Valuable Mnemonics
mikehallam - (your 7819)
I'm with you, regardless of whether the gear is fixed or folding, I do my BUMPFFH checks out loud, looking at, or touching, the appropriate item and, if in a high wing aircraft, at the "U" check I look out of the side window and say "I have a wheel" and expect the person in the right hand seat to give me the same response (providing that it is there,of course)! I don't think that this is silly at all, wheels have been known to fall off fixed gear aircraft on more than one occasion.
Happy Landings
Ian BB