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How to Avoid Being Grounded.
I pulled my plane over to the wash stand to lose the fly squash this evening. It was a little harder than I expected, to pull the 20 yards or so. So I used a gas bottle to fill the tires, and put the bottle in the cockpit while I pulled it back to the hangar. That's when I noticed the problem. No Registration card. I know it had slipped out of its aluminum mounting clip once or twice. But now it was gone. It is a 'Required for Flight' item, as you know. Registration, Airworthiness, POH - accessible or on view. A pilot certificate and medical in your wallet. So I started worrying about how long the FAA would take to respond with a temporary letter. Then I looked at my flight bag in the car. There it was. Where I had placed it when it slipped out of its holder. That's when I decided to get sensible, and find a more secure holder on the cabin side wall. My wife came up with a plastic-adhesive-back, see-through-front envelope such as you place on parcels. That won't come loose any time soon. But the registration can be pulled for examination, if necessary. Thank Goodness! Brian W |
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betwys1 writes:
That's when I noticed the problem. No Registration card. I know it had slipped out of its aluminum mounting clip once or twice. But now it was gone. It is a 'Required for Flight' item, as you know. I have this picture of Dan Aykroyd aka Joe Friday pulling alongside in that T-38 with the LAPD marking and the red light on the glareshield... and waving Brian to the curb.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/smartjunco/4360494729/ -- A host is a host from coast to & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |
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On 7/7/2010 12:47 AM, David Lesher wrote:
writes: That's when I noticed the problem. No Registration card. I know it had slipped out of its aluminum mounting clip once or twice. But now it was gone. It is a 'Required for Flight' item, as you know. I have this picture of Dan Aykroyd aka Joe Friday pulling alongside in that T-38 with the LAPD marking and the red light on the glareshield... and waving Brian to the curb.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/smartjunco/4360494729/ Amusing... Brian W |
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On Jul 6, 5:12*pm, betwys1 wrote:
I pulled my plane over to the wash stand to lose the fly squash this evening. * It was a little harder than I expected, to pull the 20 yards or so. So I used a gas bottle to fill the tires, and put the bottle in the cockpit while I pulled it back to the hangar. That's when I noticed the problem. * No Registration card. I know it had slipped out of its aluminum mounting clip once or twice. * But now it was gone. It is a 'Required for Flight' item, as you know. Registration, Airworthiness, POH - accessible or on view. A pilot certificate and medical in your wallet. So I started worrying about how long the FAA would take to respond with a temporary letter. Then I looked at my flight bag in the car. There it was. Where I had placed it when it slipped out of its holder. * That's when I decided to get sensible, and find a more secure holder on the cabin side wall. My wife came up with a plastic-adhesive-back, see-through-front envelope such as you place on parcels. That won't come loose any time soon. * But the registration can be pulled for examination, if necessary. Thank Goodness! Brian W Does anyone else find it amusing how worried everyone is about violating a silly and pointless rule? We are all told on our first day of flight school that something terrible is going to happen if the "ARROW" items are somehow misplaced? For starters, the second R - Radio License - somehow stopped being sacred a long time ago! Is there really anyone on the planet who thinks that if the Airworthiness Certificate of a 1980 Cessna 172 is somehow missing, that the plane was not certified at the factory 30 years ago? Similarly, are you going to fall out of the sky if you forgot to pay your Registration? or pitch out of control if the W&B card is missing, even though nothing heavier than a flight bag has moved more than a few inches over the life of the airplane? The only really critical item is the owner's manual, and that is only because it contains the checklists. Now, please, don't get me wrong, this is no critique of Brian W or anyone else who is conscientious about the details of being a pilot. I Just think we should worry about staying safe and doing the right thing (whether or not someone from the FAA may catch us), rather than simply obeying arbitrary rules. Bob A. -- private pilot of a 172. |
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How to Avoid Being Grounded.
