Before Engine Start Checklist Discussion
Typically, prior to this checklist would include checklists for filing a flight plan with the airport operations office, walk-around and aircraft inspection, uncovering and stowing of the covers, fueling the aircraft, calculating both the aircraft mass with fuel and the cargo mass and the center of gravity and center of moments of the aircraft, and check operation of and set of movable surfaces ( rudder, flaps, ailerons ) of the aircraft . These are perhaps among other checklists also.
The following is a sampling of some of the tasks to perform during the startup of the engine. This is a bullet point list. Later I intend to change these to check-boxes.
- Prepare knee-board and wax pencil to copy instructions from ground and flight controllers
- Throttle to 12%
- Battery Master On
- Flaps Up
- Fuel Pump On
- Mixture to 100%
- Final Visual Check that no person is standing near the aircraft
- Yell "Clear Prop"
- Ignition to Start - Wait for Engine to Fire
- Release the Engine Stater - Magnetos to Both
- Check Oil Pressure
- Alternator On
- Avionics Master On
- Navigation Lights On
- Strobe Lights On
- Set radio for ground control operations frequency
- Call ground controller for clearance to taxi to the active runway
- Receive instructions and copy them down for instructions for taxiways to follow to the active runway
- Read-back the taxi instructions to the ground controller
- Receive confirmation that read-back was correct from ground controller
Following this checklist there may be checklists for engine run-up and engine check, and taxi-ing aircraft checklist.