Checklist

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Why would you need a gear check for takeoff?


Corporate pilot picks up the newly painted and upholsterd
Aero
Commander
and didn't check the gear switch.

About half way down the runway (where the bump was) the gear
sucks
up
and the newly painted belly scapes for a while, but the thing
gets
airborne.

Once around the pattern and back to the shop for new belly
skin
and
more paint.

That's why a gear check for takeoff.



Nope, that;'s why a cockpit safety inspection.

Semantics.


No, seperate checklist.

From the C172RG checklist in the POH:

Section 1, item 2. Landing Gear Lever -- DOWN

In the pre takeoff checks?

In the POH I have (1981) it has a section called "checklist
procedures".

It then has:

preflight inspection
before starting engine
starting engine
before takeoff
takeoff
etc.

"Landing Gear Lever -- DOWN" appears in both preflight inspection
and before starting engine.



But not in the before takeoff checks.
It appears in every retactable during the cockpit safety inspection (
your preflight begins with this, though it is not partitioned) And
often before engine start as a precaution. Never seen it in the
before takeoff checks.. You'd probably already know it wasnt down at
that point.

Semantics.


Nope. Different stages of operation distinct from each other.


The 172RG has a single checklist you are supposed to perform before
each flight.

There is nothing called anything near "cockpit safety inspection"
anywhere in it.

YMMV with other POH's.


No, not a POH at all.
So, your preflight checklist includes the runup? Not even a cub does
that.


Bertie