Anyone know of a place that sells laminated checklists for the various aircraft we fly in MSFS?  I'd really like to find one for the TBM 930.  I was able to download a few pdfs, and also the actual POH, so I guess I could DIY something, but was curious.

Why not just buy a Laminating machine (they are not expensive) and roll your own. I also bought a slicer and have used the combination for years and of course you can always adjust the size to suit your need. Be it printing checklists down to ID cards.

I mean it's an awesome business idea that I'm sure is not a lot of effort, but has the market for it. Dibs. 

59 minutes ago, SpaceForceCapt said:

I could DIY something, but was curious

 

40 minutes ago, yellowjack said:

Why not just buy a Laminating machine (they are not expensive) and roll your own. I also bought a slicer and have used the combination for years and of course you can always adjust the size to suit your need.

I laminated kneeboard sized checklists and performance settings for years with a machine.  I have since moved those docs to my iPad and iPhone as pdf files.  They are easy to access that way with the Acrobat app and I am able to zoom in for larger print and scroll pages.  I create them in Microsoft Excel and thus can store and modify them as I learn each particular aircraft.  My Windows 10 print routines provides a "Microsoft Print to PDF" printer option in the print dialog.  Here is a pdf I use as a checklist just to get MSFS started.

 

 

 

Edited February 23, 20224 yr by fppilot

38 minutes ago, yellowjack said:

Why not just buy a Laminating machine (they are not expensive) and roll your own. I also bought a slicer and have used the combination for years and of course you can always adjust the size to suit your need. Be it printing checklists down to ID cards.

Got one from my wife as a Birthday present back in December and now have many laminated Checklists 😉 

14 minutes ago, flieger28 said:

Got one from my wife as a Birthday present back in December and now have many laminated Checklists 😉

Tell me you're getting older without telling me you're getting older haha! I would love a laminating machine for a present. 

1 hour ago, yellowjack said:

Why not just buy a Laminating machine (they are not expensive) and roll your own. I also bought a slicer and have used the combination for years and of course you can always adjust the size to suit your need. Be it printing checklists down to ID cards.

The ID card idea would've come in handy back in college, haha😁

3 hours ago, SpaceForceCapt said:

Anyone know of a place that sells laminated checklists for the various aircraft we fly in MSFS?  I'd really like to find one for the TBM 930.  I was able to download a few pdfs, and also the actual POH, so I guess I could DIY something, but was curious.

15 hours ago, SpaceForceCapt said:

Anyone know of a place that sells laminated checklists for the various aircraft we fly in MSFS?

I doubt it. There are too many planes and too many kinds of 'checklists' in order to make this work. Just look at the two lists that are posted in this topic: neither come close to a real world checklist. They are more or less personal to do lists with a lot of sim-related information. They contain a lot of stuff not found on regular checklists. I wonder how many simmers actually use real world checklists. I myself also always create personal to do lists, mainly to use while learning a plane and secondly in order to get back into flying a plane whenever I haven't flown it for a few months or so: my to do lists would be quite useless for real world use. So no, I don't think starting a business to create and sell laminated checklists is a good idea.

I am sure there is some sort of copy shop in your city where you can laminate your prints!

Any real pilot shop will have these for most GA aircraft.  Here is what is available at Sporty's:

https://www.sportys.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=laminated+checklist

 

2 hours ago, cshark172 said:

Any real pilot shop will have these for most GA aircraft.  Here is what is available at Sporty's:

https://www.sportys.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=laminated+checklist

 

Great answer to his question. All well and good.  However there are perhaps 20X more checklist items on those real life lists than are modeled in the sim aircraft.  So they are nice to read and understand but overkill for use in the simulator.

Edited February 24, 20224 yr by fppilot

57 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Great answer to his question. All well and good.  However there are perhaps 20X more checklist items on those real life lists than are modeled in the sim aircraft.  So they are nice to read and understand but overkill for use in the simulator.

The items that do not apply to the sim, I just skip over.   I like using real-world checklists.  I find with an A2A aircraft I'm skipping a lot less 😎 👍

42 minutes ago, Mace said:

I find with an A2A aircraft I'm skipping a lot less

Same for me in the RealAir Duke and Turbo Duke v2.  The Simworks Kodiak 100 is the only GA model I have found for MSFS with any significant depth.

On 2/24/2022 at 7:23 AM, cshark172 said:

Any real pilot shop will have these for most GA aircraft.  Here is what is available at Sporty's:

https://www.sportys.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=laminated+checklist

 

Thanks, this is exactly what I'm after, but no TBM =(  Probably just have to make my own, I guess.

On 2/25/2022 at 3:41 AM, fppilot said:

Same for me in the RealAir Duke and Turbo Duke v2.  The Simworks Kodiak 100 is the only GA model I have found for MSFS with any significant depth.

I doubt the Kodiak is used much for GA.  It is almost invariable used in commercial ops of some sort.