Originally Posted by
pls8xx
Your mind can play tricks on you. Look at an instrument hundreds of times where the light is always green, say the word "check". One day the light will be yellow, but your mind will anticipate "green". You are apt to say "check" and move on. But if you have been saying "green" and one day the light is yellow, when you look at the instrument and say green, your eyes say yellow and your mind rebels. For it to work you must be looking at the light at the instance you say the word.
I like the way you think. Running checklists and doing things by rote time after time after time leads to exactly what you state. My company required exact phraseology for each response and many of them were "check". Before I retired, I used to give the copilots fits because I did exactly what you recommend rather than the rote "check". Whenever I did it by rote, the words flowed out in perfect order but they didn't always agree with what I had answered for.