Mixtures, Masters, Mags and Cowl Flaps Not applicable. WTF?

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Works for me every time! With tmpfisch ingrained into your subconciousness, (big word, that) it wil work for you in everything up to and including a Metro, even tho it would not be the "äpproved" checklist.

Ditto! I have used a slight variation - T M P F F I H C L - on everything up to PA31/C402 for the last 38 years.

Dr

[Checkboard]

How can you possibly put the C after the H.

Don't you know how dangerous that is?





P.S. ... thanks for all the lifts to the Charleville airport, BTW

[A37575]

One You Tube sent to me the other day there is a classic photo of a single engine float equipped amphibian coming in to landed on water. The problem is his wheels are down. He floats, touches down and digs in going inverted in a huge splash. Pilot and passengers got out and were rescued by a nearby small boat.

Rumour has it the pilot had been trained to fly using the before landing checks in a fixed gear aircraft where he called Undercarriage down and locked even though it was a Cessna fixed gear. Seems that bad habit caught up him since his pre-landing in the float plane should have been undercarriage UP and locked.

[43Inches]

Can you gents show me the trail of destruction and the piles of bodies
resulting from these practices?

Quite simply pretty much every time an aircraft has crashed due to being in the wrong configuration on take-off or landing it is due to the pilot(s) not following a checklist appropriately. This in many cases is due to forgetting items because they are committed to memory rather than critical items on a paper checklist or beleiving an item was completed without checking it appropriately (still comes back to a slip of the mind/memory). The common PA31 issue of taking off on outboards should never happen if a paper checklist is used for the before take-off checklist. Why does this problem still occur untill today, because of rushed memory recalled checks not backed up with an appropriate checklist carried out with care.

Written checklists are good, but I'm a lil unsure that I am comfortable using them single pilot at a busy strip.

High workload situations are where memory based checks are most likely to break down. The written checklist should be short and to the point. You can use a generic BUMP, flow or whatever checklist to carry out items from memory then have a short critical items written list to confirm the critical items.

An simple written before landing / downwind checklist for an arrow would be something like;

Fuel Selector - FULLEST TANK
Fuel pump - ON
Mixture - RICH
Propeller - FULL INCREASE
Landing Gear - DOWN 3 GREENS INDICATED

If you preformed all these items from memory (doesn't matter what you use to recall it) first then the paper check should only take a few seconds to verify your work.

If you are really worried about how busy a circuit is, carry out the checks earlier rather than later.

[The Green Goblin]

There is a lot more to flying a Metro than TIMPFISH or BUMPFISH

In fact it's probably one of the busier aircraft when flown multi crew due to the nature of the ergonomics of the thing and the fact one of you are hand flying on raw data.

Love them or hate them, most folk who have metro time are all the better for it!