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by fixin
Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:40 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: bleed air failure
Replies: 6
Views: 2283

Re: bleed air failure

I have dealt with alot of eva tubing failures on the BE02 pm me with your specifics what lights are you getting, have you plumed in shop air and had a listinen for leaks?
by fixin
Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:10 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: C208B G1000 acu troubles
Replies: 9
Views: 3083

Re: C208B G1000 acu troubles

What leads you to beleive your Caravan is eating up ACU's. What Trouble Shooting have you done on the systems affected. Have you checked the alternator output against the generator output. The procedure is right in the book I cant remember the voltage split but it's in the book. You can check the Ge...
by fixin
Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:18 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Becoming A Pilot/AME
Replies: 8
Views: 2105

Re: Becoming A Pilot/AME

Honestly AME/commercial pilot doesnt work if you ask me. Concentrate on one or the other. To be a good AME or a commercial pilot you need to take your job seriously and only doing half of the year doesnt really work when your trying to figure it all out and in my past experience it doesnt work in th...
by fixin
Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:49 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: inspection questions
Replies: 12
Views: 1231

Re: inspection questions

Thanks for your replies guys. I see that this is a open table for discussion. My train of thought is that if the inspection is due at 14221 tat you can do that inspection any time before then it will just reset your inspection intervals your tolerance is there as a back up for busy times. Ad s can't...
by fixin
Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:17 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: inspection questions
Replies: 12
Views: 1231

inspection questions

I have read this form for years and now have a real question for all of the licensed engineers. Say you work for a company that operates. M1 category AC when an inspection is coming up do you get the airplane booked down for a day or two or are you slowy pick poking away at it when you get the AC be...
by fixin
Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:14 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: PT6 HSI FEELER GAUGEE
Replies: 7
Views: 967

PT6 HSI FEELER GAUGEE

JUST WONDERING IF ANY KNOWS WHERE A GUY CAN PURCHASE A DECENT SET OF LONG FEELER GAUGES THAT WOULD WORK WELL FOR CT TIP CLEARACES ON PT6-27/28
by fixin
Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:57 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Pix From a Swamper - Remembering Craig Chenell
Replies: 2153
Views: 677077

Re: Pic from a swamper

C-FASG IT'S BEEN OPERATED BY AIR TINDI FOR A YR OR 2
by fixin
Mon May 14, 2007 9:26 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Vans RV 9 Homebuilt
Replies: 1
Views: 699

Vans RV 9 Homebuilt

Just wondering if anyone here has built or worked on the RV 9, A family freind has decided to buy the kit as a retirment gig and has more money then brains sometimes and with me being in the industry has been picking my brain on everything about it. If any has some experience with this machine and w...
by fixin
Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:21 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Caravan De-Ice Kit
Replies: 1
Views: 810

Caravan's

We just finished installing our first de-ice kit on 1 of our 3 Caravans. You can expect this job to take about 3 to 4 days. There is a little sheet metal work to be done but the bulk of the work will be the related wiring. The kit has rather easy instructions to follow but as for that pod boot not o...
by fixin
Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:09 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Quick Drain Valves
Replies: 12
Views: 2404

Fuel Lube

You can buy a product called fuel lube it comes in a blue can and it's sticky as shit I use it on gaskets for boost pumps, fuel probes and all of the related components in the fuel systems of our A/C but once again I would not not recommend doing this job on your own. Fuel systems are a rather impor...
by fixin
Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:33 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Tips of the trade for new apprentices??
Replies: 17
Views: 3945

If you want to seem like an asset to your company learn how to keep busy at your place of work with out having to be asked to do every little thing all day long by your crew cheif. There are a million things to do around a hanger that need very little supervision for a green apprenti after they have...
by fixin
Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:57 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Breaking Tools
Replies: 11
Views: 2557

Breaking Tools

After spending 4hrs this afternoon with one retarded store owner and then playing telephone tag with customer service I finally got a straight exchange on my 1/4 drive ratchet. Its F*$#ING amazing how cheap some of these tool reatailers are. This store owner said he would do warrenty for me but He w...
by fixin
Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:27 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Air Tindi ?
Replies: 12
Views: 4881

Yellowknife

If your looking for info on Yellowknife drop me a PM with your questions. I'am pretty fresh out of school and been in Yellowknife for awhile now and love it. There are opurtunities for people with ambition up here!! :!:
by fixin
Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:43 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: "hard" time at work
Replies: 6
Views: 2561

Good One

So an engineer is always watching there apprentices, thats a good one. Where I come from there are more apprentices then engineers. We all watch out for each other but our engineers dont have the time to watch the apprentices every move. :?:

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