slim,
Thanks, but no, I didn't need to be reminded ... it's not part of the drill that I was taught, or practice, in my current aircraft. Whether it should be is, of course, another matter.
Certainly most people (no matter how experienced or highly trained) will forget items in the stress of a genuine emergency, and I fully agree that having a checklist to review, just in case, would be desirable.
However, I can't really conceive of any emergency that would permit me sufficient time to review a checklist, especially whilst flying the airplane. It's a great concept for large two-pilot airplanes (where one pilot flies and the other one troubleshoots), but I just don't see it as being very practical for single-pilot operations. I'd rather forget to deactivate some switch than stall the aircraft at low altitute because I had my head down in the cockpit.