Originally Posted by Rotorbiggles
I have joined a syndicate which has different engineering (of the reasuringly picky kind..) but it does make you think given that Uncle Frank (not a man to waste words or pages in the POH) makes it part of the checklist
Sounds like a good move. IMHO, the checklist was devised to cater for low hours pilots like me. If anything is not exactly as it should be, you ask an engineer, and use your common sense to decide if a
don't worry it'll be ok' answer is acceptable, or just don't fly till it's sorted.
The Robbie's fairly simple, and you can choose to only fly it with zero defects (other than being a Robbie) and rarely be disappointed: you commercial chaps flying every day with half a dozen deferred defects in thousands of different components and deciding if it's in or out of a tolerance level have a much harder job to do!
BW