Script for Life
PM: “Making power, power is even.”
PM: “Airspeed alive.”
PM: “80 knots.”
PF: “My yoke.”
PM: “Your yoke.”
PM: “V1.”
PM: “VR.”
PM: “Positive rate on two.”
PF: “Gear up.”
PM: “Selecting gear up.”
PM: “Gear is up.”
PM: “Clean wing speed.”
PF: “Clean the wing.”
PM: “Cleaning the wing.”
PM: “Wing is clean.”
PM: “Speed limit is 250 knots.”
PM: “Out of 10,000 feet, no speed limit.”
I was serving as the required copilot and pilot monitoring (PM) for Martha, who was captain and pilot flying (PF) on this trip in our old Falcon 10. These were my callouts and my responses to the pilot flying on our takeoff.
Pilots in training to be a copilot, or pilot
