Seems to me the holes in the Swiss cheese are beginning to line up!
If the maintainer does as much or as little as he sees fit and the Captain then does the same. How are we to know if the entire pre-flight IAW the flight manual has been carried out?
When we sign and accept an aircraft, we are responsible or irresponsible, what ever the case for the pre-flight inspection and the aircraft.
SuperF, You make my point for me! Airmanship is dead. You had to go look at your operation manual to find out if you needed to pre-flight your aircraft!