Ohh yes, we still do walk arounds, and lots of other checks inside the **** as well. You would be amazed at some of the stuff we find that our mx. people over look. And some times we get into "discussions" about what is acceptable and what is not, when it comes to a grey area. Luckily the Captain is always right and we never have to take a plane we are not satisfied with. The same holds true for bad weather, as you can see by my experience last Friday in NYC. This has led to many flight cancellations and many pissed off passengers. You would be amazed at some of the idiots we have to deal with when it comes to cancelling a flight. I always tell them, "We can go with it -as is-, and maybe die, or we can wait a few hours for them to fix it and live, which would you prefer?" That usually shuts them up...usually, but not always.
Maybe this will get me in trouble but I think people are getting dumber by the minute. The quanitity of idiots in this world is amazing.
I think you should tell passengers that complain this "You go get all the training I have had, fly the number of hours I have then we will have the discussion about whether we should fly or not"
