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Old 06-03-2018, 03:02 PM   #7
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Default Re: Bone head mistakes

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Originally Posted by Kevin Panzino View Post
Only sure fire way is to have a checklist.

For 99.9999999999999999999999999% of the time, your flight gets you to your destination safely, your lights at home are on, and your military is as effective as it is from the use and rigid adherence to checklists.

Make a short one with all the key actions, and tape it to the dashboard. Make it a point to use it every time. It would have caught your miss.
Like Kevin says, checklists will save you lots of grief!
When I was still at Boeing, there were written checklists or procedures for almost everything.
We even had a doctor that spent time at Boeing learning about checklists so he could apply the same to the surgery room, thus reducing errors during surgeries.
His book, The Checklist Manifesto, became a best seller:

https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Man.../dp/0312430000

http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers...er/i_bca05.pdf

This is an example of a checklist for an airline pilot getting ready to take-off on a Boeing 737-800...

https://flyuk.aero/assets/downloads/...ECKLIST-V2.pdf

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