Expatbrat, I beg to differ, in the flying I now do,{by the way, ex military, airline, flight testing ,charter company owner}} there is simply no place for reading checklists,{ excluding the "clean up' items after a failure of some kind of course} nor is there a need to use them, flow checks, ridged discipline on vital actions will, along with a REAL understanding of aircraft systems, get the job done without landing with the wheels in the wells. For myself, I just cant believe the nonsense which passes for checklists in some operations, such things as "call ground control after landing", have SFA to do with OPPERATING the aircraft, and just become background noise after time, I recently listened to an overseas operators last few minutes alive, the root cause of their demise was getting blindly into an electronic checklist which inhibited all the important stuff and intelligent thought, such as what are we doing and what are we headed for? in this case it was a pile of solid rocks, a simple in range check would have done the job, without the sudden stop! As Chuck stated, when I'm headed at a power line at the end of the field in our Ag Cat, deciding whether to go under or over, I doubt even you would be reading a checklist! Mind you, it cant be landed gear up unless you wiped the gear of on said power line.