preflighting
Aircraft readiness verification
Preflighting is checking something systematically before it goes into action.
Pilots preflight aircraft before takeoff, inspecting controls, fuel, and instruments.
In printing and publishing, preflighting examines digital files for errors before production: The designer ran a preflight check on the PDF.
The term extends to any careful pre-launch inspection.
Itemized verification guide
- verificationProving something accurate
- examinationMethodical assessment or review
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
- evaluationDetermining worth or quality
testing · review · scrutiny · analysis · audit · measurement · observation · quality
Itemized verification guide
- cockpitPilot's control compartment
- airspaceRegulated overhead flight zone
- ATCAviation traffic service
- runwayPaved path for planes
taxiway · pilot · aircraft · navigation · altimeter · airspeed · transponder · walkthrough
Removal from danger
- proceduresSet methods for tasks
- protocolsEstablished codes of conduct
- hazardSource of potential harm
- riskPossibility of harm
seatbelt · oxygen · exits · briefing · precaution · flotation
Demonstration of truth
imposition · trapping · overprint · pagination · PDF · export · fonts · resolution
checklist
Itemized verification guide
- verificationProving something accurate
- examinationMethodical assessment or review
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
evaluation · testing · review · scrutiny · analysis · audit · measurement · observation · quality · standards
checklist
Itemized verification guide
runway · taxiway · pilot · aircraft · navigation · altimeter · airspeed · transponder · walkthrough · avionics
evacuation
Removal from danger
- proceduresSet methods for tasks
- protocolsEstablished codes of conduct
- hazardSource of potential harm
risk · seatbelt · oxygen · exits · briefing · precaution · flotation
proof
Demonstration of truth
spine · imposition · trapping · overprint · pagination · PDF · export · fonts · resolution · packaging
preflightingdebriefing
Questioning following an operation
after-action review · retrospective · postmortem · post-mortem
preflightingflying
Moving through air
operating · executing · launching · taking off · running
flight, flying, flights, flighty, flightless, flightiness, preflight, preflights