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13 minutes ago, Jaba-who said:

That’s not the point Turbs. The inspection which I have done severally times now since the SB came out takes about 30 seconds. 
what is the problem is that if I forget to report to CASA that I did the inspection, and found nothing, then next time I go flying I have breached this AD and have committed a crime. 

Having worked for manufacturers all my life I know the frustration of having product failures of all types; 

• Intermittant failures where some products would fail
• Life cycle failures where every product would have a failure after a certain number of hours or distance
• Irregular failures where all products would fail, but at different times.

We will usually fix all problems we can find, but the frustrating thing is only a few customers ever tell us, and we have no means of knowing which of those three types of problem it is unless we get data in.

With life cycle failures, we can replace the suspect part at a regular service under the failure point, or we can call the product in and provide a loan while the faulty product is being replaced - sost the customer nothing.

Irregular failures are handled by stocking up on replacement parts and providing loan products

Intermittant failures are the most difficult because it's so difficult to diagnose what the cause is. 

Air Bags in cars are blown up by the blast from a charge of Ammonium Nitrate, the same material favoured by terrorists. Takata got something wrong in the engineering and metal fragments started killing people. The airbags in our cars were replaced by the dealers during routine service so it never cost us a cent. However maybe ten years after the event there are still about 30,000 Australians who will not bring their cars in for replacement air bags.

So in the automotive and transport industries we have this blind spot where we research as best we can from part of the population, but the rest don't find it necessary to tell us enough to make decisions in there interest.

In the aviation industry we have a Safety Authority which adds another layer and are given tools to compell people to provide this information.

How much safer is it to be able to look at reports from all the VH Jabirus and know that 0.6% have cracked at 4000 + hours, but 99.4 have not, That tells me that there is no reason for any owners to have to replace the tube under 4000 hours, and more research is required on the 0.6% before committing to replacement at 4000 hours.

Armed with feedback an Engineer has a much better chance of fixing the problem.

7 hours ago, Jaba-who said:

What???? 
No evidence of ANY and you even looked at some and there was no evidence of any but still saying “yeah there probably are quite a few cracked below the 4000 hours.  “
 

Someone will take this post and say “yeah, some guy on a forum said yep there’s quite a few of them so yeah CASA should be clamping down in bloody Jabirus again! “ 

Yes, RF this is just a routine CASA safety message, precautionary to the owners and doesn't imply every one is going to crack.

7 hours ago, Jaba-who said:

“2. Report the results of the inspection to CASA via the Defect Report System.”

 

It seems to me that once the inspection is done, then this AD requires me to report to CASA the outcome of the inspection, whether a crack is found or not. So every year, assuming no problem is found I still have to report to CASA and if I don’t then I am in breach the AD. I stand to be fined or have punitive action taken against me for not reporting that I have not got a problem. 
 

I’ve  never come across any AD in over 25 years of flying where I am required to report to CASA when there is nothing wrong with an aircraft. 
 

What’s going on here? 

Probably just CASA wanting to collect data with x number of zero cracking and Y number of cracking.  How long does the inspection take?

........castigatory for years and very difficult to deal with. They have a tendency to the left, and, for example, when builing a recreational aircraft, will always make the left wing slightly bigger. Despite the ridicule from other members, who often fit adhesive stickers "port" and "starboard" on their wings, there is no record of any of Castigated spinning in on the left turn to Final (often called by the non-catigated Finals, even though there's only one, except............

"...Quasmanians.   For a start they don't have............"

......suggestion that if lagging is fitted around the exhaust it doesn't heat the air as much, and flying is notably smoother but ...............

2 hours ago, RFguy said:

What do people do for labelling wiring stuff under the cowl for wiring ?

IE 200 deg C survival and meeting flammability tests ?

 

I see there are a few systems. None of which I already have.

The printing setup is quite special it seems , the most accessible being a print between Kapton (Polyiamide) 

 

Is there anything such as a Brother P-Touch high temperature  tape ?

