Too true Mike. But we do trust our maintenance people to do Form 2s and all sorts of other work. If you don't trust the Maintenance Release why would you fly the glider?
Roger Browne -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Cleaver Sent: 13 March 2005 11:04 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] Iranian - was public display At 22:39 13/03/2005, you wrote: >Yes, but any pilot should check the loading placard, which must be current, >otherwise the glider is un-airworthy and should be grounded. > >Roger Browne Hi Roger ..but if the placard is wrong, how is the next pilot able to tell this????????????????????????????????????????? (It depends on the people who make changes to equipment recording and calculating the new weight and CG range, and entering it in the maintenance records - if this is not done "We'll all be rooned".) Wombat P.S. a general rule is that any change greater than 0.5% of MAUW is a trigger for a re-weigh . _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
