How Low to Spin??

Herbert Kilian wrote:

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Another comment: poking fun at the use of check-lists in this thread
is very unfortunate.

Herb,

I see the main thrust of references to checklists in this thread as a
denigration of overly detailed checklists, and as a warning against
using checklists in situations where time is of the essence in
responding to an abnormal attitude or condition of flight.

I hope that everyone understands it is the misuse of checklists and not
their proper and very necessary uses at which fun was being poked. Some
immediate action steps must be committed to memory and become second
nature. In many phases of flight, both normal and abnormal, a checklist
is best used as a review.

I think you are right about the conduct of control checks. Anybody
should be able to move the stick as instructed, but only the pilot can
be expected to know the feel of a properly connected system and that
feel is best gained at the control surface.

Assembly, control, and walk-around checks (always performed separately)
seem to me to be the best examples of the "menu" approach to using a
checklist.


Jack