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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:23 am Post subject: My First Impressions of the Safety Recommendations

Hi Frank,



 I spent a few years in the gumint business myself.   I agree with all you said and have grounded my plane without waiting for the FAA bureaucrats to make up their "Minds".



 I'm no expert on pickling engines, but the impression I got is all you really need to do is spray some special goop into each cylinder to prevent corrosion.  When you are ready to use the engine again, just blow the goop out by removing a spark plug in each cylinder and cranking the engine a few times around.  I suspect you can find the special goop at any aviation oil distributor.



 Paul

 XL grounded



 

 At 04:58 AM 4/15/2009, you wrote:[quote]  In as much as it can in bureaucratic writing, the NTSB is shouting, "Put Mass Balanced Ailerons on those birds."   
Mass balanced ailerons are the solution the NTSB wants and that is the solution we will get.  
We ..as a group of owners and builders.. should forget about nit-picking, carping, and whining and focus like a laser beam on how to get mass-balanced ailerons on our birds ASAP.   
Hingeless ailerons?  I'm not qualified to comment technically, but bureaucratically, asking the FAA/NTSB to contemplate hingeless ailerons is like asking them to contemplate the impact of angels on the economy.  They won't know what to say.  
I'm joining ZBAG immediately.  That group has done good work and I should have joined sooner.  Being cheap was being stupid.   
I'm reading up on how to "pickle" an engine  
I'm calling my insurance company and telling them the airplane is grounded.    
We can't say we didn't see this coming.   
I'm grounded and unhappy, but I think the NTSB did a good piece of work.  We have to get those hingeless ailerons flying.   

 Frank Derfler

 AMD-made 601XL in the Florida Keys

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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:38 pm Post subject: My First Impressions of the Safety Recommendations

Where and how do you join ZBAG? I'm more than willing to provide some financial support for further testing of our airplane to get it safely in the air again. Like other have said, "It'll be one of the most tested ELSA in the air".

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Subject: Re: My First Impressions of the Safety Recommendations

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Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 8:23 AM

 Hi Frank,

I spent a few years in the gumint business myself.   I agree with all you said and have grounded my plane without waiting for the FAA bureaucrats to make up their "Minds".

I'm no expert on pickling engines, but the impression I got is all you really need to do is spray some special goop into each cylinder to prevent corrosion.  When you are ready to use the engine again, just blow the goop out by removing a spark plug in each cylinder and cranking the engine a few times around.  I suspect you can find the special goop at any aviation oil distributor.

Paul

XL grounded

At 04:58 AM 4/15/2009, you wrote:  	  Quote: 	
		    In as much as it can in bureaucratic writing, the NTSB is shouting, "Put Mass Balanced Ailerons on those birds."   
Mass balanced ailerons are the solution the NTSB wants and that is the solution we will get.  
We ..as a group of owners and builders.. should forget about nit-picking, carping, and whining and focus like a laser beam on how to get mass-balanced ailerons on our birds ASAP.   
Hingeless ailerons?  I'm not qualified to comment technically, but bureaucratically, asking the FAA/NTSB to contemplate hingeless ailerons is like asking them to contemplate the impact of angels on the economy.  They won't know what to say.  
I'm joining ZBAG immediately.  That group has done good work and I should have joined sooner.  Being cheap was being stupid.   
I'm reading up on how to "pickle" an engine  
I'm calling my insurance company and telling them the airplane is grounded.    
We can't say we didn't see this coming.   
I'm grounded and unhappy, but I think the NTSB did a good piece of work.  We have to get those hingeless ailerons flying.  

Frank Derfler

AMD-made 601XL in the Florida Keys

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