# Saab 2000 — MAX_Saab2000_Checklist

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

> **content_gap**: Section "Approach Checklist" item count differs between passes (13 vs 15); verify nothing was dropped.
> **content_gap**: Section "Landing Checklist" item count differs between passes (6 vs 16); verify nothing was dropped.

## Pre-Start Checklist

- [ ] Parking Brakes — **SET**
- [ ] Battery Switch — **OFF**
- [ ] Alt Switch — **OFF**
- [ ] Generator Switches — **OFF**
- [ ] Throttle — **IDLE**
- [ ] Landing Gear Lever — **CHECK DOWN**
- [ ] Propeller — **HIGH RPM**
- [ ] Fuel Cond. Lever — **FUEL CUTOFF (Ctrl-Shift-F1)**
- [ ] Flaps — **UP**
- [ ] Battery Switch — **ON**
- [ ] Fuel Quantity — **CHECK**
- [ ] Flight controls — **CHECK**
- [ ] Check Weather — **(ATIS, Flight Services)**
- [ ] De-Ice — **TEST/CHECK**
- [ ] Request Clearance
- [ ] Transponder — **STANDBY**
- [ ] Beacon — **ON**

## Startup Checklist

- [ ] Engine and Propeller Area — **CLEAR**
- [ ] Throttle — **IDLE**
- [ ] Fuel Flow — **ON (Ctrl-Shift-F4)**
- [ ] Right Ignition and Engine Start Switch — **ON (hold until engine starts)**
- [ ] Right ITT and Turbine PWR — **MONITOR**
- [ ] Right Generator — **ON**
- [ ] Left Ignition and Engine Start Switch — **ON (hold until engine starts)**
- [ ] Left ITT and Turbine PWR — **MONITOR**
- [ ] Left Generator — **ON**
- [ ] Feather/Unfeather Props — **CHECK once**
- [ ] Engine Instruments — **CHECK**

## Before Taxi Checklist

- [ ] Nav Lights — **ON**
- [ ] Taxi Lights — **ON**
- [ ] Heading Indicator/Altimeter — **SET**
- [ ] Instruments — **NORMAL OPERATION**
- [ ] Radios and Avionics — **CHECKED and SET**
- [ ] Autopilot — **SET and OFF**
- [ ] F/D — **ON**
- [ ] Yaw Damper — **ON**
- [ ] Request Taxi Clearance

## Taxi Checklist

- [ ] Parking Brake — **RELEASE**
- [ ] Brakes — **CHECK during taxi**
- [ ] Directional Gyro — **PROPER IND. during turns**
- [ ] Turn Coordinator — **PROPER IND. during turns**
- [ ] Artificial Horizon — **ERECT during turns**
- [ ] Taxi to assigned runway — **SPEED Max. 20 knots**

## Before Take-off Checklist

- [ ] Parking Brake — **SET**
- [ ] Fuel Quantity — **CHECK**
- [ ] Throttle — **IDLE**
- [ ] Elevator Trim — **SET for takeoff**
- [ ] Flaps — **Pos 1**
- [ ] Flight Controls — **FREE AND CORRECT**
- [ ] Engine/Flight Instruments — **CHECK**
- [ ] Radios and Avionics — **SET**
- [ ] Landing Lights — **ON**
- [ ] Strobe Light — **ON**
- [ ] Pitot Heat — **ON**
- [ ] De-Ice — **AS REQUIRED**
- [ ] Annunciator Lights — **CHECK**
- [ ] Transponder — **ON**
- [ ] Request Takeoff Clearance

## Take-off Checklist

- [ ] Smoothly increase thrust to — **FULL**
- [ ] Brakes — **RELEASE**
- [ ] V1 = Vr = — **110 KIAS**
- [ ] Pitch — **8-10 degrees**
- [ ] V2 = — **120 KIAS**
- [ ] At Positive Climb Rate Touch Brakes
- [ ] Landing Gear — **RETRACT**
- [ ] Flaps — **RETRACT**
- [ ] Annunciator Lights/Eng. Instruments — **CHECK**