-glen

Coloured autocable and a wiring diagramme.

.....are the most dangerous.

Haveashotatit said he he had decided to stay away from the air, and so avoid the problem, but the group followed Dipsheet who said fitting two extra gauges, which he had developed, solved the problem as long as you took out the AH and ............

......the flying school office as everyone stops preparing their flight plans in case they missed something very important; does CVOK mean there will be wing-clapping clouds enroute? and it doesn't specify where? Will they be on the coast, in the mountains or up...............

......Maitland was the cry, No one knew what it meant, but truckies flashed it on their CBs and within days Maitland was being used in every conversation. No one knew what it meant. Soon it was raised in Parliament at Question Time when......

A lot of good advice above; a couple more rules of thumb:

1. You never know when someone will need to come in with a truck or Forklift

2. If there are any trees around, roots will crack thin concrete, and if the ground is clay thin is temporary.

Having said that, the big difference bwteen concrete and compacted soil/gravel is that concrete provides a moisture evaporation barrier.

In a dirt floor shed everything made of steel develops a thin skin of powder rust; tools, shovels, parts and anything on the aircraft.

As the years go by everything develops a speckled appearance.

 .......a few minutes to obtain. Not many people know that towards the end of the 1940s the town of Grong Grong had a very forward thinking Chamber of Commerce. Located on the Newell Highway, they foresaw the Newell replacing the New England Highway in the future, so they built Atom Bomb Park to attract people to the town. This didn't fire becaise people drove the New England in case they got a dose of "Nucular Fallout",  so the Chamber renamed it Rocket Park, and built several giant concrete rockets. This would eventually got them a Big Rocket Award and the right to use "Big Rocket" to promote Grong Grong, but the committee felt that they couldn't start including plural names.

The Commitee pushed on and had a little rocket spun from aluminium and placed it on a pole as their logo.

All of that history had been forgotten as it usually is in Country towns and the current Chamber had renamed it "Earth Park" as an example of sustainability and a green future.  For some reason tourists weren't calling in any more, and all bull had to do was get that little rocket off the top of the 90 foot pole and he cold bolt it between his undercarriage legs and...........

.......something bigger than 3/5 litres and...........

........offfered to build a cat farm in Sichuan Province with local labour and a chain of Colonel diners for the tourists who would flock to see the beautiful lakes. The diners all had a photo of Colonel Sanders but there was no mention of product,so that would work out well. By a fluke, in Mandarin his promise was translated as "pussy and food"  and the region received 17 million booking the next day. This ..................

........rail car came slowly to a stop to the sound of a Chinese choir dressed in red jackets singing an Australian song in Mandarin:

"I been in cities that never close down

From New York to Rio and Old London Town

But no matter, how far or how wide I roam

I still call Australia home."

This was a master stroke by President Xi. They had built a copy of the Big typewriter for $48.95, railed it to Quondeng, and killed two birds with the one stone, on the one hand lifting the spirits of the Quondeng people by telling them this new computer was the biggest in the world and didn't need Elon Musk's Big Battery, and that the Australians had written a song about it, and this would repair relations. They of course didn't speak English so there was no risk there.

President XI had also flown the cream of Australia's Industry in, which included Turbo and Cappy and broadcast the ribbon cutting to the world, knowing that tears would come to Albo's eyes when he heard that song and that other guy would have to listen.

On the dais Chinese officials had lifted that old dead guy up beside President Xi to lend more weight to the occasion, but he didn't say anything.

The mood caught the audience too. A tear came to Turbo's eye when he saw the space where the missing key used to be, and he remembered bull's first post with that missing capital. He didn't remember the rest of the sentence though.

Th everyone's surprise, President Xi pulled of another coup by asking Cappy to speak. Cappy was ..................

