22 Nov
2011
22 Nov
'11
9:14 p.m.
On 22 Nov 2011, at 8:43 PM, David Riley wrote:
On Nov 22, 2011, at 7:56 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
To be fair, not all of the checklists I use while flying are written. Run-up, departure,
approach and pre-landing, yes; configuration changes, no -- they're more like a
mantra. There's also one that gets chanted aloud with brake release and another that
gets repeated on short final. Initial emergency checklists have always been committed to
memory, although I did have occasion to break out the "emergency procedures --
amplified" checklist on one occasion when I lost the engine in a single-engine
aircraft at FL200. It wasn't like I was going to be going anywhere for a while, so I
figured I might as well read the line of jive.
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"Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration..."
You bet. There's a *reason* why pilots use
long written checklists - no matter what their age or self-confidence.
Well. Some pilots with excessive self-confidence don't use the checklists. They
don't do that for long, though.