Heavy TS - much better than anything I'm likely to write here quickly, particularly in short order: have you come across a book called "The checklist manifesto". It's a surprisingly short and easy read, but I've found a spectacularly good sideways look at good practice in constructing checklists.
A few obvious thoughts however, to some extent inspired by imsa's post
- Are non-essentials in there which will only cause embarrassment, rather than safety problems, if omitted. Is there unnecessary clutter or duplication?
- Do the checks follow a convenient mnemonic and/or linear scan across the cockpit?
- Has the checklist writer clearly decided if it's to be used as (a) read/do, (b) do/confirm, (c) challenge and response ?
- How will it fit within the cockpit management?
- How does it resemble what the crew are used to from prior training and experience? Or, for that matter, will fly later if the aeroplane is an intermediate in flying career progression.
- If pilots fly other aircraft, are the practices interoperable with those?
After that you can start thinking about colour / font / layout which matter, but tend to fall out from a well constructed set of drills in the first place.
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Last edited by Genghis the Engineer; 24th Feb 2016 at 08:04.