Overly complex checklists in a simple aircraft are sometimes used "because it is preparing the student for more complex aircraft."
Horsefeathers.
Why include "Hatches and harnesses" in the pre-landing checks of an aircraft that cannot open a hatch or door in flight, and you never take your harness off??
Why include "Frictions - as required" for the cyclic and collective friction in the chopper, when you cannot have arrived on downwind from a cruise or climb if the frictions are ON??
Why keep "Compass - slaved" in the checks when we NEVER move the switch from Slaved to Free, and having checked it in the pre-start checks, there is no further need to look at it? And anyway, with the new glass screens, this switch has disappeared, and the standby gyro doesn't have a slave switch either.
If we are REALLY training for bigger machines, why don't the skid-equipped aircraft have a check for retracting after takeoff and lowering before landing?
Keep it REEEEEALLY simple, remove superfluous fluff.