Ben Jackson wrote:

What do you look for beyond a normal preflight when you're about to
go on a long trip?

Well, I wouldn't head across country if the annual was due and I thought it
likely that I'd get stranded several hundred miles away, but that's about it.
There's nothing critical about having to change the oil at 60 hours instead of
doing it at 50.

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.