Originally Posted by Cleared4appch

Yea. The reason I suspect it wasn’t checked on lineup is because there’s a surprising number of captains at my regional that don’t seem to care for checking runway heading. It irritates me. I’ve even had a few sim instructors that seem to want to skip over that. A lot of them seemed annoyed that’s it on the checklist and I’ve always wondered why they think it’s ’redundant’ checklist verbiage. It’s not. If that heading isn’t checked on lineup it will come back to bite the crew in the rear end as it did here. Another example is departing in a mountainous area at night or in IMC and there’s an engine failure. Now they can’t climb as quickly and they may be heading straight for a mountain on an incorrect heading. It won’t seem so ‘pointless’ to these guys then.