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SEA Development's "Checklist Manager" Reviewed

Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 6:45
Senior staff reviewer Brian Fletcher looks at a utility that every serious simmer has used in one form or another. The checklist. Except this time it's in electronic form. Here's Checklist Manager by SEA Development.

"The aircraft checklist acts as a silent co-pilot that ensures your aircraft is airworthy and walks you through each step of flight from pre-start to shutdown," notes Brian, "What is the Checklist Manager? In short, it is one of the most simple and straight to the point onscreen checklists available for FS9."

"Technically speaking, the SEA Checklist Manager will work with any aircraft in your inventory from the Wright Flyer to the Airbus A380. In order to load the Checklist Manager you will need choose one of the “SEA Checklist Manager” flights from the “select a flight” menu in FS9. Once the flight loads you can then choose any aircraft of your choice and the Checklist Manager will remain active."

"Each of the flights will begin with a cold cockpit where you will follow a series of pre-start inspections to ensure the aircraft is ready for startup. The checklist will begin by requesting an external inspection, a fuel calculation, and suggest that you get a weather briefing from ATIS. The next few steps ask you to verify that your charts are ready for use, the parking brake is set with the throttle controls at idle, and to switch on the battery master switch. Once the pre-start inspection is complete it will be replaced by the startup procedure checklist,....and so on."

The Cap'n wraps up the review with, "Like every add-on ever made, this product comes down to a matter of taste. Some virtual pilots will like the ability to have the on-screen checklist so that they don’t have to take their eyes off the screen. Others may prefer the realism of having a paperback version instead. I have found a few benefits to having a program like this."

Your program is GREAT and I enjoy it very much .Now I have a copilot with me in the flight deck.

Excellent application. I bought it yesterday and I'm very satisfied. I did a test flight with a PSS A319 and it was excellent from start-up to landing. Maybe you should try to add more aircraft add-ons like LDS-767 and PMDG 747-400.

First, I would like to thank you for developing a product that allows sim flyers like me to go from cold startup to landing without the need for manuals at our side!!! This product has allowed me to simulate complete flights on a number of addons that I have that were "out of my reach" for cold and dark operations.

One question here - Do you think that I can use checklists from "similar" A/C if there are no actual products to support them. My current concern is the Majestic Dash 8 - 300. I also have the PSS Dash 8 but would rather use my Masestic addon. Since I am not familiar with the portion of your product that does the "automatic" phases of my flight, I am hoping that the program will work for these similar addons until actual ones are available. My Dreamfleet Baron is another.

Thanks and congratulation as your program is more useful as FDC Flight Companion (I previously used it for 9 months)

ieri sera ho fatto il mio primo voletto su IVAO con CLM e FSPassengers in accoppiata...SPE..TTA..CO..LA..RE!!!! Utile la funzionalità checklist automatica e manuale!

Ciao Michele, ho appena installato e provato il tuo CheckList Manager. Penso sia il migliore che tu abbia creato!! Infatti rispetto a Flight Sound Controller che arricchisce un pò l'audio e a The Challenge che rende la simulazione di volo più un gioco (però hai ragione, ogni tanto si deve rompere la monotonia!!!), questo è veramente UTILE, perchè rende molto più realistica la preparazione e lo sviluppo del volo in maniera attiva (già il fatto che non inizi con il motore in moto è stupendo) consentendo anche di alleggerire il carico di lavoro nei momenti "critici".

Grazie ancora

Domenico XXXX, MEDXXX

First Officer, Mediterranea Va

Many thanks to you! Its very very good! I had not heard of it before but its a great way to get used to a checklist....

Hello!

Thank you for making checklist for fsx! I was able to get airbus into air without printing pages! I really would like to see checklists for CaptainSim C-130 and CaptainSim 757. Those are my favorite aircrafts.