Ramapriya wrote:

Is it not possible to have buttons inside the cockpit that perform a
set of checklist actions that pilots normally do at various phases of
flight and save pilots that bother? I'd have thought it nice for a
button to activate an electronic pre-flight check and report an AOK

Actually, the Thielert diesel does exactly this, at least concerning the
power plant and the prop governor. You press a butten, and the system
does a go/no go decision for you. It does so based on a set of engine
parameters which aren't directly accessible to the pilot.

Stefan