Preflight saved my bacon.
The other day after having 3 or so great flights with my GP extra .40, i decided to go up again. Had my plane on the starting stand, fired it up, checked idle, ok thats good. Checked ailerons, ok those work. Checked rudder, ok great. Check elevator.... um hello, elevator, wake up.... If i had skipped that important control check and just took off i would have lost my plane. Even though 10 minutes before hand I was ripping up the sky, for some reason between landing and starting up, the keeper decided to jump off the rod and the rod was no longer connected to the servo. So remember everyone, just because your plane flew great the flight before, make sure you check all you can before you go up again, you never know!
sean