, 2020 at 11:01 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

Flight profiles are visual guidelines (graphical timelines) that standardize aircraft configurations, speeds, and actions for specific flight phases or maneuvers, serving as a way to visualize Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
They significantly enhance pilot proficiency by building muscle and mental memory, improving situational awareness, and freeing up mental capacity to handle unexpected events, applicable for both multi-crew and single-pilot operations.
To create profiles, pilots should consult official handbooks, keeping them simple and concise, and be prepared to adapt them to real-world operational considerations like ATC instructions.
Consistently using these self-created profiles helps pilots perform routine tasks automatically, leading to safer and more proficient flying.

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Let’s discuss profiles—for flight, not social media—that provide whatto- do-at-each-point guidelines that govern how you fly your airplane.

During an IFR lesson, I often get questions like: “What speed should I be flying before intercepting the localizer?” Or, “When is a good time to put the gear down?” These and many other questions can be answered by developing a set of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Developing a set of profiles is a way to help you visualize SOPs using a simple diagram that you create yourself.