Who could be interested in CheckList Manager? Do you feel mortified by the many procedures required to manage complex add-on aircrafts? Are you a pilot that flies on-line but you get confused when ATC is calling you just as you are reading your paper checklist, observing the approach chart and piloting a bird of 50 tons that, in real live, requires a minimum of two qualified pilots to operate? Your wife/husband or your girl/boy-friend do not intend to help you doing the first officer duties of reading aircraft’s checklists for you? Are you fed up to start-up default Flight Simulator’s aircrafts with Ctrl+E keys combination and you would to have a professional approach even with this kind of aircrafts using relative checklists?
All this questions have just one answer: CheckList Manager!
How does CheckList Manager work? From the Cold & Dark situation at the departure airport until shutdown of engines at the arrival airport, row after row, CLM will show the specific checklist at the right time. The power of CLM is the simplicity, in fact, no invasive gauge (frame rates will not decrease and your field of view will not be obscured or reset) but a transparent window that you can move (drag & drop) and scale as you wish.
The most important issue is that you do not have to move your eyes out of the cockpit to read a checklist , thus keeping your concentration on piloting your aircraft. To scroll checklists you just press a key combination on your keyboard or on an assigned button of your yoke or joystick (in the included instructions you’ll find this explained).
CLM automates some checklists and presents this to you in a manner that will not disturb your concentration while performing complicated flight operations (like takeoff, landing roll, etcetera).
Any checklist is made for any specific aircraft. Any checklist that you find in CheckList Manager is suitable for any add-on. It is the result of a fusion of specific checklist and relative Manual/Tutorial. You will just have to know the names of the instruments and their location, in the aircraft you wish to fly, then start your flight and Checklist Manager will lead you in any phase of your flight. Where possible, for complex aircrafts, an extra help was implemented, in fact, at the end of some calls you’ll find, between round parenthesis, a letter that indicates the panel you have to open to execute the command: (M)=Main panel, (O)=Overhead panel, (T)=Throttle, (-||-) = , etcetera, and suggestions about same not well highlighted command from aircraft’s developers
Aircraft Supported:
Default Cessna C172
Default Cessna C208B
Default Cessna C182S
Default BB58
Default King Air 350
Default Money Bravo
Default Boeing 737
Default Boeing 767
Default Boeing 747
DreamFleet 727-XXX
Eaglesoft Cessna Citation X
Captain Sim Legendary C-130
FeelThere ERJ145LR
Flight1 ATR72-500
Lago Mad Dog MD80
Level-D 767-300ER*
MDMax Super 80 PSS A321 *
MADDOG 2006*
737-XXX PIC Feelthere/Wilco **
PMDG B1900D PSS A330 *
PMDG 737-XXX NG *
PMDG 747-400 *
PSS A320 *
PSS A340 *
PSS A319 *
PSS Dash 8-Q300
Wilco Airbus V1*
Wilco Airbus V2*
Wilco Airbus 380 V2*
* for this aircraft an entry level FMC/CDU programmation procedure developed
** for 737-XXX PIC the right IRS alignment procedure developed too
Why only text messages and no vocal messages?There are several reasons but the most important are: in CLM there are more then 1700 different calls… recording all calls would mean many many more hours of work and it would make the product far to expensive while we would like to maintain is affordable to everyone. Another reason is that this software is made thinking of simmers that fly on-line where screen messages keep constantly appearing; this messages would keep erasing CheckList Manager’s messages. Therefore we made a reiteration of messages (messages reappear if deleted from Fs multiplayer message like ‘XXXX Join the session’) and this makes it impossible to use voice for messages. However CLM is not completely silent: many sounds were added to improve realism like cabin crew messages (where missing), ATC voice and environment sounds.
Manual is delivered in English and Italian versions.
Open project Tell us here what aircraft you would like to see implemented in CheckList Manager (in the ‘subject’ field of your e-mail write ‘vote CLM’) . Customers of CheckList Manager will receive added aircrafts free of charge.
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Okay I need to retract that last review, it was a little hasty and unfair. So here goes. I've had help from Michele Giandomenico to get it running, and tried it with the ATR 72 from Flight 1. It would seem a corrupt file download caused the initial problems I experienced and with Micheles kind help I re-downloaded and installed and presto, it works.
One thing is though the buttons seem to be reversed, so Button 1 skips and button 2 activates the next item. Anyway it's very comprehensive. Even items that are totally unimportant to FS are included, and for the first time ever I even managed to use Hotel mode (Engine2 as APU) successfully.
I've therefore now to keep my promise to Michele and publicly apologise for the review of earlier and revise it to show the true value of this add-on.
I'm basing my rating on both it's value and support hence moved it up to 5/5.
Many thanks Michele, this will do the FS community a favour, especially those who are not quite fully Au Fait with the complex aircraft yet.
– John Bower, 10/06/2005
Frankly I can't get this to work, the one time it did anything at all it stepped from checklist to checklist without any items coming up. Most times all I got was FS turning black with the hourglass followed by the FS.exe needs to close message.
Very good application. It allows any pilot to fly a complex aircraft from cold & dark cockpit to landing without the need to going back to the manuals. We have encouraged the authors to add more and more complex aircraft.