FLT CREW LNDG AMSTERDAM FAILED TO FOLLOW CHKLIST ON DSCNT AND ENTER CORRECT ALTIMETER SETTING.

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WE WERE CONDUCTING AN EARLY MORNING ARR INTO THE SCHIPHOL (AMSTERDAM) ARPT IN THE NETHERLANDS FOR A VISUAL APCH TO RWY 6; BACKED UP BY THE ILS DME RWY 6. THE APCH HAD BEEN BRIEFED; WITH A PRESELECTED ALTIMETER SETTING OF 996 HPA; AND A TRANSITION LEVEL OF 5000 FT. ALL ELEMENTS OF THE FLT WERE NORMAL. ATC CLRED US TO FL50; ASSIGNED US A SPD OF 310 KTS; AND CLRED US DIRECT TO THE SPL VOR. AT FL50; ABOUT Z5 DME FROM SPL; ATC CLRED US DIRECT TO THE SCHIPHOL LOC (CH) AND TO DSND TO 3000 FT. AS A CREW; OUR CONCERN WAS WITH OUR SPD AND ALT; IN CLOSE PROX TO THE ARPT; ALTHOUGH WE WERE STILL WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF A STABILIZED APCH. BECAUSE OF THIS DISTR; WE WERE SLOW TO ACTIVATE OUR LCL ALTIMETER SETTING. THE ALTIMETER ADJUSTMENT RESULTED IN THE ACFT BEING BELOW THE ASSIGNED 3000 FT ALT. WE CORRECTED THE ALT IMMEDIATELY. AFTER LNDG; I CALLED THE APCH CTL SUPVR. HE TOLD ME THAT THERE WAS NO TFC CONFLICT OR LOSS OF SEPARATION. I BELIEVE THAT KEEPING THE APCH DSCNT CHKLIST VISIBLE UNTIL THE LAST ITEM ON THE LIST (THE ALTIMETER SETTING) HAS BEEN SELECTED; OR DEVELOPING A HABIT PATTERN OF SELECTING THE LCL ALTIMETER SETTING AS SOON AS APCH CTL GIVES IT TO THE CREW; MIGHT PREVENT THIS SORT OF INCIDENT FROM OCCURRING.