Bob wrote, with regard to the FAA requirement to have the airworthiness
certificate on display, "Does anyone else find it amusing how worried everyone is about violating a silly and pointless rule?" No, Bob. You are the only one. g If "silly and pointless" rules were eliminated, the Code of Federal Regulations would be ten pages, instead of the 100,000 pages it is now (and growing). Jon |
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On 7/8/2010 12:26 PM, Jon Woellhaf wrote:
Bob wrote, with regard to the FAA requirement to have the airworthiness certificate on display, "Does anyone else find it amusing how worried everyone is about violating a silly and pointless rule?" No, Bob. You are the only one.g If "silly and pointless" rules were eliminated, the Code of Federal Regulations would be ten pages, instead of the 100,000 pages it is now (and growing). Jon Ha! The LAST silly little regulation from the FAA (upgrade paper to plastic certificates) - cost me around $1000 to fix up - and meant flying a license from scratch. Brian W |
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On 7/8/2010 9:10 PM, Stephen! wrote:
wrote in : Ha! The LAST silly little regulation from the FAA (upgrade paper to plastic certificates) - cost me around $1000 to fix up - and meant flying a license from scratch. Do tell... I wasn't paying attention to new FAA regs until I bought a plane last year. By January last, I realised that 1) The FAA was updating easily forged paper certificates to plastic security enhanced pilot certificates. 2) Last valid date of old paper certificates March 2010 3) I was ineligible for a $2 upgrade because my FAA license was on the basis of a British license flown many years earlier. 4) The FAA required CAA verification of the UK license. 5) This procedure would take more time than was left. AND worst of all.... 6) My UK medical was not current (though my US medical WAS) so I might need a trip just to get a UK medical Ho hum... I bit the bullet, found a pilot examiner in nearby TexaS flew the refresher hours, flew the test, wrote the pilot ground test. $1000. Bingo! Brian W |
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On Jul 8, 12:43*pm, Bob wrote:
On Jul 6, 5:12*pm, betwys1 wrote: I pulled my plane over to the wash stand to lose the fly squash this evening. * It was a little harder than I expected, to pull the 20 yards or so. So I used a gas bottle to fill the tires, and put the bottle in the cockpit while I pulled it back to the hangar. That's when I noticed the problem. * No Registration card. I know it had slipped out of its aluminum mounting clip once or twice. * But now it was gone. It is a 'Required for Flight' item, as you know. Registration, Airworthiness, POH - accessible or on view. A pilot certificate and medical in your wallet. So I started worrying about how long the FAA would take to respond with a temporary letter. Then I looked at my flight bag in the car. There it was. Where I had placed it when it slipped out of its holder. * That's when I decided to get sensible, and find a more secure holder on the cabin side wall. My wife came up with a plastic-adhesive-back, see-through-front envelope such as you place on parcels. That won't come loose any time soon. * But the registration can be pulled for examination, if necessary. Thank Goodness! Brian W Does anyone else find it amusing how worried everyone is about violating a silly and pointless rule? We are all told on our first day of flight school that something terrible is going to happen if the "ARROW" items are somehow misplaced? For starters, the second R - Radio License - somehow stopped being sacred a long time ago! Is there really anyone on the planet who thinks that if the Airworthiness Certificate of a 1980 Cessna 172 is somehow missing, that the plane was not certified at the factory 30 years ago? Similarly, are you going to fall out of the sky if you forgot to pay your Registration? or pitch out of control if the W&B card is missing, even though nothing heavier than a flight bag has moved more than a few inches over the life of the airplane? The only really critical item is the owner's manual, and that is only because it contains the checklists. Now, please, don't get me wrong, this is no critique of Brian W or anyone else who is conscientious about the details of being a pilot. I Just think we should worry about staying safe and doing the right thing (wher or not someone from the FAA may catch us), rather than simply obeying arbitrary rules. Bob A. -- *private pilot of a 172. We have this silly notion that actions should 'add value' to the endeavor. That's how people who work for me keep their jobs and if the value they add exceeds the costs as I measure them they get rewarded. . Somehow the notion of adding value seems to be missing at the regulatory level. The stock guy moving a can from a box to a shelf in the supermarket is adding value, he is putting the can where we can get it. Some federal regulations add value, but the other 95% of them are giving the rest a bad name. I did not add much value to this thread -- sorry. |
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How to Avoid Being Grounded.
On 7/8/2010 2:14 PM, a wrote:
We have this silly notion that actions should 'add value' to the endeavor. That's how people who work for me keep their jobs and if the value they add exceeds the costs as I measure them they get rewarded. . Somehow the notion of adding value seems to be missing at the regulatory level. The stock guy moving a can from a box to a shelf in the supermarket is adding value, he is putting the can where we can get it. Some federal regulations add value, but the other 95% of them are giving the rest a bad name. I did not add much value to this thread -- sorry. I understand this position. And taking the big view, if enterprises are allowed to take risks unregulated, all that happens is that the tax payer gets a bill for $7 billion dollars, and peoples' retirement drops in the can. The dollar loses value, big time. No problem. But if flight goes unregulated, people die outright, and we get upset. So we sit still for REAL regulation of flight. Brian W |
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How to Avoid Being Grounded.
Thanks! You have no idea how happy I am that I am not the only one who
finds this insane. -Bob A. |
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