On pre-flight inspections

On Jul 27, 11:04*am, Ron Garret wrote:
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*D Ramapriya wrote:

Depends on what counts as "significant deferrment" and what counts as
"pre-flight".

By pre-flight, I meant that bit which you do ere stepping into the
flight deck - I thought there's not much ambiguity on what constitutes
pre-flight?

Something like a 2-hour delay, purely as an upshot of what you
discovered during the pre-flight inspection, was what I had in mind by
significant deferrment.


*I've been delayed by an hour or so a couple of times, and
had to cancel once because of a rough engine during the run-up


Correct me if I'm wrong but engine runups are part of the mechanics'
pre-handover (of the aircraft) routine, right? It's after that that
the aircraft is towed on to the ramp and delivered to the pilots. I've
only ever seen runups being performed near uninhabited areas outside
hangars.

Ramapriya