Beavis wrote:

In article jchKg.2674$c07.2060@fed1read04,
Sam Spade wrote:


In the modern jets and many GA airplanes too the DG automaticly aligns
the correct magnetic heading. Checking the EFIS heading prior to take
off was not on our companies checklist.


It should not have to be on any company's checklist. Some things are
basic airmanship.


No, they're equipment-specific procedures. Doing a mag check prior to
takeoff is not "basic airmanship" either, nor is realigning the DG every
15 minutes. They're specific procedures required by specific equipment,
and neither is relevant on a modern turbine-powered airplane.

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 think the context of the thread is air carrier equipment. Virtually
all airliners have heading bugs. They all had them at my airline when I
signed on in 1964, and that continued to the 767.