Oh my, emergency procedures!
Most pilots are quick to pay lip service to knowing those procedures cold. Everyone can rattle off the blatantly obvious reason: an emergency can strike at any time, and if it does, you have no time to flip through the POH, so thou shalt be able to recite said procedures from memory faster than you can recall your date of birth or the name of your high school sweetheart.
And yet, an alarming number of students and licensed pilots have at best a vague recollection of most emergency checklists. Let's look into why this happens and how we can fix it!