Radix
Yes I check the controls before each and every t/o.
I am always supisious of an aircraft just out of maintenance, any maintenance. Like it or not you are a test pilot when you conduct the first attempt to get airborne, after engineers have been at it. All due respect to our engineering colleagues of course.
I did raise the subject of my suspicions to an engineer once. He respond in hast "I am always suspicious of an aircraft when a pilot has been near it!!
