RE: 2009 Basic Narrative
Most all pilots are also callers for their fellow' pilot. One thing I have learned when I went to "calling" the manuever straight from the aresti sheet is: Now there's time for me to look up and help coach my pilot through the maneuver. As an example, my pilot may not see that his humpty is falling off track since his eyes and his plane are so high up and all he sees is blue sky. I can now tell him, " right rudder over the top", and my pilot will do it, trusting me that I've looked down at the treeline or the runway and determined that he's tracking off. If we are reading text from a written sheet the caller will have not have the same amount of time to give "in the manuever" coaching. I used to call off a sheet of text, switch to calling off the aresti a few years ago. Will never go back. I will say, that when I started out, I called off written text though.