Finding yourself in any aircraft at low level with no power and your only option is to choose the least painful place to crash is not nice, so training is designed to reduce the risk as much as possible. Pretty much in gliding the check list is standardised.
C Controls full and free
B Ballast within limits
S Seatbelts on and tight
I Instruments. All OK
F Flaps set for TO
T Trim set for TO
C Canopy closed and locked
B Airbrakes close and locked
E Eventuallities, what are you going to do something goes wrong
Additionally for the wing man to shout
Rope on and secure
Brakes closed and locked
Training has reduced accidents substantially in recent years, dont let standards slip.