# Cessna 206H Stationair — 2000_Cessna_206H_Checklist_v1

> **NOT FOR FLIGHT** — source fidelity: unreviewed | operational review: none | completeness: full

> **content_gap**: Section "ENGINE FAILURE – IMMEDIATELY AFTER TAKEOFF" item count differs between passes (10 vs 11); verify nothing was dropped.
> **content_gap**: Section "FORCED LANDING W/O ENGINE POWER" item count differs between passes (14 vs 13); verify nothing was dropped.

## BEFORE ENGINE START

- [ ] Pilot's Operating Handbook
- [ ] Airplane Weight and Balance — **CHECKED**
- [ ] Brakes — **TEST AND SET**
- [ ] Control Wheel Lock
- [ ] Hobbs Meter
- [ ] Ignition & Avionics Master — **OFF**
- [ ] Master Switch — **ON**
- [ ] Fuel Quantity Indicator — **CHK QTY & ENSURE LOW FUEL ANNUNCIATORS OFF**
- [ ] Avionics Master Switch — **ON**
- [ ] Avionics Cooling Fan — **CHECK AUDIBLY**
- [ ] Avionics Master Switch — **OFF**
- [ ] Flaps
- [ ] Static Pressure Alternate Source — **OFF**
- [ ] Annunciator Panel — **TEST/ALL LIGHTS ON**
- [ ] Fuel Selector Valve — **BOTH**
- [ ] Pitot Heat — **ON FOR 30 SECONDS**
- [ ] Pitot Heat — **TEST FOR HEAT & POWER OFF**
- [ ] Master Switch — **OFF**
- [ ] Trim Controls
- [ ] Cockpit Inspect Done
- [ ] Passenger briefing
- [ ] Cabin doors — **CLOSED AND LOCKED**
- [ ] Seats/seat belts — **ADJUSTED AND LOCKED**
- [ ] Circuit breakers
- [ ] Avionics circuit breakers
- [ ] Electrical equipment — **OFF**
- [ ] Avionics master switch — **OFF**
- [ ] Cowl flaps
- [ ] Fuel selector valve — **BOTH**

## ENGINE START

- [ ] Throttle — **OPEN ¼ INCH**
- [ ] Prop
- [ ] Master switch — **ON**
- [ ] Beacon
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Prop area
- [ ] Auxiliary fuel pump switch — **ON**
- [ ] Mixture — **ADVANCE UNTIL THERE IS A RISE IN FUEL FLOW AND MAINTAIN IN THIS POSITION APPROXIMATELY FIVE SECONDS WITH AUX FUEL PUMP ON**
- [ ] Auxiliary fuel pump switch — **OFF**
- [ ] Ignition switch
- [ ] Mixture — **SMOOTHLY TO RICH**
> **NOTE:** IF ENGINE FLOODS, VERIFY AUXILIARY FUEL PUMP OFF, OPEN THROTTLE ½ TO FULL, AND CRANK ENGINE. WHEN ENGINE FIRES, ADVANCE MIXTURE TO FULL RICH & RETARD THROTTLE
- [ ] Oil Pressure
- [ ] Mixture — **LEANED at 1200 RPM**
- [ ] Flaps — **RETRACT TO NORMAL**
- [ ] Avionics Master / Radios — **ON**
- [ ] EDM 800 — **ENTER/VERIFY FUEL VOLUME**
- [ ] KLN94 & MX20 Databases — **CURRENT**
- [ ] KLN94 — **FLIGHT PLAN ENTERED**
- [ ] ATIS/AWOS
- [ ] Clearance if applicable
- [ ] Navigation lights — **AS REQUIRED**
- [ ] Taxi light — **AS REQUIRED**
- [ ] Brakes

