In article "vaughn" writes:

"kirk.stant" wrote in message
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This is my equivalent of the classic GUMP check, beloved of all power
pilots.

Well, perhaps not "beloved" everywhere, or even universlly taught any more.
I converted to SEL about 5 years ago, and no mention was ever made of any
standard or pneumonic memorized checklist for anything except emergencies.
Never once did I check the wheels of my Cessna on downwind. Instead, we used
model-specific checklists. In my experience, these laminated checklists are
commonly found in most rental aircraft. Model-specific checklists are available
for common aircraft at most any pilot's store. www.checkmateaviation.com

When I learned in 1976, the instructors were fairly clear about using the
standard checklist for the aircraft model, from the book. Anything else
was considered suspect, and possibly illegal. GUMP seemed obsolete then,
and was never taught by anyone I have encountered.


This is what got me thinking about why that might be, and how it might apply
to glider training.

It amazed me when I encountered strings of letters when I started in gliders a
couple of years ago.

Alan