Full before landing checklist in the pattern?

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:06:23 GMT, "Bob Gardner"
wrote:

A checklist doesn't mean that you have to do something, just that you should
think about it. Your mention of flaps is a good example...FLAPS should be
part of the landing checklist, and it means "what flap setting, if any?"

This does not contradict my reply to BoDean.

Bob Gardner

I wasn't commenting on your message, I was responding to the original
post.

My experience has been that other than flaps and mixture, with the
fuel injected engined 172's there's nothing else to adjust.

You pretty much cannot land the airplane without thinking about the
flaps, or at least I can't, so digging out the checklist and reading
"set flaps", or whatever it says seems unnecessary to me at a time
when you want to be concentrating on holding pattern altitude, your
position in regards the runway, airspeed and traffic.

Complex airplanes would of course be different, but the question was
stated in regards "Cessna 172/152."

Corky Scott