Originally Posted by
dera
If you're saying all you do on your preflight are the items on your manual, you should get a 709 ride and get all your certificates pulled.
"Sir, there was a dead body hanging from the vertical stabilizer but it wasn't in the preflight so I didn't care".
Read the definition of "check" on your manual. On pretty much every Part 25 airplane, paint chips have to be checked by a mechanic to make sure they are of size and shape that is acceptable.
Tell me where bonding straps and paint chips are part of the checklist. What about weeping rivets?
Nobody said a dead body but opening a cowling to try and find a grounding item isn’t there either.