Full and free?
The Lufthansa story reflects great credit on LH but raises a question that I'd like to ask the big-iron drivers.
When we little people check our aircraft before taxi, the "full and free" check includes looking out of the window to see if the control surfaces are going up and down. With a large swept-wing aircraft, I imagine you can't see the control surfaces from the flight deck? During pre-flight check do you, as the LH techs did after maintenance on the incident aircraft, just move the sidestick and assume that the control surfaces are working, or do you have someone outside looking to see?