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Old 14th Jan 2004, 01:09
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Big Pistons Forever
 
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While in the circuit I once had a wasp come out a C150 wing root airvent. Another time a student puked all over the instrument panel obscuring most of the instruments . Because of those incidents I did not subsequently add to my prelanding checklist

Wing air vents -------- close

or


Puke Bag -------------- give to student



So why would I put something on the checklist that has NEVER in 5000 hrs, happened to me. I think you have to be carefull about invoking the " safety " word. Safety does not come from mindlessly following a printed list , it comes from fully understanding the relavance of each checklist item and always maintaining the correct priority of actions at any given time throughout the flight.
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