Full before landing checklist in the pattern?

"BoDEAN" wrote in message
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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 do not have my students reading or referring to printed checklists while
in the pattern, however I insist that they use them for specific phases of
flight, for example, Level Off, Cruise, Arrival, Approach, etc. Strangely,
there is a flight school in our area that specializes in light twin training
and they did , and might still, have students referring to a written
checklist on takeoff and climbout, they might also do this while in the
pattern also. Kinda scary to think about. I would much rather have someone
looking out of the window for traffic and keeping a simple, light, workload
while in the pattern. Besides making sure that the lights are on, the
gauges are green, mixture is set properly and that the carb ht. is set what
else is there? No gear, no cowl flaps, no prop setting, no tanks to switch,
no autopilot, no spoilers, no pres/diff, nothing to arm etc. besides the
guys who have these things take care of them when in range and before they
enter the pattern.
Happy Flying R.Wallace