Originally Posted by
pineteam
We still don’t use the new checklist but I don’t see why you need to double or triple check. Just one quick look at the landing gears indicator is enough. I guess it’s just a matter of adaptation. In my previous job where we were flying all sort of old high performance twin pistons with no Ecam memo or gears warning ( some of them it was broken) we were not using any checklist. No operators were using them as they are horrendously way too long. Just one Mnemonic for departure and final. Never had any issues. =) Mnemonics are so underrated IMHO.
It's not that is needed, but old habits indeed die hard. In the back of your head, you know you lost a safety net if you forget to raise the gear (even though I haven't done such thing in all of my years of flying retractable gear aircraft), so you check again. But in the end, I concur with
compressor stall , the thing with all changes is that they make you think, they get you out of robot mode, which can be a dangerous thing in the right (or wrong) day.
And I think it's a good thing; technology improves so things can be done differently. I remember the DC-9/MD-80 checklist for the first flight of the day was something like a 3 page ordeal... I can only imagine it would likely be easier (procedural-wise) to start the Lunar Module on the Apollo ships