Run-ups during a flight
… well not exactly, I couldn’t think of a better title.
So let’s just say you’re on an AFR flight (I chose AFR to make the scenario more black and white).
You took off from Essendon and you flew to Moorabbin and were cleared to the apron. With engine still running, you check your maps and route, clean up, get the information and taxi out with your clearance to the holding point which is on the way past the run-up bay.
Your instructor says go straight to the holding point for the runways and do some checks there which you assume include a run-up. As you approach the holding point, you do a control check and all is good. You then set up to do a quick run-up and the instructor tells you not to do it.
You say that you want to do a run-up and the instructor clearly tells you not to, giving the advice that nothing with the engine has changed during the flight, it hasn’t been shut down and it’s not necessary to do a run-up.
Do you:
- Take the instructors advice and not do it?
- Tell the instructor you’re doing it anyway and just do it?
- Something else?
Remember you are a licensed pilot with a current AFR.
Side note: On such a flight where you don’t shut down the engine, would you always do a mag check before departing again?