I watched a guy one night with a grumman full of passengers close the canopy for a night flight to a nearby airport.
we stand watching....watching.
8 minutes later the campy slides back with the cry. "I can't fly it without a checklist, I think I've got an old one in the hangar."
this a single engine grumman.
they eventually took off and made it to destination ...though I wouldn't have flown with him.
a few years later and a few aircraft later he was flying back under the control zones and ran an engine on the twin out of fuel. they shut down the good engine, crashed and both died.
I'll bet he died frantically trying to find the right section of the checklists.
