Originally Posted by
Jimmy.
I agree. However, sometimes a pilot could be fliyng in a company with a tight flight schedule -45 minutes between flights, down to 30 in some occasions-, where pilots are not allowed to clean or wash the helicopters and the maintenance perform preflight inspections -pilots just performing turnarounds.
Well if you trust these chaps with your preflight then you might as well just trust them with how thoroughly they clean the thing.