I didn't use my checklist that day and somehow I managed to depart that grass strip with the brake engaged. I parked on a slight slope and set the parking brake, which I rarely do. A couple years ago I went in to some guy's grass strip up in Oklahoma. It just takes one radio call, cell phone call, comment from a passenger, etc. It's easy to fly a simple airplane like a Cub or even a 180 without a checklist, but all you gotta do is take off once with the control lock in or the fuel selector on the wrong setting and it can ruin your day. I use flows in flight without referencing a checklist, but as you can see from the attachment I've loaded other good info into mine that I like to have handy. In other words, I run a flow and then I go back through the checklist after I run my flow to make sure I didn't miss anything. I use it religiously before takeoff as a check-list, not as a do-list. I also wrote a checklist for my 180 when I bought it. It was always there but never in the way. But eventually I wrote a checklist that worked for me, typed it up on about a 3x5" piece of paper, and taped it up forward of the left sight gage. When I first bought my Cub I did like you and used no checklist. Glide path with flaps down is pretty steep especially when you don't have engine hydraulics to retract them.
He took off, with the cross feed on, the flaps down and yes lost both engines in the process. Another case I know of where the pilot of a twin used flaps down from preflight check to remind him to shut off the cross feed from the cross feed check. Works fine until the warning horn fails which it did and the rest is history. Many pilots for instance used leave the flaps retracted to remind themselves to start a remaining engine, figuring if they took the runway and got the horn, they would say, oops I've got a third or fourth engine to start. Personally "gear down" is on my checklist.
The choice to put it on or off the checklist is yours, and so are the consequences. Not everyone on that ramp is aware of the risks. I don't know Bob, can someone get killed by being hit by the prop if you forget to clear the area? Does the engine require any less of an teardown and inspection if you have a gear up prop strike against pavement or human flesh? Seems to me the consequences of one are greater than the other, so should you take the same precautions or even greater? Remember this is GA.
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