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List, I have been both a military and civilian mechanic, and I taught at an A&P school for a while. An airplane mechanic learns the Airframe, Powerplant and General subject areas. In the general subject areas they learn basic hardware and are taught a certain body of knowledge pertaining to materials and processes. Every bolt and nut on an aircraft has a proper torque value, and they are different when used in shear or tension loads. The civil aircraft mech has always been an engineer of sorts... he was expected to know certain things about hardware and metals and processes- even if they werent printed in the maintenance manual. There is a little spiral booklet called the "aviation mechanics standard handbook" and can be purchased from any of the suppliers for about 12 bucks. It is a condensed version of AC43.13. Several manufacturer's manuals I have used including Cessna, Erco, and Bellanca do not give torque values in their manuals, and the A&P should know where to find them. The change to this idea came because of military aircraft mechanics that were taught basic aircraft structures in a relatively short period of time (six weeks) and werent expected to have anything above a 4th grade reading level. EVERYTHING was spelled out for them, and all of the torque values and even how to install a cotter pin was printed for them (with BIG pictures) right on the page of the manual that they were working from. The biggest problem that I had teaching A&P school was with x-military guys who couldnt get over the fact that they had to go elsewhere to find a torque value for a bolt. Cessna manuals just say..."install the elevator in reverse manner from removal..." Maybe it's safer... I dont know jan z 415G __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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