.........Bone. In memory of the huge contribution bull and his typewriter had made to tourism over the years, (it was common now tow see one or two grey nomads in the caravans roll in to Bone, drive down to the "beach" turn around and drive out again) the townspeople raise enough money to build two Bell towers (shown in the above photo), and a ceremony was held to officially name them "bull's bells".

Someone suggested they be rung every time an aircraft [avref] took off from the airstrip, but more than half the Councillors baulked at that, instead deciding to name is "bull's Bowen International Airport Facility".

For the town of Bowen.......

10 hours ago, Downunder said:

Skippy has a long history of hijacking threads for.... commercial reasons.

And I'll note he's not a "First class  member", so not even donating to the site.

How about you take that back.

32 minutes ago, RFguy said:

as long as they are related to aviation ops, like.. building radios, and servicing avionics ....

Clever answer, but you need Industrial Zoning, so the starting point is to go onto the State website (Google Planning Schemes +NSW) punch the Cowra address in and there will be a property report showing what the Zone is. Look up the Zone definition and you will see all the Uses permitted without a Permit, and any Uses you migght be able to conduct after obtaining a permit.

Biggest loss around here was a group who paid 4.5 million for a site to build a Church and found Churches were prohibited on the site. Google is free.

....ground running for his 20 mile daily cross-country which he used to check all the water tanks.

The Mayor finally felt the pain; no one know what happened that day but within seconds the shearers were laid out on the polished concrete foyer floor.

And that's when the Sherry parties stopped, until.......

.....climb up the side of the quarter acre haystack, along the ridge and a slide down the straw, which ............

.......dash for freedom.

"What's wrong?" asked the Mayor who had spilled his sherry all over the town's most prolific gossip, Mrs Elford when he heard Mrs Mac's yells.

His mistake was not leaving it at that, and when he leaned over and looked down her ample cleavage she kicked him in the nuts; Mrs Mac had been to every BNS in the town over the years and knew exactly how to keep the Batchelors under control.

The Mayor's howl spilt fifteen more sherries, and a group of shearers, hearing Mrs Mac's cry for help jumped to the conclusion, aided by Mrs Elford's "He molested her" took the Mayor's teeth out and closed his eye up. What they didn't know was that the Mayor was the town's truck driver and regularly loaded a semi trailer full of bulls before breakfast, and..................

......the cleavage.

He had sharp claws, and the matron ripped.......

Turbo is up against it; Cappy left him the dreaded full stop, so first a couple of points about his Native claims.

Many years ago there was a smoking ceremony in Melbourne to mark the beginning of a great event. Today we know that the smoking ceremony was invented as a joke by Ernie Dingo, but then in the heady days of Native Title there was a huge gathering of bros with serious faces at the ceremony and for drinks afterwards. Turbo had been hired as a waiter, and out of curiosity as he picked up the drinks from these people he quietly took some DNA from each one. Of the 250 there, 293 were of British origin, four were descended from the Mayflower group in the USA, and the other three were Tories from monied English families.

The mention of a frill necked lizard brought tears to Turbo's eyes and made him remember the country tow he grew up in. At the time when a new movie came to town the Roxy Theatre would put on sherries and dress the foyer up and the country people would come in their best atture for pre-movie socialising. Turbo, at that stage 13 had noticed a beautiful dried floral arrangement in the foyer earlier in the day and hunted around out in the bush, brought in a frill necked lizard and put it on the dried arrangement. Of course the lizard sat stock still s they do, until old Mrs Mackintosh, who had a mouth like a sewer, stepped up to admire the arrangement and.......

Not surprising, since desert storage was pioneered in the US, low moisture issues.

.....nas will be full of people singing the jingle durig football matches and ...........................

[Turbo respectfully points out that "First Nations" is the name of the group of several indigenous Nations of native tribes in Canada whereas Australian aborigines were nomadic and didn't form Nations.]

...clearly has been having a good feed from Cappy's gin-soaked body.

This indicates that the NES has finally broken out again in the present tense where Turbo is putting the finishing touches on his latest project, an electric Jab, with the batteries coming from................