Northrop/McDonnel Douglas YF-23A "Black Widow" II - CHECKLIST
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BEFORE ENGINE START
[ ] Landing Gear -- CHECK is DOWN
[ ] BATT switch -- ON
[ ] Left and
right GEN switches -- OFF
[ ] Flight Controls -- CHECKED
[ ] Engines Panel
-- CHECKED
[ ] Fuel quantity -- CHECKED
[ ] Antiice -- OFF
[ ] Aircraft
lights -- OFF
[ ] Parking brakes -- SET
[ ] Trim -- AS REQUIRED
[ ]
Altimeters -- SET
[ ] Standby instruments -- SET
[ ] Take off parameters
(V1, VR, V2) -- CALCULATED and SPEEDS SET
[ ] Primary avionics switch --
ON
[ ] Avionics -- SET FOR TAKE OFF
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ENGINES START
[ ] Parking brakes -- SET
[ ] Throttles -- MINIMUM
[ ] Fuel Flow --
ON
[ ] Left starter switch -- ON
[ ] Left fuel flow -- CHECKED
[ ] Left
N1 increment as left N2 grows -- CHECKED
[ ] Left ITT -- CHECKED
[ ] Left
oil pressure -- CHECKED
[ ] Left engine instruments -- CHECK is NORMAL
[ ]
Right starter switch -- ON
[ ] Right fuel flow -- CHECKED
[ ] Right N1
increment as right N2 grows -- CHECKED
[ ] Right ITT -- CHECKED
[ ] Right
oil pressure -- CHECKED
[ ] Right engine instruments -- CHECK is NORMAL
[
] Left and right GEN switches -- ON
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BEFORE TAXIING
[ ] Antiice -- ON
[ ] Flaps -- AS REQUIRED
[ ] Flight controls --
CHECKED
[ ] Aircraft lights -- AS REQUIRED
[ ] Brakes -- RELEASED
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TAXIING AND BEFORE TAKE OFF
[ ] Brakes -- CHECKED
[ ] Flight instruments -- CHECKED
[ ] Engines
instruments -- CHECKED
[ ] Take off parameters (V1, VR, V2) -- CHECKED
[ ]
Navigation instruments -- CHECKED
[ ] Transponder -- SET
[ ] Flaps -- AS
REQUIRED
[ ] Trim -- SET FOR TAKE OFF
[ ] Antiice -- AS REQUIRED
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RUNWAY ALIGNMENT
[ ] Aircraft lights -- ON
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TAKE OFF
[ ] Throttles -- T/O
[ ] Brakes -- RELEASED
[ ] VR -- ROTATE
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AFTER TAKE OFF
[ ] Landing Gear -- UP AFTER POSITIVE CLIMB RATE
[ ] Flaps -- UP AT
V2+100
[ ] Antiyaw device -- ACTIVE AS REQUIRED
[ ] Spoiler --
RETRACTED
[ ] Antiice -- AS REQUIRED
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CLIMB
[ ] Altimeters -- RESET AT 29,92 ACROSS 18.000 FT LEVEL
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DESCENT
[ ] Antiice -- AS REQUIRED
[ ] Altimeters -- RESET AT LOCAL VALUE ACROSS
18.000 FT LEVEL
[ ] Fuel quantity -- CHECKED
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APPROACH
[ ] Landing parameters (VREF, VAPP) -- CALCULATED and SPEEDS SET
[ ]
Avionics and radio devices -- SET
[ ] Flaps - ONE OR TWO NOTCHES AS
REQUIRED
[ ] Spoiler -- ARMED
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BEFORE LANDING
[ ] Landing gear -- DOWN (check the HUD G indicator is appeared)
[ ] Flaps
-- ALL DOWN (check the panel flaps indicator is not blinking)
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LANDING
[ ] Brakes -- AS REQUIRED
[ ] Spoiler -- VERIFY EXTENSION
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AFTER LANDING/LEAVING THE RUNWAY
[ ] Transponder -- OFF
[ ] Antiice -- AS REQUIRED
[ ] Lights -- AS
REQUIRED
[ ] Spoiler -- RETRACTED
[ ] Flaps -- UP
[ ] Throttles --
CUT
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STOP
[ ] Parking brakes -- SET
[ ] Antiice -- OFF
[ ] Throttles --
MINIMUM
[ ] Fuel flow -- CUT
[ ] Lights -- OFF
[ ] Left and right GEN
switches -- OFF
[ ] BATT switch -- OFF