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St Stephen Ames wrote:

> I have been watching, as I hang out at my friendly FBO, and have 
> noticed a very disturbing trend...I have seen less than more of the 
> people preflight their aircrafts to any real level...All the students > do but the people that own their own planes don't eem to go over them > as hard, if at all...Is that as common as it appears?

Just one comment, sometimes people preflight then go off to file
a flight plan etc and just walk up and jump in.  So can't always
judge, unless you're certain you're seeing them arrive for the 
first time (I lock the plane, and leave it tied down when I drive
off to file or meet with my instructor so maybe it would look like
I don't preflight, but I do!).

Also when I've just flown somewhere else, I don't do as thorough
a preflight before flying back, just walk around and check the
fuel and oil.  When someone else has just flown a rental plane,
I preflight thoroughly because I don't trust the other renter to
have checked everything to the same degree I do.

I do think sometimes plane owners get complacent, they know they
are the only ones flying the plane so they figure nothing has 
changed.  I wish that were always true!!!

Regards,
Snowbird


