Preflight inspections are kind of like landings: a good one takes some practice. As students, we were trained to walk around the airplane with a formal checklist, perhaps with our thumb pointing to the task at hand, so we wouldn't miss anything. And in the rental/training environment, a methodical approach to preflight-ing what you're about to fly has a great deal of merit: You never know who flew it last, the airplane's condition afterward and what they broke until you look for yourself.
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