Just thought I'd post this link to an excellent piece by Capt Kevin Garrison that is published on the excellent <a href="http://www.avweb.com/" target="_blank">AvWeb site</a>.
<a href="http://www.avweb.com/articles/ceo/ceo0001.html" target="_blank">
CEO Of The Cockpit: Feeling Secure</a>
It is an amusing and very well written piece that offers a small insight to part of the routine for us pilots when we arrive at the aircraft and is suitable reading for those posters on these forums who are not pilots but think they know everythjng that our jobs entail.