My 'daily' involves controls full and free, correct sense, running the trims through their full range, and the engine controls through full range. Doesn't everybody do this?
Captain Dart,
Not, by any chance, are you the well known Captain Lawn Dart??
Re. control checks that are properly completed, given the accident record, obviously not.
After engine shutdown on B707, part of the check was to run the thrust levers through their full range to make certain the reverse thrust was stowed and interlocks cleared.
I recall the day an F/O in memory mode did this before the engines were shut down. To say that the ground staff were a little startled would have been the understatement of the year. Thank Hewie we didn't kill or injure anybody, our post flight beer would have got warm completing the paperwork.