I can’t talk, actually, I’m 7 flights behind in my flight log.

Thanks again, Greg.

Have you ever thought of restructuring your checklists until they make sense and match how you actually fly the airplane? As long as you include everything required by the manufacturer, why does it matter when exactly you check things as long as it gets done? If you’ve checked the fuel on or before your initial descent, switched tanks and done everything necessary to insure the engine/s will have fuel to land, if you don’t find yourself a glider, why check the fuel again? Fly the plane; gear, mixture/s and prop/s before landing; land the plane.

Why do we adapt ourselves to the procedure without question, rather than adapt the procedures to best fit how we fly the airplane? More fodder for discussion…

You can quote me, just don’t put the whole book on line. I do want to keep selling it. That said, if you want to have some fun, ask your fellow pilots to describe how a plane turns, without using bizarre concepts like the horizontal component of lift, and simply describe the turn using only the force of lift from the wings, plus the axis controls of elevator, aileron and rudder, because that’s all there is on the airplane.

For even more fun, ask them to describe how an airplane flies, without using any of the pat definitions used to pass checkrides, or how a garden hose resembles a wing in flight and other absurdities. And then ask them to prove their theory.

We could really have some interesting discussions here.