Yep, Looks like Bill's server is down right now. I'm sure he'll poke his head in here before too long. I know he's been neck deep in alligators at work lately!!! But he'll hook us all up as soon as he can!!!!

I've seen a lot of pilots like the one you described, I think every field has at least one or two of them. Unfortunately even providing a checklist doesn't help some of them. I've seen pilots that have been flying for 10 years act this way. It's not that he didn't know what to check, he simply didn't check his plane out. There's not much you can do about those that won't to maintenance on their own planes. About the only thing that will get them change is when they get tired of paying for crashed planes.

Ken