Checklists
The benifit of Checklists have long been debated one way or another. For pilots using differant types or even models of aircraft, how can anyone remember all the Abnormal and Emergency checks from memory? when you may be required to be flying two or three types, especially when an emergency has not come up for some time, will you remember everything?
On a dark and stormy night when you wish you were home in bed and things go from bad to worse, this is not the time to be trying to fly the aircraft and read a checklist at the same time and, even harder if you are on your own.
There is now help for some of us who wish to have a long life without too much stress.
There is a company now making low cost Electronic Checklists that are programmable and will turn text into speech, they have Normal, Emergency, Abnormal and Custom checks, most checks accessable from two control wheel buttons.
It's like having a co-pilot helping to keep things under control.
Last edited by BRL; 14th Oct 2003 at 23:26.