[rtkwe]

It's also probably partially attributable to the fact that it's their own life on the line if they skip a checklist step like lowering landing gear.

That in combination with training. It's just the cultural thing to do, everyone uses checklists, a pilot from the moment they start training is always doing check lists.

It also helps that a checklist for a plane is always relevant where a checklist for a procedure is more variable.

[WalterBright]

Their career is also on the line, even if they live through the incident. Nobody wants to keep on a pilot who is careless with at $100m machine.

[rtkwe]

Yeah there's definitely a difference in the culture where checklists are the norm in aerospace where they're a new and developing thing in medicine.