Landing Checklist

"None" wrote in message
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Our club has adopted this landing checklist

U undercarriage
S speed
T trim
A airbrakes
R radio intention
E enter pattern

Plug in water, flaps, etc. if you need it. The emphasis is to have it
done and not be doing it along the downwind legl.

My personal feeling is that a landing checklist should be specific to the glider
and therefore not include items that make no sense for that particular glider.
My reason: Training a new student in a fixed-gear trainer to recite
"undercarriage" on each landing AND THEN DO NOTHING is to set them up for future
wheels-up landings when they do finally fly retractables.

We can expect them to fly the way they have been trained. If they are trained
to recite and then ignore certain checklist items, that habit will carry over to
future flying.

Vaughn