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Checklists!

• 30 different checklists reviewed

• Shortest: 7 categories, 35 line items

• Longest 12 categories, 166 line items

•Passport

•Phone

•Pants

Short Checklist?

Bullet-proof Your

International Checklist

Who is shooting anyway?

Not on your jet... yet

“I have an overactive

imagination

for bad things happening.”

Right/Wrong

It took 3 hours...

You’re early...

Experienced?

“Experience is the name we

give our mistakes.”

Oscar Wilde

• “Human beings, who are almost unique in

having the ability to learn from the

experience of others, are also remarkable

for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

Douglas Adams

Checklist??????

• Grocery list

• Complex procedures

• Cockpit

• Transfer Responsibility

• Contract future event

Milk=Helicopter

= Did you get one, too? These things will really do

a number on house plants...

Checklists

Building

Construction

Hire an accountants

and an attorney

Surgical Safety

Checklist

Instrument,

sponge,

and needle

counts

An International Checklist:

• Is the checklist that “bites”

• has dynamic uncertainty (depends on unknown

people )

• is a Series of verbal contracts

Your checklist

should be:

• Dynamic

• Evolving

• Comprehensive

• Trip-centric

• Pre-emptive: please protect those

that follow...

you don’t know ...

what you don’t know

d'oh

1.Expresses frustration or anger,

especially at one’s own stupidity.

Gotchas

Gotcha’s

• Never documented in daylight hours

• Rare in Jet aircraft

• Usually only to PAX

• 20,000’ critical

• Rugby ball UFO’s

“leave your ego at

home”

• I’m a lot of trouble. I just do everything

by email for written confirmation.

• But then I call from the plane when I’m

2 hours out.

Customs

“This is the wrong country.”

“Read the package like it

was your trip”

Don’t get lulled

into:

“It will all be taken

care of.”

Feeling rejected?

“Overflight Permit

wasn’t there”

Feeling rejected?

“We had to

circumnavigate their

(country’s) airspace.”

Feeling rejected?

“Leave our airspace,

you cannot land

in our country!”

Food:

Input/output

“Where we gonna eat?”

“The bad news...

no seafood.

The good news...

I saved your life.”

Awesome catering!!!

• Dressing? Hmmmmm...

• Carrot cake...

Pilots love to be famous

• We are out of...

• and...

EAPIS

Flight Planning

Weather

Notams

Landing Permits

Slots

Airplane Documents

SAFA Checklist

Compliance

Customs

Immigration

Quarantine

Ground Handling

Airport security

Falcon

Jet A-1 Fuel must meet the specification for DEF STAN

91-91 (Jet A-1), ASTM specification D1655 (Jet A-1)

and IATA Guidance Material (Kerosene Type), NATO

Code F-35.

Hotels

“What good is it if you don’t

secure the crews?”

Transportation?

Transportation

Trip Planning Cafe

• Today’s Special: Consequences

• (fried, grilled, on a stick)

• Free-range distractions

• Twice baked fatigue

• Fried assumptions

Appetizers:

Trip Planning Cafe

• Confiscation casserole

• Filet of fines

• Hospitalization halibut

• Sides: Embarrassment,

pain, loss of time,

revenue

Entrées

Trip Planning Cafe

• (you are) Forever

famous fudge

sundae

• Food poisoning

smoothie

Desserts

Trip Planning Cafe

Bad case of the “un’s”? • Unprepared

• Undocumented

• Unreliable

• Unsafe

• Unforeseen

• Unthinkable

• Underwear shortage

Gotcha...

Now what?

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

“I have not told half of

what I saw.”

And this is a problem for all who follow...

Secrets of success...

• What’s your secret?

Secrets of success...

• What are your tips, tricks, gotchas, and

stories?

• email iocgotcha@gmail.com

• I will return a complete list of everyone’s

responses.

Faultless execution of

the checklist is the key to

successful international

operations.

Credits and resources:

code7700.com

International-Pilot.com

NBAA Management Guide

Universal Aviation tripplanning checklist

Susan Friedenberg @

Corporate Flight Attendant Training

and dozens of International Captains,

International Service Providers

Schedulers and dispatchers

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