Larry Dighera wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:46:47 -0700 (PDT), "Ol Shy & Bashful"

Do you rehearse it or practice it while the pressure
is off? If not, why not? What do you use for immediate action and why?

This is the first I've heard of that term. Are you referring to
emergency procedures contained in the aircraft's POH?

I think he's referring to immediate action in the sense that if you're
on takeoff--he mentioned 200'-- and you lose power, you don't have time
to fish out the POH and run through the checklist.

Actually, of course, that should be done beforehand. You already know
you're at T/O power, mixture rich, prop forward, fuel pump on, engine
instruments green, mags both and flaps at recommended setting because
you (theoretically) verified that right before launching, and either you
just retracted your gear or you haven't yet (or they're fixed.)

That simplifies things, and you'd be wasting seconds by referring to a
checklist of things you just completed.

And since you've already considered what's downrange and where you're
going to put it if it fails on takeoff, the actual checklist of
immediate action items is going to be very small, and you ran through
that before rolling onto the runway already (Establish best glide,
gear/no gear, flaps, fuel, electrical, door, don't panic, fly, etc.)

Seems like you could make a pretty succinct kneeboard checklist so
you're not wasting time flipping anything.

-c