Back in September of last year the FAA issued an AD encouraging owners to ditch their Ameri King ELTs. The FAA determined that the company was not manufacturing the ELTs up to standard and that the units were largely garbage…
Category: Fuselage
Fuel Leak Fix?
Saturday morning I got to the hangar early to take a look at the fuel leak. First I had to remove the vinyl from the wing skin And then remove all the rivets to get the skin off. It wasn’t…
More Odds and Ends
It is a four day weekend for me but that isn’t as useful as it sounds as the high temps are in the low 110s (low 40s for my metric cousins) and the hangar is close to 100 by 11am……
Safetyties and Taxiing
This week I got in touch with a San Diego-based inspector and received some documents to fill in and look over. It will take a while to go through the inspection checklist to see what I might not have done…
Finished*
Yesterday’s blog entry isn’t really complete because it doesn’t mention that prior to riveting I found that the doors still don’t fit. But I thought they did, I hear you say. Yes this fit until you put the rod on…