The subject of the original thread was to
avoid attempting a takeoff, with proper flaps setting or configuration and not to discuss the merit of the old or new checlists, and airline individual procedures.
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No matter how excellent your checklists, or updates, or SOPs are, I say again, for those who fail the ability to read that TRIM - FLAPS - SPOILERS verified (the 3 killers) upon line-up is the
only guarantee that you will survive and not bend some metal at the other end of your runway.
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I can take
any and all threads here in this forum, and demonstrate that, if you fail to do as I recommend, may lead you to disaster. If you want your name to be in the accident statistics, continue to show "how superior" your check-lists and procedures are (or claim to be superior...)
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I do not claim this to be my own invention, but I survived F-104s (without the help of challenge and responses, and the luxury of a F/O), instructing pilots for type rating in Learjets ("Fearjets") and pulling engines to idle at V1 and still survived. If I am alive today, and the 500 passengers and crew in 747, I owe it to the "3 killers", and not to the semantics of "before takeoff checklists" (old or new edition) properly completed.
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In the "old days" - I am convinced that training was properly administered. This might make you laugh. but did you know that when I was 16 of age, learning to fly a Piper J-3C-65 Cub, my instructors forced me to say "
gear down - landing checks" at the end of downwind, turning to base...? No matter how ridiculous it seems to you, (what gear...?), THAT was the proper training techniques then, which I continue to foster.
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I am not a "Geek" lost in playing computer GPS and FMS games when I line-up on the runway, and I dont give a damned if "Suzy" has, or has not come to the flight deck, to tell me that the "cabin is ready"... If they spill their Martinis, "frankly, dear, I dont give a damn..." - Quote from "Gone with the wind" - regardless on how gusty that wind was...
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Happy contrails