Preflight

Planning
True Virgins Make Dull Company: True course +/- Variation = Magnetic course +/- Deviation
= Compass course

East is Least, West is Best: From true to magnetic, subtract east variation, add west variation
People in the East are Odd: VFR Cruising Altitudes.

Cockpit documents
AROW: Airworthiness Certificate, Registration, Operating Handbook, Weight and Balance Data

Personal checklist
I'M SAFE: Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue, Eat
DEATH: Military version: Drugs, Exhaustion, Alcohol, Tobacco (hypoxia), Hypoglycemia

VFR minimum equipment
Day: TOMATO FLAMES: Tachometer, Oil pressure, Magnetic compass, ASI, Temp sensor (if water-cooled), Oil temp (if air-cooled), Fuel gauges, Landing gear indicator, Altimeter, Manifold pressure (if required), ELT, Seatbelts and Shoulder harness

Night, add FLAP: Fuses, Light (anticollision), Alternator, Position lights

ATIS
IWARN: Information, Winds, Altimeter, Runway, NOTAMS

Runup and ground check
CIGAR: Controls, Instruments, Gas, Attitude (surfaces), Runup
FLARE: Flaps, Lights, Aux fuel pump, Radar (transponder), engine (lean for high altitude)

Inflight

Altimeter warning
HALT: High Altimeter (caused by) Low Temperature
From high to low,(hot to co',) look out below!

Check before maneuver practice
HASEL: Height, Area, Secure, Engine, Lookout

Compass behavior
ANDS: Accelerate North, Decelerate South
UNOS: Undershoot North, Overshoot South
NOSE: North Opposite, South Exceeds
NAGS/SEADS: North Lags, South Leads
In the southern hemisphere, SAND and ONUS.

Pre-landing

CGUMP: Carb heat, Gas, Undercarriage, Mixture,
Primer (Propeller with a constant-speed prop)

CGUMPS: add Seatbelts and/or Switches (ignition and master)

After Landing

FACTS: Flaps up, Aux fuel pump off, Cowl flaps, Transponder off, Switches off
FLARE: Flaps up, Lights off, Aux fuel pump off,
Radar transponder off, ELT check

Securing:
MIDGET: Master off, Ignition off, Doors/Windows locked, Gust lock, ELT off, Tiedown

Emergency

Forced Landing
COWLS: Communication, Obstacles, Wind, Length, Surface

Go-around
CCCC: Cram it (throttle), Clean it (flaps), Cool it (carb and cowl), Call it

Lost procedures
CCCCC: Climb, Communicate, Confess, Comply, Conserve

Transponder codes
Seventy five, taken alive
Seventy seven, going to heaven