## Climb-out Checklist

- [ ] Autopilot — **CHECK and SET**
- [ ] Taxi Lights — **OFF**
- [ ] Landing Lights — **OFF**
- [ ] Airspeed — **205 KIAS / 1800 fpm 85%**
- [ ] above 12,000 ft — **200 KIAS / 1700 fpm 85%**
- [ ] above 18,000 ft — **180 KIAS / 1500 fpm 80%**
- [ ] Engine Instruments — **MONITOR**
- [ ] ATC — **AS REQUIRED**
- [ ] At Transition Altitude (FL180) set Altimeter to — **29,92" (1013mb)**

## Cruise Checklist

- [ ] Accelerate to cruise speed at 6,000 ft — **240 KIAS 80%**
- [ ] at 9,000 ft — **240 KIAS 80%**
- [ ] at 12,000 ft — **230 KIAS 80%**
- [ ] at 18,000 ft — **220 KIAS 80%**
- [ ] at 24,000 ft — **220 KIAS 80%**
- [ ] Service Ceiling — **FL310**
- [ ] Engine+Instruments — **CHECK**
- [ ] Fuel Quantity — **CHECK**
- [ ] Radios — **TUNED and SET**
- [ ] Autopilot — **CHECK and SET**
- [ ] Lights — **AS REQUIRED**

## Descent Checklist

- [ ] Atis/Airport Information — **CHECK**
- [ ] Altimeter — **CHECK**
- [ ] Radios — **SET**
- [ ] Descent Speed — **240 KIAS 60%**
- [ ] Descent Rate — **-1800 fpm**
- [ ] Flaps / Landing Gear — **CHECK UP**
- [ ] At Transition Altitude (FL180) reset Altimeter to local
- [ ] Check Weather — **(ATIS, Flight Services)**

## Approach Checklist

- [ ] Localizer Level Flight : Landing Lights — **ON**
- [ ] Speed: Establish — **180 KIAS 37%**
- [ ] Flaps — **Pos 1**
- [ ] Speed: Establish — **160 KIAS 40%**
- [ ] Flaps — **Pos 2**
- [ ] Speed: Establish — **140 KIAS 37%**
- [ ] Landing Gear — **DOWN**
- [ ] Turning toward runway: set flaps — **Pos 3 or FULL DOWN**
- [ ] Final Glideslope Descent : Speed: Establish — **130 KIAS 18%**
- [ ] Descent Rate — **-xxx fpm**
- [ ] Elevator Trim — **AS DESIRED**
- [ ] Parking Brake — **VERIFY OFF**
- [ ] De-Ice — **AS REQUIRED**

## Landing Checklist

- [ ] Landing Gear — **CHECK DOWN, 3 GREEN**
- [ ] Autopilot — **OFF**
- [ ] Landing Speed — **120 KIAS**
- [ ] Touchdown — **MAIN WHEELS FIRST**
- [ ] Landing Roll — **LOWER NOSE WHEEL**
- [ ] After touchdown Apply Reverse Thrust, at 60 kts: Cancel Reverse Thrust

## Taxi To Ramp

- [ ] Strobe Light — **OFF**
- [ ] Taxi Lights — **ON**
- [ ] Landing Lights — **OFF**
- [ ] Flaps — **RETRACT**
- [ ] De-Ice — **OFF**
- [ ] Transponder — **1200**
- [ ] Speed — **Max. 20 knots**
- [ ] Elevator Trim — **TAKEOFF SETTING**
- [ ] Avionics/Radios — **AS REQUIRED**

## Shutdown Checklist

- [ ] Parking Brake — **SET**
- [ ] Throttle — **IDLE**
- [ ] F/D — **OFF**
- [ ] Taxi Lights — **OFF**
- [ ] Pitot Heat — **OFF**
- [ ] Nav Lights — **OFF**
- [ ] Fuel Cond. Lever — **FUEL CUTOFF (Ctrl-Shift-F1)**
- [ ] Beacon — **OFF**
- [ ] Generators — **OFF**
- [ ] Battery Switch — **OFF**

## Securing Aircraft

- [ ] Parking Brake — **Verify SET**
- [ ] Throttle — **Verify IDLE**
- [ ] All Switches — **Verify OFF**

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NOT FOR FLIGHT — source fidelity: unreviewed | operational review: none | completeness: full  
Source: Saab/2000/MAX_Saab2000_Checklist.txt  
Rights: licensed  
Checklist hash: ca100c5cd8cd7d324c155d4cc5dc6141cff5c2c5bfbbc8178bd51986ed9673d7  
Verify against the aircraft's own approved documentation before use.