Hi, and thank you for your feedback.
You might be right about landing list. I know in real life it really goes like you said. My argument for challenge type list reading was to get single player pilot to check all critical items when Jester won't do it for you. But you are not only one who has said it will take too long time. I will think about changing it.
About AWACS calls on mission 1 and 3. There should not be any AWACS radio traffic on departure channel (preset 2, 328.0 MHz) or approach channel (preset 5, 255.0 MHz). AWACS should be heard only on Preset 3 (225.0 MHz). Can you confirm neither one of your radios to be set on preset 3 and still hearing AWACS calls? If you leave either radio on preset 1 (259.0 MHz) you will hear BARCAP flight calls.