so what is the point of having anything written on it.
There's a category of things you simply have to know by heart. 121.5, 7700, the format of an emergency/pan/pass your message call, that sort of thing. Then there's a category of things you need to prepare for each flight. Plog, frequencies, airport plates and so forth.
But there's also stuff that you might need occasionally but not every time, and if you need it you generally have no time to look them up. Interception procedures, light gun signals, marshalling procedures, the morse alphabet, wake turbulence wait times. That's the stuff I want to have permanently printed or laminated on my kneeboard.
As for aircraft specific checklists - I fly about four different types regularly and have a laminated checklist for each of them. This clips onto the kneeboard but I'm not going to laminate them there. And of course I have blank paper or plog templates to record tacho and other times.
So what do we have so far?
- I AM SAFE checklist
- Space to write the various license expiry dates
- Checklist for flight prep (A/C reservation, plog, MET, Flightplan, NOTAMs, Aircraft problem reports, customs/immigration, ...)
- Mandatory paperwork checklist (aircraft & personal)
- Pax briefing
- Phonetic alphabet & morse code
- Light gun signals
- Interception procedures
- Marshalling signals
- List of important/common frequencies
- List of important/common telephone numbers
- CAA landing/takeoff factors
- Wake turbulence hold times
- Low flying rules
- VMC minima
- Quadrantical and semi-circular rules
- Holding procedures? (More useful for IFR I'd say.)
- Conversion tables?