Pilot's Pocket Handbook: Flight Calculations, Weather Decoder, Aviation Acronyms, Charts and Checklists, Pilot Memory Aids

when aviation first began with the Wright brothers checklists did not exist but as more complex airplanes were created the probability of making a mistake and having a fatal error increased drastically one of the first airplanes to ever have a checklist was the Boeing b-17 on the first b-17 flight the airplane crashed after takeoff because the pilot forgot to remove the elevator lock not allowing him to pitch the nose up after this tragedy checklists were born to help prevent accidents like this one from occurring even after thousands of hours of flying pilots still use checklist to ensure that critical tasks will not be forgotten checklist usage is a critical aspect of flying so it is important to work on this skill from day one pilots who tend to overlook checklist usage are prone to become more complacent and make more mistakes which could create an unsafe situation for the first hal