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Blanche wrote:

Mike Ash wrote:
David Jacobowitz wrote:
On Sep 22, 8:26*pm, "Tim" wrote:

Use a check list?

An obvious enough answer, but a decent one. My objection is that it
feels like a slippery slope. Will it lead to a getting dressed
checklist, making dinner checklist, etc? :-)

I made a "before leaving the airport" checklist after a couple of stupid
episodes of forgetfulness, including one where I forgot to put my
batteries on charge (not good for a sailplane that can't charge them in
flight!). It's very short, just five items. 1: forget anything in
plane/trailer/on ramp? 2: batteries on charge? 3: big hangar door
properly closed? 4: little hangar door locked? 5: bags in car?

Works well, haven't had any major problems since.

So far it has not led to a "getting dressed" checklist, but I won't rule
out the possibility.

Don't laugh. If I have a "grownup" meeting the next day (e.g. job
interview, high-level managers meeting, vendor meeting, etc) I lay
out all the clothes so I won't miss something in the morning when
I'm not terribly coherent. I speak from experience....One day, many
years ago, I had a very important client meeting. Forgot to grab my
blazer and spent the day feeling under-dressed....

Never again.

Despite saying I don't use a checklist for getting dressed, I do follow
this plan on rare occasions. Normally I do this the night before I plan
to do some winter flying. There's a lot of crap to put on when you're
flying without a heater in cold weather, and I'm usually up well before
the sun and well before my brain. Helps prevent me from searching for
the heavy socks for 20 minutes or realizing I forgot the long underwear
only after I've put everything else on.

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Mike Ash
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