On 23/04/2016 7:51 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote:
You might also have trouble RIGGING some gliders if the water ballast actuation system is locked in one position.
Fair enough complaint. I had a bit of a chat with Andrew today and expressed this sentiment. I believe the intent was to make sure that someone can conveniently ignore the placard, fill it up and fly. For private gliders not a problem at all, but club gliders definitely an issue. Quite a few DG300s, for example, running around in club fleets. My suggestion is to modify the wording to show the intent of preventing filling of the tanks - much more generic and can be solved in many different ways.
Instead we have to remove seat pans and involve Form 2 inspectors adding to the possible hazards of the whole operation as it is always possible to make errors during maintenance. Insanity prevails.
Bit of an overreaction there. Exactly when is this check performed? During the annual inspection of course, so all of this has happened anyway. It's not like you'll be doing tank testing every other week as part of the DI and then having to add a bit of lockwire or nut and bolt to disable.
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