But the pilots.......
Things having to be written in the Log or someone remembering to tell someone or having to have streamers etc etc. Surely to goodness though, the pilot(s) would want to know that nothing like this has been missed and would therefore would want to physically eyeball such fundamental items as the Pitot probes for themselves before trying to get airborne?
Cock-ups will always happen of course, and many of us have lots of experience of busy turnarounds and busy engineers, but surely that is why us pilots must check such fundamental things properly ??
We seem to be going backwards in safety, instead of learning from past mistakes.