"Mike" wrote in message news:Imibk.517$HY.404@trnddc01...

If you miss damage during the pre-flight, then you're not doing a pre-flight.

Nonsense. If you are human, and especially if you lack x-ray vision, you can
miss damage on a preflight.

I teach my students that they are looking for damage for two reasons: 1) To
preserve their own lives. 2) So that they do not get blamed for something
someone else did.

For the average young student pilot (all young folks think they are immortal)
I feel that reason #2 is more motivating. I don't care WHY they do the proper
preflight, I just want them to do it.

Vaughn