Not quite a pre-flight, but.....
Was paxing on an aeromed Kingair in the far west of Qld. When we finished all the various jobs in the community and headed back to the airstrip, the temp was in the mid forties outside, prob twice that in the aeroplane.
The pilot opened the door and nipped around pulling plugs and covers off while the pax climbed in; I grabbed the bags from the vehicle and piled in after everyone else; we were all pretty keen to get the aircon going!
I shut the door, checked the visual lock indicators, grabbed a rear-facing fwd seat and called into the cockpit to the driver that we were all buttoned up and ready to crank.
A sweaty minute or so went by, then there was a tapping sound at my window. I looked out....and there was the pilot, still outside.
