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Flip Tab Checklist

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Fri Apr 18, 2025 8:29 pm

Re: Flip Tab Checklist

https://i.postimg.cc/vZkCXK1s/IMG-6679.jpg

This is what we used on the 727 years ago, worked beautifully! Items could be accomplished in any order, when the tabs were all slid over “checklist complete”.
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Sat Apr 19, 2025 4:17 pm

Re: Flip Tab Checklist

Personally, I don’t want to fly a GA airplane so complex it needs a checklist.

I flew complex large helicopters hard IMC with role specific equipment, and their checklist was only one page.

But, it’s your hobby and enjoy it on your own terms.
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Sat Apr 19, 2025 4:23 pm

Re: Flip Tab Checklist

AZ Flyer wrote:Looking good!

Here is another idea to build on what you have made.

What if there were two tabs in each space? … have another set of tabs behind the go down checklist, that are emergency checklist.… They could have red titles for emergency situations, such as engine fire, loss of power, etc.(maybe even a tab or two on the right for non-pilots to follow during piloting incapacitation or something like that)… When you have an emergency, you simply flip up the appropriate tab and have that emergency checklist right there in red to follow :-)



Almost like a rolladex checklist. I like the idea, but it will probably be bulkier and definitely more complex. I'll have to think about how to go about it.
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Sat Apr 19, 2025 4:56 pm

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Karmutzen wrote:Personally, I don’t want to fly a GA airplane so complex it needs a checklist.

I flew complex large helicopters hard IMC with role specific equipment, and their checklist was only one page.

But, it’s your hobby and enjoy it on your own terms.


I get this opinion, but I'm already weird in that I derive satisfaction from a verbose checklist. I'm expecting doubly so when I can flip the tabs of accomplishment.
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Sat Apr 19, 2025 5:59 pm

Re: Flip Tab Checklist

Karmutzen wrote:Personally, I don’t want to fly a GA airplane so complex it needs a checklist.

I flew complex large helicopters hard IMC with role specific equipment, and their checklist was only one page.

But, it’s your hobby and enjoy it on your own terms.


That’s all aircraft for the most part, even a J3, doesn’t mean it has to be huge, like one half page laminated will work all the way up to most turbines

Mostly it’s a matter of discipline and how surgical and un-sloppy you want to be in your flying

In my little no electrics 7AC even though no one will ever know I get bothered if I’m off in altitude 10’, if I’m not exactly on centerline, if I don’t fly to my own procedure, etc

Maybe I’m a sadist, but I enjoy holding myself to a higher standard, aim for perfection settle for precision
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