On Jul 27, 12:41*am, D Ramapriya wrote:
Has any of you has ever discovered something during the pre-flight
inspection that necessitated a significant deferrment of your flight
plan or a cancelation altogether? Just curious, that's all.

Thanks,

Ramapriya

Well, I found a flat tire, lots of water in the fuel tanks (early M20J
fuel tank caps were hard to put on correctly), bird's nest in the
engine campartment that took a while to remove, pitot tube not hot,
bad nick in the prop. . . That's all that comes to mind with about
2000 hours TT.


Prior to take off I found a broken carb heat cable in an M20C, one mag
not working, Nav radio not working,

I did watch a PA28 do turns around a tiedown once because the PIC
didn't untie the left wing before trying to taxi out.