I must be being taught wrong then, as everyone one of my instructors has taught me checks to do, both on the ground and in the air. I've even been made aware that I should call out my checks when doing them in the test as otherwise the examiner presumes you have not done them.
I asked a simple question to see if anyone had a quick acronym on the line up, but as I must be holding up all that traffic on final I will from now on go and then just hope I'm on the correct runway and that the plane will sort itself out with any cross wind as apparently I am wasting others time by looking at the wind sock.
It's intersting to see that what one considers "Good Airmanship" others consider "Bad Airmanship".
Camel Toe
"Over Macho Grande?"