To all the young aspering pilots out there. I saw an incednt today at the airport I dispatch out of. At a flying school a man started up a 172 and it bolted out of his paking spot out on the taxi way knocking several taxi way light over, nose Wheel started to lift and he was almost airborne on the taxi way, but he got her slowed down and stoped off the taxi way. When I asked him if he was allright he said yes, I asked him what happened, he siad the throttle was full in. He said he forgot to go over the checklist. DOH. So as boring as those checklist are they are there for your safty and the safty of others, Please use the checklist untill you got it down pat, evan then it dosnt hurt to glance at it once and a while.

I went flying last weekend and there was a different checklist  in the airplane than there was usually, but it was still for a 172.  I was surprised with how different it was, I have the usual one mostly memorized so I went through it in my head checking myself as I went along though.  I was taught to keep my hand on the throttle throughout start up, from the turn of the key to 700-800 RPM.  He probably shouldn't have gone flying that day.

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Exactly.