Loco parentis wrote:Well, well ! Struck a bit of a nerve there ! I work from a checklist because I do not, in its entirety, trust my memory. Maybe it is something to do with the intrusion of age or, then again, something to do with my aviator/airman/pilot schooling at the hands of RAF instructors who were dogmatic in their insistence on using checklists. In that respect at least I count myself fortunate.
If you don't trust your memory, how can you trust that you have done each item on your list and not missed one , or just performed the motion?
As others have said, you do what you're happy with. Having such worries about being on the same airfield as someone who doesn't seems totally over the top. Just think of how bad some of the road users are with paying attention, and you're driving along the road within feet of them with 120mph closing speeds.
Then again, I fly a relatively simple aircraft, I have the vast majority of my hours on it, it is only me who flies it, I know my checks and pretty much exactly how things should sound and feel as I go through them.