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Per AOPA ePilot (Vol. 4 issue 51):
"...FAA sources...alerted...AOPA to...pending AD revision intended to stop
fuel leaks on various Lycoming engines. ...AD 2002-26-01, signed earlier
this week, will be published in the Federal Register...requires inspection
of fuel lines and clamps for proper installation at annual or 100-hour
intervals, and whenever they're removed for maintenance."
Taking the blurb at apparent "face value", the following came to mind:
1. How are Continentals different from Lycomings in hazard potential?
2. Does the FAA think aviation now needs regulations or ADs requiring:
a. common sense?
b. preflight safety inspections?
c. that A&P's and IA's accomplish their work without human error?
3. What does such an AD requirement say as to the FAA's overall
confidence
in the ability of the FAA-certified technicians uncertified owners
must
employ no less than annually?
4. Did Chicken Little became the five-hundred pound canary (and get a
government job)?
5. Is the author of this AD either FAA-certified pilot or mechanic?
6. Do such ADs diminish the credibility of a process supposedly intended
to
make pilots and/or mechanics aware of UNUSUAL potential hazards to
safe
flight that timely action would reduce or eliminate?
What'cha think, guys & gals?
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