I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who was worried. I know of one elderly owner/PPL whose check A one day, after the machine had not flown for about a month, took him less than two minutes. It was completed while holding a conversation with me - in fact I walked off in the end in case it was me distracting him but that was it - check complete! It would have been as much use to have looked it over from the car window, for it's lack of thoroughness. Sadly, I suspect his attitude would not change now no matter how much instructional brow-beating he was subjected to...
I guess it's down to the individual. I have been lucky to have been taught and checked-out by some highly skilled, responsible and safety-conscious pilots, but, in any case, I have a safety-conscious attitude myself so I take that sort of thing on board. When I watch the checks and flying antics of some (and I stress only
some ) of my fellow pilots, it makes me cringe...