## BEFORE TAKEOFF

- [ ] Brakes
- [ ] Seat backs
- [ ] Passenger Seats — **AS FAR FWD AS POSSIBLE**
- [ ] Seats/seat belts — **CHECK SECURED**
- [ ] Cabin doors — **CLOSED AND LOCKED**
- [ ] Flight controls — **FREE AND CORRECT**
- [ ] Flight instruments — **CHECK AND SET**
    - [ ] Directional Gyro
    - [ ] Altimeter
    - [ ] Transponder
    - [ ] GPS & Autopilot
    - [ ] Attitude Indicator
**Autopilot Preflight**
    - [ ] Power
    **Manual Electric Trim Test**
        - [ ] Both Halves Down — **VERIFY**
        - [ ] Both Halves Up — **VERIFY**
        - [ ] MET Up, Hold DISC — **VERIFY**
            - [ ] Wheel/Ind Not Moving — **VERIFY**
        - [ ] Release AP/DISC — **VERIFY**
            - [ ] Wheel/Ind Moving — **VERIFY**
    - [ ] Baro Setting — **VERIFY**
    - [ ] Autopilot — **PRESS AP BUTTON**
        - [ ] Flight Controls — **VERIFY OVRPWER**
        - [ ] A/P Disc — **PRESS & VERIFY**
        - [ ] Trim
- [ ] Fuel quantity
- [ ] Auxiliary fuel pump — **OFF**
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Cowl flaps
- [ ] Fuel selector valve — **RECHECK BOTH**
- [ ] Throttle — **1800 RPM**
    - [ ] Magnetos
    - [ ] Prop — **CYCLE THEN RETURN TO HIGH**
    - [ ] Vacuum gauge
    - [ ] Oil pressure
    - [ ] Oil temperature
    - [ ] Ammeter
    - [ ] Annunciator panel — **TEST AND CHECK**
- [ ] Throttle — **IDLE/1000 RPM OR LESS**
- [ ] Friction lock
- [ ] Wing flaps — **0 to 20°**
- [ ] Cowl Flaps
- [ ] Electric trim
- [ ] Elevator/rudder trip
- [ ] Radios/avionics
- [ ] NAV/GPS switch
- [ ] Autopilot
- [ ] Strobe lights — **AS DESIRED**
- [ ] Taxi/Landing lights — **AS DESIRED**
- [ ] Transponder
- [ ] Brakes

## NORMAL TAKEOFF

- [ ] Before Taking Runway — **XPONDER SET TO ALTITUDE**
- [ ] Tower & Departure Freqs — **SET**
- [ ] Wing flaps — **0 to 20°**
- [ ] Take Runway
- [ ] Power — **FULL POWER/2700 RPM**
- [ ] Mixture — **MAX OR LEANED TO MAX POWER ABOVE 3000 FEET**
- [ ] Elevator control — **ROTATE 56 KIAS**
- [ ] Climb speed
- [ ] Wing flaps — **RETRACT WHEN CLEAR OF OBSTACLES**

## SHORT FIELD TAKEOFF

- [ ] Wing flaps
- [ ] Brakes
- [ ] Power — **FULL POWER/2700 RPM**
- [ ] Mixture — **MAX OR LEANED TO MAX POWER**
- [ ] Brakes
- [ ] Elevator control — **MAINTAIN SLIGHT TAIL LOW ATTITUDE**
- [ ] Climb Speed
- [ ] Wing flaps — **RETRACT SLOWLY AFTER REACHING 80 KIAS**

## ENROUTE CLIMB

- [ ] Airspeed
- [ ] Power — **25 INCH OR FULL(LESS)/2500 RPM**
- [ ] Mixture — **LEAN TO 20 GPH**
- [ ] Fuel Selector Valve
- [ ] Wing flaps — **VERIFY RETRACTED**
- [ ] Cowl flaps

## MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE CLIMB

- [ ] Airspeed
- [ ] Power — **FULL THROTTLE/2700 RPM**
- [ ] Mixture — **LEAN FOR MAX POWER SEE MINIMUM FUEL FLOW PLACARD**
- [ ] Fuel selector valve
- [ ] Cowl flaps

## CRUISE

- [ ] Landing light — **VERIFY OFF**
**Power – 75% MAX**
    - [ ] Throttle — **15 to 25 INCHES**
    - [ ] Prop — **2100 to 2500 RPM**
- [ ] Mixture — **LEAN FOR CRUISE**
- [ ] Cowl flaps

## DESCENT

- [ ] Power — **AS DESIRED**
- [ ] Mixture — **ENRICHEN AS REQUIRED**
- [ ] Cowl flaps
- [ ] Altimeter
- [ ] Fuel selector valve
- [ ] Flaps — **AS DESIRED**
    - [ ] 0° to 10° below 140 KIAS
    - [ ] 10° to 40° below 100 KIAS

## INSTRUMENT APPROACH

- [ ] Approach brief
- [ ] KLN94 CDI switch
- [ ] Frequency/Approach
- [ ] IDENT
- [ ] Marker beacon
- [ ] HSI to Compass
**AT FAF**
- [ ] Time
- [ ] Turn
- [ ] Twist
- [ ] Throttle
- [ ] Talk
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Prop
- [ ] Landing light
- [ ] Flaps — **AS DESIRED**
    - [ ] 0° to 10° below 140 KIAS
    - [ ] 10° to 40° below 100 KIAS

