Post Flight Walk Around
 

I thought I get an opinion from the peanut gallery about a situation I had as a passenger. I won't give out what airline but it was a CRJ. The aircraft arrived about 1 hour prior to the departure and there was a crew swap. It was raining out. The next crew was delayed and arrived at the aircraft about 15 minutes after scheduled departure and found a tire that needed to be replaced. Now my question comes that had the previous crew done post flight walk around wouldn't they have found a tire that was bad enough that it needed to be replaced? I have a few thousand hours in the CRJ and wasn't very happy this was left to the next crew as my experience is that bad tires are obvious. Post flight should be as thorough as pre-flight, aren't we are all on the same team?

The previous crew was probably on the return leg home. :D

At NWA we don't do post flight walk arounds. Perhaps they're not required at that particular regional?

When I flew for Air Wisconsin, nothing ****ed me off more than catching something broken on a preflight that should have been caught by even the most cursory of postflights (burnt out nav lights, broken static wicks, flatspotted tires or tires with cord showing, busted bonding straps, brake wear pins out of limits, etc).

Even in the rain, grab an effing umbrella and run around the plane - the next crew will thank you.

Maybe you dont have the full story. or maybe the second crew was going to an airport where the Captain decided they did not want an OK tire but a new tire. I have seen a tire that was technically OK but another crew member was going to land at an airport with heavy snow forcast... always two sides to a story. Lets not bash the PIC of either flight unless we were there (not in the terminal but in the decision making proccess)

Maybe the tire had a slow leak

What NWA is that? Some other NWA's do.

Fedex pilots don't do post flights, the mechanics do. Usually looking at the plane before we get off it.

Company policy is to do a post flight walk-around after everyflight.

But, out on the line, if a flight is coming in, and the next crew is already down on the ramp, that crew get's the pre-flight, which then covers the current crew's post-flight. At least that's the gentleman's (and gentlewoman's) agreement at my company.

But, who knows about this situation.

Sometimes it just depends on the point of view. A tire may look low to one pilot and fine to another pilot. I could think of a few reasons for that could have caused this situation.