Master: If that is OFF you know your panel is dead, you cant talk to anyone,
Mags: Never seen one vibrated off before but someone probably has, but if you were tought to do a proper mag check you could not accidently leave it on one or none, because you would have done it at cruise power and LOP.....because that is the only proper mag check you can do.....END OF STORY!
Harnesses and hatches (in a lighty that really means glove boxes and items in the cabin put away and not easy projectiles.
Fuel on the fullest tank makes lots of sense. Pump on or as required for a/c type.
Undercarriage...used on downwind to get speed down to flap extension.....two solved at once.
Prop, leave it where it was in the cruise, no need for extra noise, and if you need it for braking, well you cocked up your descent profile, so only use it if you really have to.
You could get away with landing most aircraft with mixture at cruise setting
You
SHOULD BE landing most aircraft with mixture at cruise setting. Or only the tiniest of increments of enrichening on descent, and often no more than half a turn. End of Story.
And in the extremely rare event of a missed approach, you are still flying at Vs x 1.3, you think to yourself, hmmmmissed approach = red knob in, blue knob in, and gently increased throttle while retrimming and considering flap retraction at the appropriate time, and all the while increasing the MP to effect a smooth safe GA without violent pitches up, loss of vision etc etc.
It is not a complicated game, but most if not all flying schools seem to make it so, and have no idea on why when challenged!
