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Dan208B said:
Seems like a good thing overall. I had to laugh, it says "reduces gear door extension speed to 153 knots." We have the inner gear doors and the extension speed is 153 already. Maybe I mis-understood.
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I'm curious about that one too....I extend at 150 with the inner doors also.
 
Bohemian sunset.
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jknight8907 said:
No, not yet. We're doing it piecemeal since we've got relatively low-time engines that aren't ready to go yet. Paint & interior about 8 years ago, the panel last year (By Mike Jones Aircraft, who does Colemill conversions), next will be the inner gear door removal STC, and maybe winglets. I'm not totally sold on the winglets yet.
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Why bother with removing the inner doors? If they're working, I'd leave them on there, especially if you're not flying to gravel and beating the snot out of the .
 
Roger Roger said:
Why bother with removing the inner doors? If they're working, I'd leave them on there, especially if you're not flying to gravel and beating the snot out of the .
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It just removes a lot of complexity and future failure points. There are a couple of sensors, uplocks, and actuators involved in the inner door operation, and they are known for causing problems eventually. We haven't had problems in a while, but before we found our current mechanic (Navajo expert) there were some teething problems getting it all right.
 
jknight8907 said:
It just removes a lot of complexity and future failure points. There are a couple of sensors, uplocks, and actuators involved in the inner door operation, and they are known for causing problems eventually. We haven't had problems in a while, but before we found our current mechanic (Navajo expert) there were some teething problems getting it all right.
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Oh I know about the inner doors...I guess maybe we just had better luck because I never thought that part of the system was particularly bad.
 
Dear FBO tug operator: you're an idiot. Turn limits are placarded for a reason, a $580+labor reason. Honestly I was surprised it was that 'cheap'.

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AeroTwin in Anchorage has a STC for the Navajo for the pin. I don't see it listed on their website anymore though, but worth a call to them. With a push of a button you can release the bolt and the two halves of the torque links separate and there is no more worry about the stop limits.
 
jknight8907 said:
Dear FBO tug operator: you're an idiot. Turn limits are placarded for a reason, a $580+labor reason. Honestly I was surprised it was that 'cheap'.

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That's how I lost my first job. After we found that the FBO tug has done this to my boss's Navajo, he decided to sell it on the spot (he'd had too much with that Navajo I guess?).

what goes around, comes around. 5 years later I came back with my Metro and trashed that FBO with my enormous machine, they didn't know were to put that tube "just don't destroy it like the last time, would ya?". Oh, vengance.
 
It's got a weird shadow from the sun, but it was a phone pic so....

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