It's all very well for pilots on here to be reminding themselves of how fallible they might be: 'There but for the grace of God go I'... etc. But the famed (and perhaps overstated) Qantas reputation for safety is on a knife-edge here. The challenges visited by COVID on flight crew recency-of-experience notwithstanding, operational checklists have to stand for something, and if the SLF cannot rely on our storied Qantas aircrew to treat checklists seriously, then who can they have confidence in? This small lapse (made less small by the fact that the mistake got past not one pilot, but both) amounts to a frightening derangement of process and a diminution of the general view (whatever it might be) of QF flight crew competence. Deserves to be stated.