GD – what do you make of this – 'Thing'
As much as it galls me to actually be impelled to quote a post on the UP; I may have to – unless, perhaps - I can find another way to debunk it. I shall try. Let’s see. Uhmm?
OK. Once in the dim and distant past (two decades) it was my privilege and absolute pleasure to fly for a well known RPT Be20 operation. That operation flew about 250,000 (guesstimate) hours of scheduled services using the peerless 200 . The company was ‘top notch’, the Check and Training ferocious; the SOP cast in stone, reinforced by Senior pilots and C&T. There was a roller blind checklist (fully approved) which flowed through the entire flight operation. It was much easier and much more efficient to follow the check list and SOP than anything else. I was but a ‘pup’ – (10,000 hours multi command), under the IFR and I had much to learn. I have kept a ‘record’, a diary if you will, of all the reported anomalies I; or; other pilots experienced, for no other reason than a desire to learn and understand the aircraft and the operation. That diary, to this very day has provided insight into training. There are some pretty intricate, tricky, bloody awkward, ‘unusual’ puzzles there, which clever pilots managed and good engineers nutted and sorted out.
But never, not once – not on the whole world wide web- can I find anyone who has recorded a trim wheel grub screw becoming detached, rendering the position of the rudder trim ‘knob’ as not referring to the position of the actual rudder. Not a one. The reason for this is simple; there is a ‘detent’ within the circular hole the trim wheel sits on; a flat section which (rather neatly) fits the half moon shape of the spindle. Same as the knob on the car radio – get it….
Old mate the HVH is getting desperate now. He must have some Wally on the UP actually saying ‘his’ trim wheel not only fell off – but had other crew tricked into believing the position indicted was wrong? WTD – BOLLOCKS – Prove it = paperwork + crew reports+ engineering reports + Beechcraft AD+ all the associated hoopla attending. Absolute crap, totally amatuerish, un provable, ridiculous, puerile bull-sheee-it.
The Hood hold over the government – lest he sing his sorry Pel-Air song is well past it’s use by date and now, very much on the nose. Bring back our real ATSB – or: close it down. Industry has little use for the current diorama, drama, faery tales or horse pooh. It is becoming ridiculous; not to mention embarrassing.
Aggh – Can’t be bothered to elaborate this much further. NO. I shall have another Ale and put the dribbling’s of fools out of my mind. Make of it what you will.
As much as it galls me to actually be impelled to quote a post on the UP; I may have to – unless, perhaps - I can find another way to debunk it. I shall try. Let’s see. Uhmm?
OK. Once in the dim and distant past (two decades) it was my privilege and absolute pleasure to fly for a well known RPT Be20 operation. That operation flew about 250,000 (guesstimate) hours of scheduled services using the peerless 200 . The company was ‘top notch’, the Check and Training ferocious; the SOP cast in stone, reinforced by Senior pilots and C&T. There was a roller blind checklist (fully approved) which flowed through the entire flight operation. It was much easier and much more efficient to follow the check list and SOP than anything else. I was but a ‘pup’ – (10,000 hours multi command), under the IFR and I had much to learn. I have kept a ‘record’, a diary if you will, of all the reported anomalies I; or; other pilots experienced, for no other reason than a desire to learn and understand the aircraft and the operation. That diary, to this very day has provided insight into training. There are some pretty intricate, tricky, bloody awkward, ‘unusual’ puzzles there, which clever pilots managed and good engineers nutted and sorted out.
But never, not once – not on the whole world wide web- can I find anyone who has recorded a trim wheel grub screw becoming detached, rendering the position of the rudder trim ‘knob’ as not referring to the position of the actual rudder. Not a one. The reason for this is simple; there is a ‘detent’ within the circular hole the trim wheel sits on; a flat section which (rather neatly) fits the half moon shape of the spindle. Same as the knob on the car radio – get it….
Old mate the HVH is getting desperate now. He must have some Wally on the UP actually saying ‘his’ trim wheel not only fell off – but had other crew tricked into believing the position indicted was wrong? WTD – BOLLOCKS – Prove it = paperwork + crew reports+ engineering reports + Beechcraft AD+ all the associated hoopla attending. Absolute crap, totally amatuerish, un provable, ridiculous, puerile bull-sheee-it.
The Hood hold over the government – lest he sing his sorry Pel-Air song is well past it’s use by date and now, very much on the nose. Bring back our real ATSB – or: close it down. Industry has little use for the current diorama, drama, faery tales or horse pooh. It is becoming ridiculous; not to mention embarrassing.
Aggh – Can’t be bothered to elaborate this much further. NO. I shall have another Ale and put the dribbling’s of fools out of my mind. Make of it what you will.