Thanks,
Again this shows the importance of networking, because I certainly couldn't have done this on my own.
If you look at both of the checklists, you see steps that are "boxed", those are memory items. You have to know those, in your head, without hesitation.....period. You might not know your birthday, or your wifes first name, that doesn't matter. Those memory items do. Not 75%, or even 99%........the pilot must be 100% correct or it's 100% wrong.
When I was learning how to fly the Cessna 152, I would walk around the pool at Village Lakes at 6:00 AM with a mug of coffee in one hand and the checklist in the other. Sometimes I would sit in a chair facing a wall, eyes losed, inside of an airplne in my head, going though the PTS or a stage check, again, by the pool.
9 months later with a 727 checklist, and a mug of coffee, walking around the pool at the Mainstay Inn at Miami just before daybreak, I was doing the same thing.
The instructors at Comair(yeah, DCA) made me do it the Comair way, and it's been working ever since.
I'm not saying that there isn't more than one way to skin a cat, but I am saying that if you want to skin a cat using Comairs procedures, you'll probably end up skinning that cat, or cruising long at FL350 over Texas at Mach .86.
And a really cool thing, last week, I swear, I heard my instructor for PVT, INST, COMM, over Toledo, OH.....I'm sure he was Comair 244.