Justin, it's not clear to me whether the actions are "or" or "and". For example if my water ballast gear is unserviceable, do I need to label the lever and have it locked by a Form 2 inspector, or just choose one action?
Regards Ben On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Justin Couch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hands up how many of you fly PZL aircraft? > > Put your hand down if you have a T&B fitted. > > Hmmm... no change in raised hands. > > OK, how many of you know that your aircraft has been technically illegally > flying in Australia the whole time? > > Ahh..... no hands up. > > Yeah, so... my club got audited last Christmas, and they were thorough! > Grabbed the TCDS for our Jantar and low and behold, the T&B is listed as > part of the minimum equipment list - thus a mandatory instrument for that > type. We went back through the history of our glider (IZU) and all the > sister ships that came in that batch for the Benalla worlds - none ever > arrived in the country with one. Then we looked at other PZL gliders that > we could find (Juniors, Puchacz etc). All have the T&B listed, except for > the 55. Uh oh.... > > That put the GFA in a tight spot as technically we cannot alter the > minimum equipment lists required for type certification when we accept them > from another country. And we have plenty of 30 year old Jantars that have > been through a Form 2 every single year and never been pulled up on that > (not to mention newer and older PZL aircraft all in the same boat). > Thankfully we have a couple of guys up there that not only know the rules, > but found some creative phrasing to put us all back in the good books with > CASA for a clearly ridiculous situation. A yaw string is now an acceptable > substitute for a T&B in your glider as part of the MEL :) > > Read another way - if your yaw string comes off in mid flight, you're now > flying an "experimental" aircraft. Weeeeee! > > So, a new PU list has come out today that gets us out of the legal problem > of not meeting the minimum equipment list. > > > http://doc.glidingaustralia.org/index.php?option=com_docman&view=list&slug=schedule-of-permissible-unserviceabilities&Itemid=101&layout=treetable > > Also clarifies that you are allowed to disconnect the CG release and not > have to perform AD177 on it if you only ever aerotow. There's a few other > minor tweaks in there. > > As the last person to sign off the Form 2 for this aircraft before the > audit, this whole episode was rather interesting to me for many different > reasons, particularly watching the internals of the GFA airworthiness > system have a collective Oh Shit moment as we dug into it. Learnt a lot - > and thankfully still have my inspector rating! > > Anyway, enjoy flying your now legal PZL aircraft! :P > > -- > Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/ > Java 3D Graphics Information http://www.j3d.org/ > LinkedIn http://au.linkedin.com/in/justincouch/ > G+ WetMorgoth > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Look through the lens, and the light breaks down into many lights. > Turn it or move it, and a new set of arrangements appears... is it > a single light or many lights, lights that one must know how to > distinguish, recognise and appreciate? Is it one light with many > frames or one frame for many lights?" -Subcomandante Marcos > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring >
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