As one who has been trying to figure out this concept called flying for longer than I can remember, I've always been a little mystified as to why the same accidents seem to keep happening for the same reasons. Certainly, I'd never be the perpetrator of such dumb behavior...or would I? I rarely fly anything heavier than 11,000 pounds, but that doesn't excuse me from avoiding checklists. The very nature of checklists is such that larger, more sophisticated airplanes demand progressively more exotic systems. That, in turn, leads to longer and more complex checklists to manage the airplane.
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