Dear Checkboard
I'm fairly certain that I responded to a VERY similar question in another forum. Maybe my answer wasn't simple enuf? 
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How to fly IFR:
1. Check all notams
1a. Check wx and how big the TS are your going to fly into.
2. Check enroute LSALTS, MSAs, and the height of anything big you could crash into.
2a. Check your EFATO plan
3. Check FOB including IFR reserves. Dont chintz.
4. Check all primary flight instruments and pitot heat before starting engines.
5. Start engines.
6. Check all primary flight instruments again.
7. Taxy onto runway. Check pitot heat on.
8. Take off.
8a. At 200 feet altitude entering the murk, scan like hell!
9. Listen to everything
10. Wait for something to go horribley wrong
11. Hope that nothing goes horribley wrong!
1. Check all notams
1a. Check wx and how big the TS are your going to fly into.
2. Check enroute LSALTS, MSAs, and the height of anything big you could crash into.
2a. Check your EFATO plan
3. Check FOB including IFR reserves. Dont chintz.
4. Check all primary flight instruments and pitot heat before starting engines.
5. Start engines.
6. Check all primary flight instruments again.
7. Taxy onto runway. Check pitot heat on.
8. Take off.
8a. At 200 feet altitude entering the murk, scan like hell!
9. Listen to everything
10. Wait for something to go horribley wrong
11. Hope that nothing goes horribley wrong!
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Slash ... and, somewhere in there (EVERYWHERE in there? 
) scan yer effo too, to make sure the gear and the flap were put away when ya called for it, and that the power is set right! 
) scan yer effo too, to make sure the gear and the flap were put away when ya called for it, and that the power is set right!
