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Bruce McCulley wrote:

> Snowbird wrote:

> > njoy_life@hotmail.com wrote:
> > > In God we trust, Check everything else.

> > Well, it sounds good, but in practice "checking everything
> > else" on even a small aircraft takes several hours of removing
> > access covers, cowling, and interior and then a couple of days
> > of crawling in, under, and around peering and touching and
> > testing.
 
> I disagree.  "Checking everything else" is still open to some
> subjective interpretation.  <...>
> So I think we CAN check everything, with an appropriate level
> of care.  The real point of this thread is that after observing
> something questionable, just asking the CFI and accepting his
> dismissal of the issue is not the appropriate level of care!

Hokay, disagree all you like.  Yes, the original author's point
was as you say: accepting the dismissal of something questionable
is not appropriate.

My point is:
How many rental pilots know anything about the mechanics who work
on the planes they rent?  Anything about the logbooks and history of
the planes they fly?  Any damage history? 

If you feel you can check everything on a preflight, good for you.
I'll just say, until we got a plane I don't think I appreciated 
how far *I* was from being able to "check everything" important
on a preflight, even on a plane with a hinge-and-latch cowl.  Maybe 
many consciencious pilots who do thorough preflights are in the same
boat of not realizing, that if they haven't checked the logbooks and
met the mechanics who maintain the planes they rent, they're in
the same boat.  Missing important information which they can't check
on preflight: can they trust the mechanics who work on these planes
with their lives?.

Snowbird


