Interesting.
We've just been subjected to a revision of the airbus pre-take off cx list. What a diatribe it is now.
I used to fly a jet that required very little in cx listing. However, on taxiing on to the tin strip:
FUEL (er, enough?)
FLAPS (anywhere but up)
ARM MASTERS (ON)
STO STOP (set)
TRIM (set)
WATER (armed)
..life savers. I still do it now, in the back of my mind, lining up on 27R etc, LHR.
nurj