Narrative:

The first day attempting to implement phase one procedures the new ship sets; expiration date verified; were in place on aircraft; a 777 flight. Post board directions were followed and the QRH hard cards were exchanged and electronic checklist (ecl) K was selected and reset. Maintenance was busy closing open cabin log items we had sent in and a 20 minute delay was in effect for late connecting passengers. Ten minutes prior to departure my cockpit crew began the predeparture briefing which lead us to discovering a huge omission in the aircraft equipment; no emergency evacuation checklist had been installed. A call was made to the dispatcher for a phone patch the duty manager to seek a solution. A couple of calls later it was confirmed that the aircraft could not dispatch without the checklist. Maintenance was contacted to correct the problem but had no idea what we wanted or why. After an hour and fifteen minutes of conferring they arrived at a solution of copying the clipboard checklist off a sister aircraft at a nearby gate and taping those copies to the clipboards on our aircraft. We departed two hours late. This may have easily been overlooked had we as a crew not attempted to physically touch the evacuation checklist. As a final note; none of the flight crew could locate the emergency evacuation checklist in the ecl. The problem is that the clipboard checklist is not the complete checklist; it does not reference flight deck assignments in the cabin; also it does not direct flight crews to look to any hard copy or ecl checklist to reference flight crew cabin assignments and it does not end in checklist complete; therefore it seems incomplete in its current form.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B777 Captain reported his flight was delayed because paper copies of the Emergency Evacuation Checklist was discovered missing during the preflight briefing and that checklist was a no go item.

Narrative: The first day attempting to implement Phase One procedures the new Ship Sets; expiration date verified; were in place on aircraft; a 777 flight. Post board directions were followed and the QRH hard cards were exchanged and Electronic Checklist (ECL) K was selected and reset. Maintenance was busy closing open cabin log items we had sent in and a 20 minute delay was in effect for late connecting passengers. Ten minutes prior to departure my cockpit crew began the predeparture briefing which lead us to discovering a huge omission in the aircraft equipment; no Emergency Evacuation Checklist had been installed. A call was made to the Dispatcher for a phone patch the Duty Manager to seek a solution. A couple of calls later it was confirmed that the aircraft could not dispatch without the Checklist. Maintenance was contacted to correct the problem but had no idea what we wanted or why. After an hour and fifteen minutes of conferring they arrived at a solution of copying the clipboard checklist off a sister aircraft at a nearby gate and taping those copies to the clipboards on our aircraft. We departed two hours late. This may have easily been overlooked had we as a crew not attempted to physically touch the Evacuation Checklist. As a final note; none of the flight crew could locate the Emergency Evacuation checklist in the ECL. The problem is that the clipboard checklist is not the complete checklist; it does not reference flight deck assignments in the cabin; also it does not direct flight crews to look to any hard copy or ECL checklist to reference flight crew cabin assignments and it does not end in Checklist Complete; therefore it seems incomplete in its current form.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.