Our aero club flies 1969 Cessna T-41Cs. The checklist that the aero club provides in the airplane is an old, spiral bound notebook with many, many pages of large text to flip through, and finding any relevant emergency section quickly is really difficult. In addition, the order of things is sometimes erroneous or inefficient (for example, sump the fuel is first thing, even though we can't do that yet when it's in the hangar and so it gets easily forgotten).
To make things easier (and hopefully safer) I made my own checklist which incorporates all of the action items on the club-provided one, but also adds other items (passenger briefing, reference speeds, takeoff briefing, etc.) so they're not accidentally skipped over. It's formatted to all fit on 2 laminated pages, with all the emergency checklists much more readily at hand.
The question is can I use this on my checkride? I've had different CFIs mixed on the answer. Some say yes, others say it has to be an "officially approved" checklist, which sadly means the one that you'll die before you find the right page. The ACS certification standards just say to use an "appropriate checklist." Is it just up to the discretion of the DPE?
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