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Old 8th Sep 2013, 16:26
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Checklists

Checklists are not the solution to flight safety. By which I mean, you can't have everything that has to be done in a checklist, or at least if you did, it would be far too long and convoluted.

The more things there are in a checklist, the more likely it is that something will be missed /skipped, and it tends to absolve the user from having to think about what they need to do. Checklists are necessary to cover really important things that if not done, are likely to cause a problem. If those vital actions are buried in a mass of fairly unimportant stuff it becomes likely that one might be missed. There is a definite thing called "checklist fatigue" where the reader starts to tire of the whole process and inevitably gets careless. It is very important to consider human factors and performance when creating checklists, and not just slap anything and everything you can think of into them.

Briefs of course should be relevant and concise (ie not waffly) and include everything the other pilot needs to know in order for him to act as a contributor and checker to the approach, or whatever the next phase of flight is, with the usual CRM rules for communication applying (checking ready to receive beforehand, and checking received and understood afterwards).
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