> The motor has not been used for several days, so the main issue is
> "Does oil wick up the dipstick and give you a false reading?".
I think a more relevant question is : How do you know for a gold-plated fact
that the motor has not been turned over recently? Even a gust of wind could
possibly slosh oil around enough to give a false reading.
Are you willing to bet your life (and possibly others) on that ?
Checklists are mind-numbingly boring, but there's a reason for every item on
there. And someone, somewhere, sometime, has had to make a forced landing
because of not doing that one item...
Randall
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