## BEFORE LANDING

- [ ] Passenger Seats As Fwd As Practical — **VERIFY**
- [ ] Seat backs
- [ ] Seatbelts
- [ ] Fuel Selector Valve
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Prop
- [ ] Landing light
- [ ] Autopilot

## NORMAL LANDING

- [ ] Airspeed (flaps up)
- [ ] Flaps — **AS DESIRED**
    - [ ] 0° to 10° below 140 KIAS
    - [ ] 10° to 40° below 100 KIAS
- [ ] Airspeed (flaps full)
- [ ] Braking

## SHORT FIELD LANDING

- [ ] Airspeed (flaps up)
- [ ] Flaps — **FULL (40°) BELOW 100 KIAS**
- [ ] Airspeed
- [ ] Power — **REDUCE TO IDLE AS OBSTACLES ARE CLEARED**
- [ ] Braking
- [ ] Flaps

## BALKED LANDING

- [ ] Power — **FULL POWER/2700 RPM**
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Wing flaps
- [ ] Climb speed
- [ ] Wing flaps
- [ ] Cowl flaps

## AFTER LANDING

- [ ] Wing flaps
- [ ] Cowl flaps
- [ ] Landing light
- [ ] Taxi light — **AS REQUIRED**
- [ ] Strobes
- [ ] Transponder

## SHUT DOWN

- [ ] Throttle
- [ ] Electrical equipment
- [ ] Avionics master
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Ignition switch
- [ ] Master
- [ ] Hobbs time
- [ ] Control lock
- [ ] Cowl flaps
- [ ] Fuel Selector Valve
- [ ] Nosewheel Chock
- [ ] Fuel Top Off
- [ ] Cowl Inlet Cover In Place

## ENGINE FAILURE – TAKEOFF ROLL (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Throttle
- [ ] Brakes
- [ ] Wing flaps
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Ignition switch
- [ ] Master switch

## ENGINE FAILURE – IMMEDIATELY AFTER TAKEOFF (EMERGENCY)

**Airspeed**
    - [ ] Flaps up
    - [ ] Flaps down
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Fuel selector valve
- [ ] Ignition switch
- [ ] Wing flaps — **AS REQUIRED (40° RECOMMENDED)**
- [ ] Master switch
- [ ] Cabin door
- [ ] Land

## ENGINE FAILURE DURING FLIGHT/RESTART (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Airspeed
- [ ] Fuel selector valve
- [ ] Auxiliary fuel pump
- [ ] Engine power
> **NOTE:** IF RESTART DOES NOT OCCUR
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Ignition switch — **CHECK BOTH (START IF PROPELLER IS STOPPED)**
- [ ] Auxiliary fuel pump — **OFF (IF FUEL FLOW DROPS TO ZERO RETURN TO ON)**

## FORCED LANDING W/O ENGINE POWER (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Passenger seats
- [ ] Seatbacks
- [ ] Seats/Seat Belts
**Airspeed**
    - [ ] Flaps up
    - [ ] Flaps down
- [ ] Transmit 121.5
- [ ] Squawk
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Fuel selector valve
- [ ] Wing flaps — **AS REQUIRED (40° RECOMMENDED)**
- [ ] Master switch
- [ ] ELT
- [ ] Door

## PRECAUTIONARY LANDING W/ENGINE POWER (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Passenger seats
- [ ] Seatbacks
- [ ] Seats/Seat Belts
- [ ] Transmit 121.5
- [ ] Squawk
- [ ] Airspeed
- [ ] Wing flaps
- [ ] Avionics Master
- [ ] Electrical switches
- [ ] Wing flaps
- [ ] Airspeed
- [ ] Master switch
- [ ] ELT
- [ ] Doors
- [ ] Ignition switch
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Fuel selector valve

## DITCHING (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Transmit 121.5
- [ ] Squawk
- [ ] Heavy objects
- [ ] Passenger seats
- [ ] Seatbacks
- [ ] Seats/Seat Belts
- [ ] Wing flaps
- [ ] POWER — **ESTABLISH 300 FT/MINUTE DESCENT AT 65 KIAS**
- [ ] If no power
    - [ ] Flaps up
    - [ ] Flaps 10°
**Approach**
    - [ ] High winds/Heavy seas — **INTO THE WIND**
    - [ ] Light winds/Heavy seas — **PARALLEL TO SWELLS**
- [ ] Cabin doors
- [ ] Plan touchdown
- [ ] Face
- [ ] ELT
- [ ] Airplane

