I have seen some really good points being made here. I am now in an airline that has a different way of using the checklists. It isn't a bad way, just new to me.
They use a geographic scan/flow for the drills and the checklist only "checks" what is "important", ie potentially endangering. It streamlines the workload. There is nothing worse than sitting on the runway with about 15 items to "check".....I have found it works pretty well as the training captains emphasise the "why" we do the various items.
That is the main thing, get across to the student "why" you do such and such.
Some of the worst checklists I have encountered are in some flying schools because they think that is how the airlines do it. Why was the checklist bad? There was way too many items on it and it was shown to me as a "read and do". The only checklist that I use now that is a "read and do" is out of the QRH and it is the reference items. The only drills that are memorised are the emergency recall items.
QRH = Quick reference handbook.
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