How many people do / teach doing a full before landing checklist when
doing pattern work? I do with my students, but other cfi's I work with
use a quick / abbreviated one for our Cessna 172/152

Hi BoDean

I do, and I believe that CFI's should teach this. Here is why.
Forget the 152/172 for the purpose of this discussion. To better and more
obviously illustrate the point let's assume that we are in a retractable.
If on every single approach we know that the gear is up, then we know, and
are reminded by our checklists, to put it down prior to landing. But what
if we are just doing pattern work, and decide not to raise the gear on
takeoff? Now we have created a scenario where on final approach our gear
is no longer guaranteed up. It may be up and it may be down - and one day
we'll get it wrong - we didn't need to create that situation!
Now to go back to your 152/172 Scenario. If everything is always a given,
we know where we stand. But if we teach students one way in a circuit, and
another way on a cross country, then we are sowing the seeds of confusion.
Something that we don't need on final, when we are tired after a long
flight.
So - the pre-landing checklist for a 172 is no big deal. It isn't being
abbreviated for the students benefit, therefore it must be being
abbreviated because the instructor can't be bothered with the workload.
That shouldn't be happening.

That's my 2 - 3 cents worth

--
Tony Roberts )
PP-ASEL
VFR-OTT - Night
Cessna 172H