Act One of the comedy is doing all this for very little reason!
Form 2 comparison: In my experience most FAA Condition Inspections on
motorless EXP gliders have taken about three hours.
Jim
On 4/23/2016 3:06 AM, Justin Couch wrote:
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.
As Jim said, storm in a teacup.
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