Bone head mistakes

[Dave Muller]

Originally Posted by Kevin Panzino

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.

A note on the dash can make a difference alright. In the early 80s I switched from a forward to reverse valve body without missing a beat. But I was young back then.

25 years later, after more than a decade away from racing, I made the same change and repeatedly shifted from first into neutral, losing a couple of first round races in the process.

I solved it by taping a sizable note to the tach that said simply "PULL!" to remind myself to pull the shift lever back rather than push it forward.

I may have looked stupid with that note there but I never missed the shift again.