AviatorCast: Flight Training & Aviation Podcast

AviatorCast: Flight Training & Aviation Podcast


Preflight Rules to Live By — AviatorCast 129

November 08, 2019

Flying is an exercise that can seriously penalize you for complacency. Before pilots ever step into an aircraft, they (should) do a preflight. Otherwise you’re at the mercy of all sorts of things that could be wrong with the airplane, perhaps even lending you hopeless with a broken ship while in there air. 
No-one wants that, so we do a thorough preflight, which is a list of items and things to check before accepting that the aircraft is airworthy for flight. 
In this podcast we will discuss:

* Why a preflight should never be skipped
* How a preflight eliminates the domino effect in some accidents
* How a preflight can get you in a safety mindset for the start
* The way a preflight shows your passengers you care
* Why having a focused preflight is important
* How mixing things up now and again is ‘safe’

Preflight is simply one of those things that is inarguably the safest thing you can do to start. Find out why!