pre-flight check
pre-flight inspection

Approximately 30 minutes prior to launch, aircraft are started, and pre-flight inspections are conducted.

Erica, in a hurry to get back to Pine Valley, insists the pilot take off without the pre-flight inspection or filing a flight plan.

A loaded handgun was found during a pre-flight inspection on the team's plane after a game in Boston earlier this month.

And that he would see to it that men of like mind carried out the necessary pre-flight inspections.

He continued to the parking lot near his airplane, parked, got out, and began walking methodically around the Cessna, performing his usual pre-flight inspection.

After a thorough pre-flight inspection of the single-engine airplane, he phoned air-traffic control for his clearance, then took off, following the airport's mandated departure procedure.

The damage was not discovered on a post-flight inspection, or subsequent pre-flight inspections, and was only noticed by an aircraft maintenance technician 8 days later.

If pre-flight inspections of aircraft are not technical inspections, then what are they?

The low wing design makes refuelling, fuel drains, and control linkages easy to access during the pre-flight inspection.

Inadequate pre-flight inspection was a contributory factor.