RST Engineering wrote:

Macklin, with all due respects, since the largest thing you've flown would
fit into a 737 intake duct, why don't you just shut the f*** up and listen
to the people who have flown them.

One does not need to operate a piece of machinery in order to comment on it,
any more than one needs to be a politician to discuss politics. You will be
surprised that many of the NTSB investigators who will officially investigate
this accident haven't flown anything larger than an intake duct too.



I've wrenched on them for a few thousand hours and can explain how the
landing gear squat switch works, but I'm not about to do that since my last
honest tweak on them was some forty years ago.

Good for you.

If you don't have direct experience, bug OFF.

Sorry Jim, you don't have any authority to tell anyone to bug OFF. This is a
public newsgroup. If you don't like someone's opinion feel free to post your
own, but you're not going to stop others from posting here.

--Brian
727 Captain (retired).