Originally Posted by
Pontius Pilot
The answer to that scenario is "it broke on landing".
Or - "I hit it with my Jepps about 30 seconds ago".
How could they prove it was broken previous to that?
If we were to write up every specific little stupid thing then the planes would never fly. No airline would go anywhere. Ontime performance wouldn't exist. There are things you have to chose to ignore. Pick your battles wisely because you can't fight them all.
Or, you could follow the company policy to the letter like you are being paid to do. Your "assumption" that the planes woudl never go anywhere speaks volumes about your time at 121 airlines. Just because you, and those around you are a bunch of cowboys, don't lump the rest of the profession into that group. There are many who take their job seriously, and do not play managements wink and nod game... those are the ones you should learn from.
I have NEVER heard of a pilot anywhere getting in trouble for writing something up that was broken... while the record books and accident files are full of examples of those who didn't.