## FIRE DURING GROUND START (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Ignition switch — **START (CONTINUE CRANKING)**
> **NOTE:** ENGINE STARTS
- [ ] Power
- [ ] Engine
> **NOTE:** ENGINE FAILS TO START
- [ ] Ignition switch — **START (CONTINUE CRANKING)**
- [ ] Throttle
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Fuel selector valve
- [ ] Auxiliary fuel pump
- [ ] Master switch
- [ ] Ignition switch
- [ ] Airplane
- [ ] Fire

## ENGINE FIRE – IN FLIGHT (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Fuel selector valve
- [ ] Auxiliary fuel pump
- [ ] Master switch
- [ ] Cabin air
- [ ] Cabin heat
- [ ] Overhead vents
- [ ] Airspeed — **105 KIAS (INCREASE WITHIN AIRSPEED LIMITATIONS UNTIL FIRE EXTINGUISHED)**
- [ ] Forced landing

## ELECTRICAL FIRE IN FLIGHT (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Master switch
- [ ] Vents/cabin air/heat
- [ ] Fire extinguisher
- [ ] Avionics master switch
- [ ] All other switches (except ignition) — **OFF**
- [ ] Vents/cabin air — **OPEN WHEN FIRE EXTINGUISHED**
- [ ] Master switch
- [ ] Circuit breakers — **CHECK FOR FAULTY CIRCUIT/DO NOT RESET**
- [ ] Radio switches
- [ ] Avionics master
- [ ] Radios/electrical switches

## CABIN FIRE (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Master switch
- [ ] Vents/cabin air/heat
- [ ] Fire extinguisher
- [ ] Vents/cabin air — **OPEN WHEN FIRE EXTINGUISHED**
- [ ] Land

## WING FIRE (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Landing light
- [ ] Taxi light
- [ ] Navigation lights
- [ ] Strobe light
- [ ] Pitot heat
- [ ] Sideslip
- [ ] Land
- [ ] Flaps

## INADVERTENT ICING ENCOUNTER (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Pitot heat
- [ ] Turn back or change altitude — **PULL FULL OUT**
- [ ] Defrost controls
- [ ] Increase RPM — **IF EXCESSIVE VIBRATION, REDUCE TO 2200 RPM AND THEN RAPIDLY INCREASE TO FULL. CYCLE AS NEEDED.**
- [ ] Watch for induction air filter icing — **15 INCHES HG IN MP CAN OCCUR ABOVE 8000 FEET**
- [ ] Plan landing
- [ ] Plan for
- [ ] Open left window
- [ ] Flaps — **USE 10-20° FLAPS FOR ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 INCH OR LESS. FOR GREATER ICE ACCUMULATION, LAND WITH FLAPS RETRACTED TO ENSURE ADEQUATE ELEVATOR EFFECTIVENESS.**
**Approach**
    - [ ] 20° flaps
    - [ ] 0-10° flaps
- [ ] Avoid missed approach — **IF MISSED APPROACH IS MANDATORY, APPLY MAXIMAL POWER AND MAINTAIN 100 KIAS WHILE RETRACTING FLAPS IN 10° INCREMENTS.**

## EXCESSIVE FUEL VAPOR (ABNORMAL)

- [ ] Auxiliary fuel pump
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Fuel selector valve — **SELECT OPPOSITE TANK IF SYMPTOMS CONTINUE**
- [ ] Auxiliary fuel pump switch — **OFF AFTER FUEL FLOW HAS STABILIZED**

## AMMETER – EXCESSIVE RATE OF CHARGE (ABNORMAL)

- [ ] Alternator
- [ ] Nonessential electrical equipment
- [ ] With alternator side of master OFF
- [ ] Nonessential electrical equipment
- [ ] Terminate flight

## LOW VOLTAGE ANNUNCIATOR – AMMETER INDICATES DISCHARGE (ABNORMAL)

- [ ] Avionics master
- [ ] Alternator circuit breaker (ALT FLD)
- [ ] Master switch
- [ ] Master switch
- [ ] Low voltage annunciator
> **NOTE:** IF LOW VOLTAGE ILLUMINATES
- [ ] Alternator
- [ ] Nonessential electrical equipment
- [ ] Terminate flight

