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2. Preflight checklist - Wikipedia

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   In aviation, a preflight checklist is a list of tasks that should be performed by pilots and aircrew prior to takeoff. Its purpose is to improve flight safety by ensuring that no important tasks are forgotten. Failure to correctly conduct a preflight check using a checklist is a major contributing factor to aircraft accidents. [1]

3. GUMPS - Wikipedia

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   GUMPS is an acronym widely used by retractable gear aircraft pilots as a mental checklist to ensure nothing critical has been forgotten before landing. Its popularity is widespread, appearing in flight student curricula, FAA publications and aviation magazines. [1] [2] [3]

4. BUMMMFITCHH - Wikipedia

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   Many of the steps in the pre-landing checklist are double-checks to eliminate the possibility of unexpected failure of the aircraft. Other steps convert the aircraft from a configuration that is optimised for economical flight to one that is safe for landing.

5. CIGAR (aviation) - Wikipedia

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   CIGAR or CIGARS is a mnemonic that refers to a pre-takeoff checklist performed by general aviation pilots. The mnemonic stands for: [1] Controls; Instruments; Gas; Airplane secure; Run-up. Alternately: [2] Controls; Instruments; Gas; Attitude; Run-up; Yet another version was used by the U.S. Air Force: [3] CIGarettes For The Poor Russian ...

6. Checklist - Wikipedia

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   In general, a checklist is a quality management tool, an aid to completing a complex task correctly and completely. It is an aid to recall, provides a reminder of the correct sequence, and uses the operator's knowledge and skill efficiently to ensure that no critical steps are omitted, even when the operator is under stress or has degraded attention due to fatigue or other distractions, It ...

7. Quick Reference Handbook - Wikipedia

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   The aircraft manufacturer-designated checklists are always included in a QRH, and often the airline company or operator will include its own procedures. Therefore, there is no single universal QRH and they may differ widely in contents, but in practice, individual versions of it are referred to as the Quick Reference Handbook. [ 3 ]

8. Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization

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   Since aviation is a continuing, progressive profession, it is both desirable and necessary that new ideas and new techniques be expeditiously evaluated and incorporated if proven to be sound. To this end, Commanding Officers of aviation units are authorized to modify procedures contained herein… for the purpose of assessing new ideas prior to ...

9. IMSAFE - Wikipedia

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   The mnemonic is: Illness - Is the pilot suffering from any illness or symptom of an illness which might affect them in flight?; Medication - Is the pilot currently taking any drugs (prescription or over-the-counter)?