B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 222
Distraction; Time Pressure
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy
The Before Takeoff Checklist is too long and is a distraction. I highlighted this flight because of the short taxi; but it happens almost every flight. Captains always wait until the last minute to call for the checklist; and it turns me into a rote reader; I have to fit in the checklist; talk to ATC; and make sure the Captain is taxiing onto the right runway. The checklist almost always gets interrupted by ATC. I will make a mistake sometime in the future because of the recent changes to this checklist. I will either miss an item on the checklist; or I will miss an ATC instruction or I will accidentally allow a Captain to taxi where we shouldn't be. It is inevitable because the too long Before Takeoff Checklist takes my attention away from much more important tasks. Stop loading up First Officer's with useless tasks. Shorten the checklist.
B737 First Officer reports his air carrier's Before Takeoff Checklist is too long and beginning the checklist late into the taxi flow means something is bound to be missed.