How To Present Checklists
There is a large amount of research available on flight safety. One of the more prosaic is flight deck documentation. I was updating my checklists and wanted to prepare them to appear more professional. A short web search later produced "On the Typography of Flight Deck Documentation" by Asaf Degani. This is a well referenced summary of how to present checklists.
There are 19 summarized recommendations as well as several sample layouts from actual documents. For my purposes the recommendations were simple: larger, narrower, sans serif fonts, lower case, and justified on the left.
Another document by the same author was "Cockpit Checklists: Concepts, Design, and Use." This is a more general description of the human factors that go into creating the checklists. Rather than presenting the information, this document goes into what should be on them and how they should be organized.
There are 19 summarized recommendations as well as several sample layouts from actual documents. For my purposes the recommendations were simple: larger, narrower, sans serif fonts, lower case, and justified on the left.
Another document by the same author was "Cockpit Checklists: Concepts, Design, and Use." This is a more general description of the human factors that go into creating the checklists. Rather than presenting the information, this document goes into what should be on them and how they should be organized.
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