-----Original Message-----
From: Beavis ]
Posted At: Saturday, September 02, 2006 11:40 AM
Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr
Conversation: Can EFIS / EFMS lead to removing basic safety checks?
Subject: Can EFIS / EFMS lead to removing basic safety checks?

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Did you align the IRUs in your 152 before you started moving? Check
the
landing gear doors as part of your walk-around? Of course not,
because
they're not appropriate procedures for THAT AIRPLANE. See what I'm
getting at?

I see what you saying about specific procedures for particular aircraft,
but shouldn't heading cross-checks be basic airmanship?

In the analog aircraft that entails manually setting the DG when
cross-checking with the runway and compass. Having not flown and EFIS /
EFMS equipped aircraft, my question was is there a similar cross-check
or has the system negated that necessity. It seems from the answers that
the heading cross-check is no longer manual or an actual checklist item,
so the system has eliminated that safety check.

Now the question becomes, would a checklist item have caught the
complacency if that is truly what the root cause of the LEX accident
turns out to be?