Hi there, I cannot help you on your specific check list but I totally agree on you about the sense of it. As an Aircraft maintenance engineer we also have to deal with those checks, specially when performing all kinds of engine ground run checks. From 1997 I fly my homebuilt KJ-66 turbines and also from that time I'm using my custom check-lists. On normal home-field operation there is not really the need for this but when you're on display with lots of people watching you tend to forget some steps, while getting rushed into the air. I fly a lot of F4c competitions and believe me, when the tension builds up the checks are of most importance! As a homebuilder, doing this for many years I think that I know what I'm doing, but a lot of people just buy their stuff not knowing the dangers involved. On the other hand when making those check lists obligatory you still must have the discipline to follow these checks where I have my doubts. Maybe the full sense of this story is that you just have to know what you are doing and practiced this some 100 times before going into public but where does this end for the hobby? This could open another discussion but if we do not, the hobby (with it's accidents) could end it for us! This all may sound very dramatic but I think that up to now we are left very free to do what we want while the technologies and dangers involved are up to higher standards than let's say some full-size ultra-light aircraft.

Gerald Rutten