SPAJC
Pre-takeoff checklist
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- May 15, 2014
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- 395
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- Spartanburg, South Carolina
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Jeff
So....i've had this happen several times now. A couple of times, the flaps would not retract and a couple of times, they would 't extend. Everytime I' ve spoken to the A&P about it, we couldn't duplicate the problem. So, I went out on a crappy weather day and pulled the inspection plates. I lubed the mechanisms related to the flaps per the A&P suggestion. They seemed to smooth out just a little bit. So today, nice and windy. Thought I'd go out and take advantage of some seemingly rare free time and get some practice. On my third approach, flaps at 20, smooth through touch-down and all, then they wouldn't retract again. So I taxi back to the ramp and park it. When I lubed everything up on the bad weather day, I extended and retracted the flaps numerous times. They stuck once and after some lube, didn't do it again. When they stuck, I found that I could apply just a little pressure to the flap and hit the switch and they would retract. After that, they worked fine again. So my thought was that the lubrication helped. Today when they stuck, I couldn't budge them. So I pulled the inspection plates and looked around again. Everything seemed fine, but no amount of pushing/pulling would help. It was really windy and worried about damage to the airplane, I didn't want to leave them extended, so, I pulled the plate that exposes the rear of the flap motor. Tapped it a couple times and it starts workng again. Prior to this, I checked the fuse, and observed that when you hit the flap switch, either way, you could hear the motor click, but nothing more would happen.
So my thought now is, bad flap motor. But, I start reading on the internet and see people with similar issues and people talking about micro-switches and limiters. I dont think my plane has limiters. So, anyone have any thoughts? Should I immediately replace the motor or is there something else that I should check before I spend the money? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
By the way, it has the simple up/down toggle switch. The motor will continue to run until you release the switch weather fully extended to 40 or fully retracted. The switch seems to work just fine. Thanks again!
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So my thought now is, bad flap motor. But, I start reading on the internet and see people with similar issues and people talking about micro-switches and limiters. I dont think my plane has limiters. So, anyone have any thoughts? Should I immediately replace the motor or is there something else that I should check before I spend the money? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
By the way, it has the simple up/down toggle switch. The motor will continue to run until you release the switch weather fully extended to 40 or fully retracted. The switch seems to work just fine. Thanks again!
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