Originally Posted by
A Squared
The question I was answering was "Are there checklists in aircraft manuals?" not : "Are the checklists found in aircraft manuals good checklists in a convenient location?"
You are correct, although most of those checklists were crap, embedded in manuals.
There were two seperate ops manuals, the “official” dca, dot, caa, casa (have I missed any?) one and the manufacturers manual, full of interesting stuff (and perhaps some crap checklists)
The fact is though that nobody in the 70s/early 80s took any notice of them! (They did contain good stuff like how to drop the gear as Leadsled said!)
Regarding my own experience, hmm : various singles, travelair, pa23, pa32, baron, c310, pa31, Beagle206!
B747,767,737,a330.
Yep, used a few checklists over the years, just not in 172s, or most of the twins! (I think the navajo had a rolling thing on the control column.)
The original argument was more “do you NEED to use printed checklists” in bugsmashers during a checkflight?my answer would still be no.