Originally Posted by
GliderCFI
I think it's fleet/base specific for sure. In a Midwestern base in a French airplane I NEVER once had a CA offer to do a walk around. Not even in Bermuda, where the weather was WAY above Captain walk around mins. Yet NY 7ER I saw captains do a lot of them. 717 I think most of the A's take walk arounds as a PM. Heck I even did it in the rain recently! Voluntarily!
I was a DTW73NB for about 2.5 years and only ever had 1, maybe 2 Captain not do the walkaround.