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- Mon Dec 07, 2020 7:59 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: I Always Wondered About the Arrow Manual Gear Extension
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1680
Re: I Always Wondered About the Arrow Manual Gear Extension
The landing gear will freefall through a mechanically linked shuttle valve know as the "hoof valve". No electrics required for it to operate. The auto extend system was abolished by Piper after a dead stick landing when the gear kicked out and the airplane didn't make the airfield...they will not su...
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 10:31 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Flight Control Problem Could be the Autopilot
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2876
Re: Flight Control Problem Could be the Autopilot
In the aircraft I fly, when you put a certain control force against the autopilot commands, the autopilot will automatically disengage that axis as it generally means that you purposely want to do something else than what the autopilot is commanding. This design should be incorporated in every auto...
- Sat Jun 09, 2018 10:43 pm
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Air Inuit is looking for talent! – ***New salary scale***
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3075
Re: Air Inuit is looking for talent! – ***New salary scale***
Wow, top wage is roughly what I earned in 2008. And that was working on things much smaller than Boeings, living in a city far more affordable than Montreal. What kind of talent are you trying to attract?
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:59 pm
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Where AD compliance is difficult...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7965
Re: Where AD compliance is difficult...
NeverBlue, way to look like an ass. It's reassuring to see not only your knowledge, but also your sanity become questionable in a public forum. Kind of a shame you claim to be involved in an industry driven by safety, mental illness is no joking matter. Good employers have employee assistance progra...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:24 pm
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Checking Tach
- Replies: 200
- Views: 34619
Re: Checking Tach
http://www.proptach.com
Have had one of these in my toolbox for years, and check its accuracy every time I do a dynamic balance with a calibrated Chadwick Helmuth balancer. Have yet to see more than a 5 rpm difference from the calibrated optical pickup on the CH.
Have had one of these in my toolbox for years, and check its accuracy every time I do a dynamic balance with a calibrated Chadwick Helmuth balancer. Have yet to see more than a 5 rpm difference from the calibrated optical pickup on the CH.
- Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:57 pm
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Now I got accreditation from TC. What do I do with it?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6496
Re: Now I got accreditation from TC. What do I do with it?
Someone PLEASE hire this kid! Hasn't worked a day in aviation and already has the industry by the twig and berries! Sounds like about 80% of modern apprentices, all piss and vinegar with no skills or knowledge to back themselves up. Lead the way big shooter, we're all dying for you to show us what w...
- Mon Jun 22, 2015 12:00 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Now I got accreditation from TC. What do I do with it?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6496
Re: Now I got accreditation from TC. What do I do with it?
For those students who left aviation temporary, don't forget your goal, WE WILL COME BACK. Sweet...let's take our shirts off and bump chests! Airplanes are expensive. If you spend too much maintaining/fuelling/flying them, you get outbid on a contract every time, the industry is a race to the botto...
- Tue Apr 14, 2015 12:38 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Impact drivers (dewalt and the likes)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4773
Re: Impact drivers (dewalt and the likes)
Strega, I don't refer to myself as an "engineer", I refer to my profession as being an AME. For those unsure of what that is, I explain it to them. I have no shame in what I do for a living, I made a conscious decision to do it. People like you, that devalue what AMEs do every day lose respect withi...
- Sun Apr 12, 2015 1:18 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Impact drivers (dewalt and the likes)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4773
Re: Impact drivers (dewalt and the likes)
Why, oh why does anyone help Strega when it's painfully obvious his AME hating, holier than thou self is trolling a forum? Strega, head to Canadian Tire, buy your jobber impact, destroy your airplane so you can come back and complain about people wanting you to spend money for their knowledge and ex...
- Sun Dec 21, 2014 1:44 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Grease
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2129
Re: Grease
If the spec called for is mil-g-81322, I would use mobil grease 28, aeroshell 22 does not seem to react well with moisture and cold temps, it tends to dry up and get waxy once met with either cold or moisture. Or Mobil shc100 for wheel bearings, that stuff is awesome, but I am unsure what mil spec i...
- Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:30 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Alberta Government Fleet For Sale $11 million
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4962
Re: Alberta Government Fleet For Sale $11 million
Hopefully Saskatchewan will follow suit. Most unbelievably inefficient waste of tax payers money I have ever seen.
- Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:26 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Components
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4605
Re: Components
jay, I don't know everything and will be the first to admit that, it is a desirable trait in aviation. What I do know is I am an investor, I lend my money to help other people build business for the mutual gain of both parties. Others do the legwork, I provide the capital, I have no interest in star...
- Thu Dec 11, 2014 11:34 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Ice Pilots Back
- Replies: 141
- Views: 38754
Re: Ice Pilots Back
Anyone else notice the newbie last season who was a 'hotshot' pilot from bc, is now a mechanic there? Poor guy, probably got better pay, nicer hours, and more respect. Hotshot pilots unfortunately do not make good AMEs, their egos leave them in the dust. Hotshot AMEs turned pilots on the other hand...
- Thu Dec 11, 2014 11:24 pm
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Components
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4605
Re: Components
I'll just say what everyone else is thinking, and why you as a prospective entrepreneur have already failed. You want to cater to a market that you don't know exists. Pound some pavement, knock on some doors, find a market that suits your locale. You want to do JT15 components, great.....as long as ...
- Thu Nov 13, 2014 11:06 pm
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Help for TC powerplant exam.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4464
Re: Help for TC powerplant exam.
Study, and learn it for yourself. The industry is already saturated with apprentices that aren't interested. Or find a new career if you think the easy way is how to do this.
- Wed Aug 27, 2014 11:18 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: share what you make.
- Replies: 57
- Views: 8449
Re: share what you make.
The problem with your question is that it is too broad. A 200 hour Navajo F/O will make substantially less than a senior airline captain, and a freshly printed AME license will earn far less that the senior wrenches. The problem with aviation that sends everyone into a tailspin are the horrendously ...
- Wed Aug 27, 2014 12:14 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: BD5 Down in Provost Alberta, Pilot Deceased
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4107
Re: BD5 Down in Provost Alberta, Pilot Deceased
I remember about 10 years ago in YXE, they were trying to get that BD5 flying, endless problems with the Honda engine in it. After about a week of trials, they took the wings off, tossed in the back of a 3/4 ton and off it went. I always wondered what happened to the plane, and the gentleman who met...
- Thu May 01, 2014 3:20 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Owner qualified?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 8061
Re: Owner qualified?
I have learned to dismiss photofly's posts as another know-nothing-know-it-all. Just another pilot that thinks he is getting screwed over every time someone tries to cover their own hide, his earlier post in this thread proves. I once hangared 2 photo company C152s free of charge because the square ...
- Tue Apr 08, 2014 2:51 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Encore AME jobs
- Replies: 292
- Views: 77536
Re: Encore AME jobs
Neverblue rides a desk, defends low wages, has been in aviation 20+ years...come on you guys, every operator has Neverblues. They are the guys moved up to a desk because they are high risk, but long employed which looks good on a resume. Then the poor employer hires them and discovered they obviousl...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:11 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Strange B200 icing incident
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6818
Re: Strange B200 icing incident
What Captain X was referring to is the fact that the King Air does not have pneumatic deice indicator lights.