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Miguel Diaz
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- Name:
- Miguel
- State/Country:
- California / Baja Califrornia
- School Name:
- Embry-Riddle Prescott
- Major:
- Aeronautical Science(Professional Pilot)
- Participant Status:
- Current Student
- ERAU Class Of:
- 2013
- Hobbies:
- Martial arts weapons
Volleyball
Some writing and reading
Snowboarding
Ping Pong
- About Me:
- like to meet new people.....
very cliche i know...
but it's the truth
- Future Goals:
- Become a private or airline pilot
Save enough to buy my own plane
Travel the world
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Comment Wall (37 comments)
- At 2:50am on August 31, 2009,
Melissa Barnett said… - I dont know whats wrong with my phone, I'm pretty sure it works fine.
I really like hiking, that would be fun.
I'm in room 306 hall 2
- At 2:16pm on August 30, 2009,
Melissa Barnett said…
- I don't think I'm going to go to the pool party today, I might though. I'll let you know If I do. but sometime we should go bike riding, I brought my bike and I haven't been able to find anyone else with a bike. The other day I went around the lake too, It was a cool trail, but it would be more fun not by myself.
- At 3:42am on August 30, 2009,
Melissa Barnett said…
- Hey! I was at the Grand Canyon today. It was so beautiful. How have you been?
- At 9:43pm on August 29, 2009,
Aline Rodrigues said… - I used to do tae kwon do..here in the states and then I lived in South Korea for a year and did it there too...awesome...and for the last two years I have been doing capoeira..you can find capoeira anywhere in the world...I love it
- At 3:23pm on August 27, 2009,
Neil Jensen said… - 907-382-3901
no prob man.
- At 5:32pm on August 26, 2009,
Aline Rodrigues said…
- What kind of martial arts do you do?
- At 7:22pm on August 8, 2009,
Raul said… - I have a car...people get rides off me too haha. I don't think you need a bicycle in terms of transportation, the campus is really really small. People that have bikes often use it to go out to ride on the trails in some hills about a mile from the campus. If you have a bike though it wouldn't hurt to bring it though in case your friends have bikes and want to go out riding.
- At 5:48am on August 8, 2009,
Raul said…
- No problem. I think the checklists should be enough to worry about in the meantime, haha. I need to review them myself, it's been a while.
Just go in and do the best you can both at the flight line and in the classes. Do you want to fly for the airlines? Keep a goal and stick to it---times might get tough but if you always keep that goal in the back of your mind, you'll be able to pull through anything. That'll keep you most motivated to succeed.
What hall are you gonna live at? If it's in the mingus, be ready for the fire alarms... I remember people would pull them all the time especially the first few weeks at like 3AM. One night we had it go off 3 times. It sucked...hopefully this year the freshmen will be more mature.
Are you gonna bring a car?
- At 4:21am on August 7, 2009,
Raul said…
- There are two types of checklist methodology. There is the "read/do" and the "do/verify". The "read/do" is simply that, you read the line item and perform the action. The "do/verify" method is when you configure the aircraft from memory (flow check) and verify that all items have been accomplished by backing it up with the checklist.
Here is the C172 G1000 checklist:
http://flight.pr.erau.edu/docs/ERAU%20Manuals/C172_NAV_III_CHECKLIST_R01-08.pdf
You don't need to memorize the "preflight" part of the checklist. This is where the "read/do" method is used---you'll go down the checklist and perform each item as you do the preflight.
You need to memorize the "normal" part of the checklist. This is where the "do/verify" method is used---you'll perform each line item as a flow by memory for the appropriate phase of flight (before start, before taxi, climb, cruise, etc). Once you perform each line item by memory, you will back it up by using the checklist.
In the "emergency/abnormal" part of the checklist, you only need to memorize the line items in the bold boxes and perform those actions as a flow by memory. As for the line items not in bold, you can pull out your checklist (read/do).
For now, memorizing the flows for the "normal" part of the checklist ahead of time will save time and stress.
Here is the SOPA:
http://flight.pr.erau.edu/docs/ERAU%20Manuals/C172_NAV_III_Sopa_Rev_01-08.pdf
It includes the checklists in more detail and has a flow diagram for each checklist (before start, before taxi, cruise, in-range, etc) to practice. Looking at the flow diagrams/checklists and studying off of that is the best way to go for now.
Haha.. sorry for such a long response. It's just that I had a tough time with memorizing the flows when I first started... I wish I would have known of all this ahead of time and gotten a head start.
Let me know if you have any more questions!
- At 10:50pm on August 6, 2009,
Raul said…
- my first year went by very well. my roommates were awesome so that definately helps. i was in hall 3 in mingus so there were six of us total. time flies the year went by so fast.
freshman year isn't so bad. the hardest part was memorizing all the checklists and flows for the airplane in the first week or so. my roommates and I would stay up late at night, memorizing/practicing flows from a poster of a C172 cockpit on the wall.
i paid everything on loans. it was the only way i could afford it. there are people here that pay it from their pocket, but that's a lot of money! I am getting a grant of $6000 each year, as long as I maintain a good GPA, because of my good grades in high school.
to keep your costs as low as possible, it would be best to do the very best you can in your flying, such as memorizing checklists even before you arrive at ERAU. they're available on flight.pr.erau.edu. the less lesson repeats you do, the less money you spend extra. you might feel a bit overloaded at times, but that is normal because the flight program is high paced and requires a bit of studying/reviewing on your own time.
if you have any more questions i'll be glad to answer them! see you around.
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