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Originally posted by ronin
then you'd be even more concerned should you get a chance to peek into an airliner cockpit. checklists are de rigeur and a very necessary element in flight safety. airliner checklists can span pages. they're not intended as reminders to the forgetful, but as measures to ensure that as little as possible is left to chance during the most critical elements of any flight
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What really freaked me out was when I learned how they memorize "flows", i.e., convoluted paths across the panel from point-to-point rather than memorizing a specific sequence of instruments.
Made it too much like a video game.