[USMC-SGT]

It took a bit to get used to of course to find out the best order but my flow is (few tricks included.)

On the way in for an airport that doesnt differentiate from departure to arrival atis and you dont have D-atis..skip the atis, if it hasnt changed you already have it from the approach you just have to verify it hasnt changed to a special or within the hour.

Once you land and checklist are done, fly outside with the first of the pax and do the walkaround. For those not in 121 it is not a standard walkaround since you cant reach or see most parts it truely is just a walk around where you do a good visual inspection of all the important parts and make sure nothing fell off or broke on the last flight.

As soon as you hop back in the plane get the clearance (if you do 30 minute turns it is all ready to go if not and it is before 30 minutes skip to the next step.)

Enter the clearance as filed. I save most flight plans because they are canned or just copy them off the release into the FMS so all I have to do is load it If you copy it off the release we typically get as filed but it is alot easier to make a few changes than enter the whole thing.

In any downtime or if there isnt any I will start with the runway data into the acars since I have the atis already I can enter the runway in use and any other 2 runways we may get. I also will go ahead and enter the fuel into the fuel page and have it loaded up to the weight and balance section so once we get the loadsheet and the count I just have to enter it and hit send.

Total breakdown:
"In" time to being able to get off and preflight ~4 minutes

Preflight ~4 minutes or so

Atis and clearance ~2 minutes maybe more if you are at PIT since they tell you every one of the 17 taxiway closings

Entering the flight plan ~1 minute

Getting the fuel page and T/O data entered and getting the weight and balance set up ~2 minutes

Total time to present :13 minutes

For the next 7-10 minutes you just verify what youve done, do the departure briefing and discuss any changes, MELs, DMIs departure and destination weather and anything else you want to talk about and last but not least the agent hands you the load sheet and the girls in back hand you the count and you throw the numbers in and send them out and enter your data when it comes back.

Close the doors, call for push and off you go.

Granted that your mileage will vary because we have acars and EVERYTHING goes into it and gets spit back out so it would take a little more work obviously if you have to crank the wiz wheel for your numbers.