GUMPS is just a quick mnemonic to use in addition to your landing checklist to help you remember some of the most essential items during descent to landing. Please, always use your printed checklists!Gas (fullest tank)
Undercarriage (gear down and locked)
Mixture (full rich)
Propeller (high RPM)
Switches (fuel pumps, magneto check, landing lights, etc)
If you're flying a plane with a carbureted engines, you might run the C-GUMPS or Charlie GUMPS checklist. Charlie stands for Carburetor (heat on).
I'd like to reiterate that this is a basic acronym to use in addition to the standard descent, approach, and landing checklists. Mental checklists should not be used as a substitute for an actual checklist.
Have fun. Be safe. Happy Piloting.
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Like Gregory Penglis, whose book (The Complete Guide to Flight Instruction) is one of the best I've ever read, I despise GUMPS. He advocates GMP (Gear, Mixture, Prop).
ReplyDeleteI'll have a blog post about this soon.
Fred, I haven't read that book. Why does Greg have so much disdain for GUMPS? Is it related to its use in lieu of descent and approach checklists? I could agree that your fuel settings and your switches should already be set by the time you're approaching pattern altitude or by IAF and that the rest of your approach could be spent checking courses, looking for traffic, and repeating, "prop high, mixture rich, three in the green."
ReplyDeleteSplitting hairs....
DeleteActually, he doesn't ... just a tongue-in-cheek aversion to unnecessary complications. My latest blog posting has the section about GUMPS from his book.
ReplyDeleteI actually read that yesterday on your blog Fred. For anybody who is interested, you should read Fred's post about the GUMPS checklist.
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