Mokulele Caravan lands on Maui Highway

No problem! Obviously I'm somewhat the same way with writing, especially in a published article or something like that. I didn't want to admit it at first (in case we were preparing for internet war here, lol) but I actually found your post really funny. "God help you if your mom is banging numerous postmen" hahaha. Fantastic write up, my good sir! :biggrin:
 
Itchy said:
Story time? Is this like the Delta FO that just shut em down on departure on left coast a couple decades ago?
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There was a guy that decided to pull both T-handles in flight in a BE-99. When he noticed what he did he pushed them both back in which caused both engines to be torched. Was lucky to get one of them running again.

He decided to do his Friday Checks in the air for some reason.
 
the compressor turbine hub was observed to have a "frosted" appearance, consistent with glass blasting. Glass-like beads and fragments were also found, "consistent with the disc assembly having been cleaned by glass media blasting in the assembled condition."

...does that mean what I think it does?!
 
bimmerphile said:
the compressor turbine hub was observed to have a "frosted" appearance, consistent with glass blasting. Glass-like beads and fragments were also found, "consistent with the disc assembly having been cleaned by glass media blasting in the assembled condition."

...does that mean what I think it does?!
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What do you think it means?
 
bimmerphile said:
the compressor turbine hub was observed to have a "frosted" appearance, consistent with glass blasting. Glass-like beads and fragments were also found, "consistent with the disc assembly having been cleaned by glass media blasting in the assembled condition."

...does that mean what I think it does?!
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If you think it means techniques not consistent with the appropriate manual, then yes I think it means what you mean.


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bimmerphile said:
They just pulled the whole thing out, blasted it, and put it back in without taking it apart?
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More like the engine was sent to Southwest Airmotive in Arizona, they did an HSI along with a fair bit of other heavy PT6 maintenance, but yeah, the glass blasting was done improperly by the engine shop.
 
RedBaron2000 said:
More like the engine was sent to Southwest Airmotive in Arizona, they did an HSI along with a fair bit of other heavy PT6 maintenance, but yeah, the glass blasting was done improperly by the engine shop.
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That's what I took away from that. There will probably be an AD coming soon that applies to PT6s serviced by that shop.

Such as the this one, against a propeller station.

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_G...fa852745862576880052b60a/$FILE/2005-14-11.pdf


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Amazing, really, that in this day and age, the care and feeding of a PT6 is still not consistent.
 
Itchy said:
Amazing, really, that in this day and age, the care and feeding of a PT6 is still not consistent.
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Try maintaining pistons. Evidently in this day and age it's still not possible to make things like magnetos, fuel pumps, or starter clutches last to tbo.
 
learhawkerbe400 said:
But pt-6s are so reliable! I have no clue why anyone buys TBMs, Caravans or PC-12s.
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At my shop we fly both PT6's and pistons. Over the course of the past 30 years, with hundreds of thousands of hours with a fleet of about 50 in both types of engines, I believe we've only had one PT6 engine failure that wasn't pilot induced. Piston? Too many to count, though it has gotten better in the last 15 years.


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