Start working in the cockpit like a professional! Remember those old, faded printed checklists that hide somewhere in the side pocket of your aircraft? It's time to make things smarter!

Pilot's Checklist lets you work with checklists on all iOS devices. 
  • Choose your own checklist and customise it.
  • Go through all items and mark them as completed or flag them as issue.
  • Reach the appropriate list for each stage of your flight with just one click.
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  • At the top you see which aircraft (callsign and type) the current checklist was made for, including a version date.
  • Checklists are divided into five categories:
    • Pre-flight
    • Start-up
    • Take-off
    • Landing
    • EMERGENCY
  • ​Just click on the symbol and the list, corresponding to your current flight situation opens.
  • Checklists are separated into  groups with a thematic header e.g. "Preliminary Checks", or "Engine start".
    • The colour of the group header can be changed.
    • The red number next to the header tells you how many checks are still uncompleted.
    • You can reset the check-items of this group.
  • Checks that you need to come back to, or where something unusual has happened can be flagged in yellow with just one more touch.
  • The number of flagged and uncompleted checks is indicated at the top of the group with an exclamation mark in yellow.


  • Common checks like "Master Switch", "ACL" , ... have their own symbols to allow the pilot to recognise quicker and easily what the next check involves.
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  • Pilots often memorise acronyms like "FREDA", "DABLE" or "FFUMPS" in order to remember all items of a check that is performed by heart. Often these checks are performed in time-critical situations like take-off or on final.

  • The checklist allows you to display the first letters of checks and choose a special colour so that you can quickly see
    • which check is due
    • what items that check involves
    • afterwards confirm in your list that you've completed all items

Customising and creating your own Checklists

  • New checklists can simply be loaded from your phone's file system into the app.
  • Checklists are simple .xml files that you can edit with any text editor.
  • The basic structure is the following:
    • <aircraft> - section: contains information about the aircraft type, the callsign of a specific aircraft if the checklist is customised and the version/date when the checklist was updated.
    • five <checkdata> - sections: they represent the 5 categories (pre-flight, start-up, take-off, landing and emergency)
      • inside there can be as many <checkblock> - sections as needed. They are displayed a group headings with a title and can be coloured in one of the colours: internalcolor, externalcolor, enginecolor, vitalcolor, emergencycolor, settingscolor, gray, white or clear.
        • inside can be as many <check> - sections as needed. They contain all the information about one line of the checklist. 
          • <col> sets the colour. Options are: black (default), undercarriagecolor, mastercolor, fuelpumpcolor, landinglightcolor, aclcolor, pitotcolor, flapscolor, propcolor, mixturecolor, ensurecolor and radiocolor
          • <icon> defines a capital letter for an acronym or can display one of the following image icons: geardown, gearup, mastersym, fuelpumpsym, landinglightsym, aclsym, pitotsym, throttlesym, propsym, mixturesym, ignitionsym, magnetosym, radiosym, bestrate, bestangle
          • <item> describes the object the check involves.
          • <action> describes what needs to be checked or done.


An example of a basic .xml file is displayed below. At the bottom of the page there are also some sample checklists which you can use as a starting point for your own list.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<checkdocument>   
   <aircraft>
        <aircraftmodel>AIRCRAFT TYPE</aircraftmodel>
        <aircraftcallsign>D-XXXX</aircraftcallsign>
        <checklistversion>01-XXXX</checklistversion>
    </aircraft>
    
    <checkdata>
        <checkblock colour="internalcolor" title="PRE FLIGHT PREPARATION">
            <check>
                <col>mastercolor</col>
                <icon>mastersym</icon>
                <item>Master Switch</item>
                <action>BATT ON</action>
            </check>
            <check>
            </check>
        </checkblock>
        <checkblock colour="internalcolor" title="PRE FLIGHT PREPARATION">
             .....      
        </checkblock>
    </checkdata>
    
    <checkdata>
​         ......
    </checkdata>
    
    <checkdata>
         ......
    </checkdata>
    
    <checkdata>
         ......
    </checkdata>
    
    <checkdata>
         ......
    </checkdata>
    
</checkdocument>

CHECKLISTS for download

Disclaimer: No guarantee is given for the completeness and safety of the available checklists. The responsibility for the safe conduct of flight remains with the pilot.
Piper PA-28 R-200 Arrow
checklist-pa28.xml
File Size: 58 kb
File Type: xml
Download File
Demo checklist that showcases all colours and symbols of the app.
checklist-demo.xml
File Size: 6 kb
File Type: xml
Download File

Privacy policy

The app Pilot's Checklist does not collect or ask for any personal data. All aircraft-related data is only stored locally on your device.