NICHOLAS CHRISTIE provides his opinion on the risks of always relying on written checklists. (Article originally published at www.aopa.com.au) When I started flying, my instructor handed me a green covered, floppy-bound handbook with a photocopied list of aircraft speeds, a map of the airport, the phonetic alphabet – and a list of ‘checklists’ to learn. I took the book home and – as any enthusiastic teenage flying student would do – kept the book beside my bed, committing all