Checklists have been a part of pilots working lives ever since the crash of an early B-17 in 1935. Now other professionals, especially in the health care field, are adopting checklists as a means to combat forgetfulness. The Pilot Checklists Cessna 152 app is the first in a series of apps providing pilot checklists for todays popular airplanes. Each Pilot Checklists app will provide exactly the same functionality as every other Pilot Checklists app, the only difference being the checklists that come installed with the app. The Pilot Checklists Cessna 152 app gives you complete freedom to add checklists for whatever airplanes you wish. The Pilot Checklists apps are not just for pilots. They serve the needs of anyone who needs the functionality of a pilot checklist, regardless of the field in which one works. How the Pilot Checklists Apps Work The Pilot Checklists app is very simple. It uses off-the-shelf widgets from the iPhone SDK (3.0). It is designed for the one purpose for which it is named. When you launch the app for the first time, the app opens on the table of categories. A category is simply a handy device for containing the checklists that pertain to a given airplane. If you want to create a new category to add to the list, touch the Add Button in the upper right corner of the screen. A view will slide up, giving you the opportunity to type in the name of a new category. If you wish, you may give the category entry a color in order to group it with related categories in the table of categories. If you change your mind about creating a category, touch the Cancel Button. When you finish typing the new categorys name and choosing a color, touch the Save Button, and the view will slide back down, revealing the new category at the bottom of the table of categories. If you wish to delete a category, swipe it or touch the Edit Button and then the editing control at the left side of each entry. Then touch the Delete Button. This will delete the category and all of the checklists associated with the category. To rearrange the categories, touch the Edit Button and then drag the entries into the desired order using the touch locations at the right side of each entry. When you are done, touch the Done Button. If you delete the category originally installed with your Pilot Checklists app and wish to restore it, shake the device while viewing the table of categories, and the originally installed category will magically reappear. If you wish to view the checklists associated with a particular category, touch the categorys entry, and the table of checklists will slide into view. The table of checklists operates exactly the same as the table of categories. To return to the table of categories, touch the Categories Button in the upper left corner of the screen. If you wish to view the items on a particular checklist, touch the checklists entry, and the table of items will slide into view. The table of items differs from the categories table and the checklists table in three respects. First, touching an entry will cause a checkmark to appear on the right side of the entry. Touching the entry again will cause the checkmark to disappear. To remove all the checkmarks on all the checked entries, touch the Reset Button on the toolbar. Second, the item entries contain two lines. The first identifies the item of interestthe avionics master switch, the control wheel lock, the flaps, and so onand the second line identifies the condition that needs to be checked: avionics master switchOFF. Third, the view for adding an item to a checklist provides text fields for both the item of interest and the condition to be checked. Good Day! . . . . . . and thank you for your interest in my app. Stephen S. Ashley www.n612sp.com/CFI
