Keg,
The Aircraft I flew had the flaps run out and in while a member of the crew was outside doing a walk around inspection and it was a co-ordinated task to check flaps, ailerons, rudders, landing and taxi lights for each walk around. We then taxi'd with the flaps in the take off position. One of the reasons for this is that the flaps in the take off position also assisted emergency egress from the overwing exits.
My current aircraft deploys the flaps to the take off position after engine start, which can be just before or after the engineer disconnects depending on the speed of things. The exception to this is if operating in cold weather ops where the flaps are extended at the holding point, due slush etc.
Cheers
Last edited by Agony; 24th Nov 2008 at 22:18.