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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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Preflighting my plane - Video
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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Preflighting my plane - Video
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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 19, 6:00*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
" wrote in news:7b0f558c-1f70-462f- : 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. Depends on the type, but tin tanks are no kind of insurance against it. Try it sometime. Drain some fuel, if there's some water, drain it all out and then shake the airplane. Pretty sure you;ll get some more. BTW, you're tanks are more than likely aluminum. I could be wrong, but I've never seen stainless tanks in any airplane. Bertie Big design flaw on the early M20J (Mooney 201) was the fuel tanks were wet wing, and the seam sealant failed. If one smells gas in flight it is NOT good, and we did. Huge pain in the ass to reseal. The other thing about those tanks is the fuel caps were a little tricky to put back right (this was back in the old days when the fuel truck would come to the airplane) and if they were not put on right rain got in big time. Nothing like draining a tank in a rain storm while wearing a suit! It was a lot of years ago but I was at a meeting in Rochester NY, got to the airplane late, heavy rain, and got lots of water in the fuel because the fuel caps were not on right. I wrote a letter of complaint to the FBO, they kept it in mind and the next I I stopped there they fueled the airplane for free. I should have taken a rain check on the free refueling! BTW, preflight checks don't end when you start the engine. A couple of times in my couple of thousand hours I was approaching rotation speed and a last look at the panel showed something not quite right. You're not committed to the flight until there is not enough runway left to stop! I approach every takeoff with the expectation I'll have to about it, and every landing with the expectation I'll have to go around. That mind set makes it a LOT easier to make the safe decision when you have to. This advice is worth exactly what you paid for it! |
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Preflighting my plane - Video
a wrote in
: On Sep 19, 6:00*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: " wrote in news:7b0f558c-1f70-462f- : 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 shoul d go there by design. However most tanks have small imperfections in the m where water can get into and stick there. You do a nice calm walkaroun d 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 u p 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. Depends on the type, but tin tanks are no kind of insurance against it. T ry it sometime. Drain some fuel, if there's some water, drain it all out and then shake the airplane. Pretty sure you;ll get some more. BTW, you're tanks are more than likely aluminum. I could be wrong, but I' ve never seen stainless tanks in any airplane. Bertie Big design flaw on the early M20J (Mooney 201) was the fuel tanks were wet wing, and the seam sealant failed. If one smells gas in flight it is NOT good, and we did. Huge pain in the ass to reseal. The other thing about those tanks is the fuel caps were a little tricky to put back right (this was back in the old days when the fuel truck would come to the airplane) and if they were not put on right rain got in big time. Nothing like draining a tank in a rain storm while wearing a suit! Yeah, I know the caps you're talking about. They were a bitch to get on. I sem to remember a lot of Mooneys having bladders, though. Earlier ones maybe? Maybe wood wing airplanes? Bertie |
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Preflighting my plane - Video
On Sep 19, 5:00*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
" wrote in news:7b0f558c- epends on the type, but tin tanks are no kind of insurance against it. Try it sometime. Drain some fuel, if there's some water, drain it all out and then shake the airplane. Pretty sure you;ll get some more. BTW, you're tanks are more than likely aluminum. I could be wrong, but I've never seen stainless tanks in any airplane. Bertie Surprisingly, I can count on one hand getting water in the fuel and my bet how it got in there is my carelessness on taking the caps off after a rain and the residual rain underneath the lever sneaks into the tank. But I will give what you say above a try, nothing gain, nothing loss but the adventure. AND YES, you are right, it's aluminum and I knew that, why stainless steel came out of my keyboard is beyond my belief :-)) |
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Preflighting my plane - Video
On Sep 19, 7:40*pm, a wrote:
I approach every takeoff with the expectation I'll have to about it, and every landing with the expectation I'll have to go around. That mind set makes it a LOT easier to make the safe decision when you have to. I do the same :-) as well as set physical parameters that I expect certain things to happen. I.E wheels up by midfield or designated 1000 foot marker or abort, or if my wheels are not down by a certain point, go around. |
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