A checklist doesn't mean that you have to do something, just that you should
think about it. Your mention of flaps is a good example...FLAPS should be
part of the landing checklist, and it means "what flap setting, if any?"

This does not contradict my reply to BoDean.

Bob Gardner

"Corky Scott" wrote in message
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On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:16:36 -0500, BoDEAN
wrote:

How many people do / teach doing a full before landing checklist when
doing pattern work? I do with my students, but other cfi's I work with
use a quick / abbreviated one for our Cessna 172/152


I recently gained my PPL. I don't recall doing the landing checklist
in the pattern ever. Even when I first started lessons in 1964 in a
carburated C172 and I was 15 and a half, we didn't use a checklist.
Carb heat was the only "MUST DO".

What's to check? Flaps? You use them or not, depending on the
circumstances. Mixture? Some leave it in the lean position from
cruise all the way down to touchdown, most go to full rich prior to
entering the pattern. Engine was fuel injected so no carb heat to
worry about.

What else is there for the fixed gear 172?

Personally, I'd prefer to keep my eyes outside the cockpit while in
the pattern.

Corky Scott

PS, yes there was a 40 year span during which I did not pursue the
pilot's license.