## EMERGENCY DESCENT (EMERGENCY)

**SMOOTH AIR**
- [ ] Seats and seat belts
- [ ] Throttle
- [ ] Propeller
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Wing flaps
- [ ] Airspeed
**ROUGH AIR**
- [ ] Seats and seat belts
- [ ] Throttle
- [ ] Propeller
- [ ] Mixture
- [ ] Wing flaps
**Weights and airspeed**
    - [ ] 3600
    - [ ] 2950
    - [ ] 2300

## AUTOPILOT FAILURE (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Control wheel — **GRASP FIRMLY AND MAINTAIN CONTROL OF AIRCRAFT**
- [ ] A/P DISC/TRIM INT switch — **PRESS AND HOLD**
- [ ] Aircraft
- [ ] Autopilot breaker

## STATIC SOURCE BLOCKAGE (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Static pressure alternate source valve — **PULL ON**
- [ ] Heat and air vents — **PULL ON**
- [ ] Vents
- [ ] Airspeed and altitude — **REFER TO CALIBRATION CHARTS**

## SPEEDS

- [ ] Vr — Rotation speed — **55 KIAS**
- [ ] Vx — Best angle climb — **70 (SL) 75 (10K)**
- [ ] Vy — Best rate climb — **86 (SL) 82 (10K)**
- [ ] Vso — Stall with flaps — **38 (rcog) 44 (fcog)**
- [ ] Vs — Stall without flaps — **50 (rcog) 54 (fcog)**
**Va — Maneuvering speed**
    - [ ] 3600 pounds
    - [ ] 2900 pounds
    - [ ] 2200 pounds
- [ ] Vfe — 0 to 10° — **140 KIAS**
- [ ] Vfe — 20 to 40° — **100 KIAS**
- [ ] Vne — Never exceed speed — **182 KIAS**
- [ ] Vno — Maximum structural cruising speed — **149 KIAS**
- [ ] Maximum window open
- [ ] Normal climb out — **75-85 KIAS**
- [ ] Shortfield/Flaps 20° climb — **74 KIAS**
- [ ] Enroute climb
- [ ] Normal approach flaps up — **80-90 KIAS**
- [ ] Normal approach flaps 40° — **70-80 KIAS**
- [ ] Short field approach flaps 40° — **67 KIAS**
- [ ] Balked landing flaps 20° — **80 KIAS**
- [ ] Maximum demonstrated crosswind — **20 KNOTS**
- [ ] Engine failure after takeoff flaps up — **80 KIAS**
- [ ] Engine failure after takeoff flaps down — **70 KIAS**
**Maximum glide**
    - [ ] 3600 pounds
    - [ ] 3200 pounds
    - [ ] 2800 pounds
- [ ] Precautionary landing w/engine power — **70 KIAS**
- [ ] Landing without engine power/flaps up — **80 KIAS**
- [ ] Landing without engine power/flaps down — **70 KIAS**
**Emergency descent**
    - [ ] Smooth air
    - [ ] Rough air — 3600 pounds
    - [ ] Rough air — 2900 pounds
    - [ ] Rough air — 2200 pounds

## PERFORMANCE TABLE

**STAGE — MP — RPM — PITCH — KIAS — VSI**
- [ ] Climb
- [ ] Cruise
- [ ] Cruise Descent
- [ ] Appr Climb
- [ ] Approach
- [ ] Appr Descnt
- [ ] Downwind -10 Degr Flps
- [ ] Downwind -20 Degr Flps
- [ ] Base
- [ ] Final

## EDM 800 REFERENCE

- [ ] Voltage
- [ ] Outside Air Difference between hottest and coldest EGT
- [ ] RPM/MAP
- [ ] Fuel Remaining
- [ ] Fuel required to next GPS WPT or destination
- [ ] Fuel Reserve at next GPS WPT or destination
- [ ] Nautical Miles per Gallon
- [ ] Time to Empty
- [ ] Fuel flow rate
- [ ] Total Fuel Used
- [ ] EGT, CHT
- [ ] Oil Temperature
- [ ] Shock cooling

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NOT FOR FLIGHT — source fidelity: unreviewed | operational review: none | completeness: full  
Source: Cessna/206H Stationair/2000_Cessna_206H_Checklist_v1.txt  
Rights: licensed  
Checklist hash: 71d5b038a1a201406df0c3e84efb4b7d983c1f996413da73518a838261b7f4c6  
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