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No. It is a maintenance function. Back in the late 90's when I worked line service, we would drain the sumps on the airliners that overnighted at my airport, but only during the summer. Eventually that went away.

30 minutes.

On the 757/767 with a three man crew, probably 25 min. Two man crew, probably 35 min. A320, 15-20 min. Challenger 605, 15 min.

Could be worse, you could have been stuck behind a CAP airplane while waiting 30 min for them to do their before start checklist. Someone at my local self serve pump never re wound the hose or grounding wire. I had to pee really bad one time when I was coming back, and I parked in front of...

By preflight, do you mean walk around, or from dark jet to being ready for engine start?

That would be an odd requirement.

Are women allowed to join? I got invited to join the QB a while back. I respectfully declined. The owner of the FBO I worked for when I was a teenager would have QB parties. It was normally a bunch of old creepy guys looking at discount strippers.

Full radar power is pushing the throttles up till they hit the radar screen.

Full radar power

Hello, Selling my Brightline bag, in the B7 configuration, plus an additional bottle holder. Has some wear, but overall in good conidition. Asking $175 plus shipping.

Back when I was fueling airplanes, I was under the wing of a United 727 with its APU running (A very noisy place) and a FedEx 727 blew a tire on landing. It was loud enough that even with earplugs and a noisy APU behind me it made me jump.

Good on him for accepting responsibility, and maybe his story will lead to more opportunities for pilots with mental health issues to get help and not sacrifice their careers. Sounds like it already has.

Correct, just making the point that mistakes are made.

Big airlines never make stupid mistakes.... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/14/american-airlines-wrong-plane-hawaii-flight

Didn't look that closely.

They could also have been high mins, and the weather was worse than forecast.

I was in bed last night, and all of a sudden there was a tremendous amount of rain and wind. I had all the windows open because there was nothing in the forecast. After I ran around like a fool closing everything up, I decided to look at Foreflight to see how long it was going to last. The TAF...

I took every tram I could, and I still did 27,000 steps a day.

If you want a widebody airplane to sit in one spot for that long, it will probably be in the millions. They are in high demand these days and they are going to want to make up for the lost revenue.

Whatever you use, please don't use poison. Secondary poisoning is a real thing despite what all the poison companies say, and it kills the ultimate rodent removal machines, raptors.