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fderfler(at)gmail.com
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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:02 am Post subject: My First Impressions of the Safety Recommendations

I qualify as a government bureaucrat.  I spent a decade inside the Beltway and more decades working around it.  I am a happy AMD-made 601XL owner who has 250 hours on his airplane.  My initial observation is that the NTSB's Safety Recommendation is one of the best written documents I've seen come out of the Federal Government.  That doesn't apply to the press release, which I judge was written by some PR person and was a CYA exercise. The report is as cogent and thoughtful a recommendation as a government can produce.  It is well written too.   



Here are some of my conclusions: 

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

See my discussion of  All the Guy Toys that aren't (clearly) illegal or (blatantly) immoral at http://mostlyflying.com  

 

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fderfler(at)gmail.com
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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:12 am Post subject: My First Impressions of the Safety Recommendations

As I finished my note, someone walked into my office.  My fingers types "hingeless" ailerons and clicked on the "send" button all on their own.  They should have typed "Mass Balanced" ailerons.  We need to get mass-balanced ailerons out on the ends of the wings and flying ASAP! 

 

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		   I qualify as a government bureaucrat.  I spent a decade inside the Beltway and more decades working around it.  I am a happy AMD-made 601XL owner who has 250 hours on his airplane.  My initial observation is that the NTSB's Safety Recommendation is one of the best written documents I've seen come out of the Federal Government.  That doesn't apply to the press release, which I judge was written by some PR person and was a CYA exercise. The report is as cogent and thoughtful a recommendation as a government can produce.  It is well written too.    



Here are some of my conclusions: 

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

See my discussion of  All the Guy Toys that aren't (clearly) illegal or (blatantly) immoral at http://mostlyflying.com  

  

Anybody who READS (anybody out there?) See www.greatguybooks.com

 



 	


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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:17 am Post subject: My First Impressions of the Safety Recommendations

Well Said Frank.



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		  From: Frank Derfler <fderfler(at)gmail.com>

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To: zenith601-list(at)matronics.com

Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 6:58 AM



I qualify as a government bureaucrat.  I spent a decade inside the Beltway and more decades working around it.  I am a happy AMD-made 601XL owner who has 250 hours on his airplane.  My initial observation is that the NTSB's Safety Recommendation is one of the best written documents I've seen come out of the Federal Government.  That doesn't apply to the press release, which I judge  was written by some PR person and was a CYA exercise. The report is as cogent and thoughtful a recommendation as a government can produce.  It is well written too.   



Here are some of my conclusions: 

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

See my discussion of  All the Guy Toys that aren't (clearly) illegal or (blatantly) immoral at http://mostlyflying.com  

 

Anybody who READS (anybody out there?) See www.greatguybooks.com

 



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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:32 am Post subject: My First Impressions of the Safety Recommendations

Having already read (with care) the NTSB report, I fully concur, Frank; this is a very useful summary of where we seem to be. And as has been suggested by several others on the list, we owe ABAG a great deal of thanks; I chose not to join originally because I did not see what such a group could do that Zenith could not do, had not already done, better. But when Terry suggested some weeks ago that Zenith/Europe extend the tests, then being done, to cover our xls here, I both wrote to Michael Heinz (as did a number of others, I assume) to urge this extension and agreed to particpate financially in ABAG if that would help. The offer obviously still stands. I suppose, meanwhile, that I will work on the panel (or paint the wheelpants). 

  

 Next month's Cloverdale Open House ought to be quite a gathering, especially if we all have to arrive by auto.

  

 Elden Jacobson

 xl/3300



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From: Frank Derfler <fderfler(at)gmail.com>

Subject: My First Impressions of the Safety Recommendations

To: zenith601-list(at)matronics.com

Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 7:58 PM



 I qualify as a government bureaucrat.  I spent a decade inside the Beltway and more decades working around it.  I am a happy AMD-made 601XL owner who has 250 hours on his airplane.  My initial observation is that the NTSB's Safety Recommendation is one of the best written documents I've seen come out of the Federal Government.  That doesn't apply to the press release, which I judge was written by some PR person and was a CYA exercise. The report is as cogent and thoughtful a recommendation as a government can produce.  It is well written too.   



 Here are some of my conclusions: 

 



   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

 



See my discussion of  All the Guy Toys that aren't (clearly) illegal or (blatantly) immoral at http://mostlyflying.com  



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