"D Ramapriya" wrote in message
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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?

One day I had pulled a glider out to the flight line and completed my
pre-flight, only to find that the tow pilot was taking a bathroom break.
Just to kill time, I wandered over to the tow plane and gave it a casual
once-over. To my shock, I discovered that one of the struts on the
horizontal stabilizer was broken loose from its fuselage attachment. That
plane's next flight might have been its last!

Needless to day, there were no more tows that day.

Vaughn