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Preflighting my plane - Video
Today's flight, figured to video how I preflight my plane. Comments
here or on the video most welcomed. Always nice to hear input to make me a safer pilot! Preflighting an airplane Part 1 Walking to the airplane - Preflight inside the cockpit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jnz8ikkAlA Preflighting an airplane Part 2 Preflighting the airplane walk around. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAhF-x1kvpQ Preflighting an airplane Part 3 Inside the plane after preflight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4mkhUFHWa0 |
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On Sep 19, 3:28*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
One, as you walk around, stand back every so often and look at the airframe. You're looking for wrinkles in the skin or anything else that might look strange. Definately good one for the checklist. Never thought of this and while I always step back after doing the entire check list for a last once over (long video - part 2, you will see me do this at the very end) I never thought about skin wrinkles. mounting holes and such, and perhaps more importantly, it will get any fuel that might be hiding in the fuel tank away from the sump out of it's depression and into the sump. Not quite sure I understand the above?? Obviously has something to do with the sump jiggies, and mine are "spring loaded" and pressed in using the outer edge of the fuel sump diddy rather then a center piece like a Cessna. Does the style of sump make any difference? |
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: On Sep 19, 3:28*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: One, as you walk around, stand back every so often and look at the airframe. You're looking for wrinkles in the skin or anything else that might look strange. Definately good one for the checklist. Never thought of this and while I always step back after doing the entire check list for a last once over (long video - part 2, you will see me do this at the very end) I never thought about skin wrinkles. mounting holes and such, and perhaps more importantly, it will get any fu el that might be hiding in the fuel tank away from the sump out of it's depression and into the sump. Not quite sure I understand the above?? Obviously has something to do with the sump jiggies, and mine are "spring loaded" and pressed in using the outer edge of the fuel sump diddy rather then a center piece like a Cessna. Does the style of sump make any difference? No, nothing to do with the sump drains themselves. The sump area is a small depession at the bottom of the tank. All water in the tank should go there by design. However most tanks have small imperfections in them where water can get into and stick there. You do a nice calm walkaround and drain your fuel and then when you start taxying, the water becomes dislodged and gets into a feed port. With some designs, this can add up to a lot of water... Bertie |
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Preflighting my plane - Video
On Sep 19, 3:47*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
No, nothing to do with the sump drains themselves. The sump area is a small depession at the bottom of the tank. All water in the tank should go there by design. However most tanks have small imperfections in them where water can get into and stick there. You do a nice calm walkaround and drain your fuel and then when you start taxying, the water becomes dislodged and gets into a feed port. With some designs, this can add up to a lot of water... Gotchya, gotchya and gotchya, never thought of what you say, and makes perfect sense. Tanks I have are "stainless steel" and not bladders, so I **think**I have a lesser risk of water settling where it shouldn't be but like you say, a good shake would be prudent to better assure the water indeed does settle down to the sumps so it gets sumped out. |
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On Sep 20, 1:11*am, Gezellig wrote:
I look and feel for these. What about places you can't either touch or see? Heh heh, you do more then I did regarding looking for the wrinkling of the skin as I never thought about it until Bertie brought it up, soooo, you probably will have to "trust" what you don't see, don't hurt. Getting some good stuff out of this latest video to add to my "tool kit" of being a safer pilot from here and a couple other forums I shared the video with. |
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Gezellig wrote in news:6jjih3F3lpbtU1
@mid.individual.net: On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:43:00 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On Sep 19, 3:28*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: One, as you walk around, stand back every so often and look at the airframe. You're looking for wrinkles in the skin or anything else that might look strange. Definately good one for the checklist. Never thought of this and while I always step back after doing the entire check list for a last once over (long video - part 2, you will see me do this at the very end) I never thought about skin wrinkles. I look and feel for these. What about places you can't either touch or see? Well, you can only do so much, but damage from a hard landing will usually give some sort of sign on the outside. Bertie |
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message ... | Gezellig wrote in news:6jjih3F3lpbtU1 | @mid.individual.net: | | On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:43:00 -0700 (PDT), wrote: | | On Sep 19, 3:28 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: | | One, as you walk around, stand back every so often and look at the | airframe. You're looking for wrinkles in the skin or anything else that | might look strange. | | Definately good one for the checklist. Never thought of this and | while I always step back after doing the entire check list for a last | once over (long video - part 2, you will see me do this at the very | end) I never thought about skin wrinkles. | | I look and feel for these. What about places you can't either touch or | see? | | | Well, you can only do so much, but damage from a hard landing will usually | give some sort of sign on the outside. | | | Bertie | |
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