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MPPalmer(at)aol.com
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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:01 am Post subject: On Return To Service Flights

Just a general thought, spawned from yesterday's discussion: 

 

Do you know what the most dangerous flight is? It's the "return to service" flight. That's when the Concord caught on fire.... they had just done maintenance on an afterburner. (But are trying to claim tire debris caused the problem.) 

 

In general, you've just changed something on an otherwise fine working airplane. We ought to treat these flights as "first flights." Even for something as simple as an oil change.  

 

We had a guy here answer a cell call while screwing on an oil filter. He's dead now. He forgot to tighten it fully after his telephone call, took off for a return to service flight. He lost oil pressure and crashed on final trying to return to the airport. Inspectors found a trail of oil from his hangar to the runup area. 

 

Hope this helps, 

 

Mike Palmer <><

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Craymondw(at)aol.com
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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject: On Return To Service Flights

Now I can see why some owners say; "If it ain't broke don't fix it!!" I started flying in small planes in 1955 and was sitting right seat in two separate landing crashes. Another time I was sitting right seat when the plane we were flying went into a spin in the middle of the night while in a blinding snow storm. And one other time I had an oil cooler hose blow while over a huge lake on a return flight from Oshkosh.  I once had a Pitts Special lose an aileron bolt on final and when I landed and got out I found that all the new self locking nuts for the aileron bolts were about to fall off. I replaced all of the bolts with castle nuts and carter pins. I had just replaced the self locking nuts and later found out they were bogus. When I first completed my Glasair I had a right brake fire that set the wheel pant on fire. I have also lost vacuum pumps, alternator belts and radios at the worse time. Flying is dangerous and over the years I have lost several good acquaintances in crashes. I am often mocked for "Over Maintaining" my plane.

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deej(at)deej.net
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:09 am Post subject: On Return To Service Flights

Craymondw(at)aol.com wrote:

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		    I am often mocked for "Over Maintaining" my plane.   


	


    Let them mock.  There is no such thing as "over-maintaining" a plane 

IMHO.

If you are not comfortable with it, don't fly it.



-Dj



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Dj Merrill - N1JOV

Glastar Sportsman 2+2 Builder #7118

http://econ.duke.edu/~deej/sportsman/



"Many things that are unexplainable happen during the construction of an 

airplane."  --Dave Prizio, 30 Aug 2005

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