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You never know!!Were you planning on doing something dumb?
You never know!!Were you planning on doing something dumb?
Wow. I have been flying since the mid 1960's and I have NEVER been ramp checked.
Should I be upset that the FAA doesn't love me, or afraid there is a ticking bomb with my name on it?
I find filling out the log book is a cathartic part of my aviation afterglow and I do it as soon as I have completed the after flight check list.
I use my logbook as a reference for my clients to fill out their log books before I add my notes and sign it.
Managing scraps of paper in an open aircraft can be challenging for me.
My Garmin 196 keeps a nice flight log so I suspect it is not necessary to keep a paper log book as I am not working on any additional ratings or applying for a job. It does not have a place for notes that I know of.
Every interaction I have had with the FAA has had either no impact of a positive effect on my flying.
Perhaps as my experience grows I will develop a more adversarial relationship with the FAA.
I find joy in looking through my old log books and recalling the flights.
Should I be upset that the FAA doesn't love me, or afraid there is a ticking bomb with my name on it?
Many, many years ago, when I first got out of the Air Force.Although it could happen under Part 91, have you flown Part 135 and/or 121? Ramp checks are more common there.
Whoo boy, I hear they are compiling a list of "Have Avoided Ramp Checks for Eons" and the hammer is going to drop on you boys. It will be the ramp check from hell. I mean. A detailed and lengthy grilling under hot spotlights. It will involve a gloved finger and more!
Whoo boy, I hear they are compiling a list of "Have Avoided Ramp Checks for Eons" and the hammer is going to drop on you boys. It will be the ramp check from hell. I mean. A detailed and lengthy grilling under hot spotlights. It will involve a gloved fist and more!
I hardly ever fly with log books, they stay at home. If I need them for instructor endorsement, they stay in my truck until post flight, then I go get them. I have spreadsheet and LogBook Pro backup on the computer with archived files.Same here. I keep mine on me. I back it up electronically and have all the pages from my student days photocopied for nostalgia, so if something were to happen to it, I still have what I want and need.
Indeed. After my private, logbook stayed at home.I hardly ever fly with log books, they stay at home. If I need them for instructor endorsement, they stay in my truck until post flight, then I go get them. I have spreadsheet and LogBook Pro backup on the computer with archived files.
Wow. I have been flying since the mid 1960's and I have NEVER been ramp checked. Should I be upset that the FAA doesn't love me, or afraid there is a ticking bomb with my name on it?
Never been ramped as a private pilot......but had the privilege as an OPS agent for major airline to see many Captains and FO's sweat out ramp checks. We were blessed to have an inspector we eventually named "Dr. Drip" come by our field several times a year. Dr. Drip was a former mechanic who got fired when his airline was dissolved into another. So he was bitter and he took it out on every airline he came in contact with. You could figure on a delay whenever he showed. I would walk with him as he gave our planes the evil eye, so I could get a jump on fixing or explaining whatever he came up with. A loose screw, an engine with a few too many drips, a tire with low pressure.......all fair game for the Drip.....eventually he got more sophisticated and went for the O2 bottles in the doors that fired the slides out......if they were not in the green you better start calling to find one somewhere. You can all relax as he is long gone, and in fact eventually one of our maintenance managers got him pulled off the ramp but he spread a lot of joy all those years he was around.
I was ramp checked by two inspectors at Camarillo in my experimental gyroplane. It was so windy I had to have them help me secure the aircraft. 27kts gusting to 39kts as I recall.
I was ramp checked once at Santa Paula by a lone inspector.
Airworthiness, registration, operating limitations, weight and balance, pilot certificate, medical and pilot log book with flight review.
Everything was in order and it was a nonevent taking about 45 minutes both times.
The inspectors were all pleasant.
Negative.Are you required to travel with a log book?
No worries ... the new FAA plan is to get one or two major ramp inspections and get it all out of the way in one shot or two shots ... which will occur at 2017 Sun-N-Fun and Oshkosh
If an FAA guy was ever going to mysteriously disappear while doing a ramp check, this is when it would happen.
In the GA world, the ramp check cannot delay you from departure or leaving the airport post flight for a meeting.Never been ramped as a private pilot......but had the privilege as an OPS agent for major airline to see many Captains and FO's sweat out ramp checks. We were blessed to have an inspector we eventually named "Dr. Drip" come by our field several times a year. Dr. Drip was a former mechanic who got fired when his airline was dissolved into another. So he was bitter and he took it out on every airline he came in contact with. You could figure on a delay whenever he showed. I would walk with him as he gave our planes the evil eye, so I could get a jump on fixing or explaining whatever he came up with. A loose screw, an engine with a few too many drips, a tire with low pressure.......all fair game for the Drip.....eventually he got more sophisticated and went for the O2 bottles in the doors that fired the slides out......if they were not in the green you better start calling to find one somewhere. You can all relax as he is long gone, and in fact eventually one of our maintenance managers got him pulled off the ramp but he spread a lot of joy all those years he was around.
In SkyDog's defense, there is usually zero information in the aircraft maintenance manuals pertaining to slide packs, other than removal and replacement, as the slide packs are not normally serviced, in service. Door actuation bottles are another story, they are serviced with N2.So Skydog58........your statement #8......... 8. O2 bottles to fire the slides?! LOL. Wow! How about N2? Seriously, you have no clue.
We'll see who has no clue......I can shoot down your other 7 points as well but won't waste my time
From LUFTHANSA TEKNIK
Depending on their content and operating pressure, the cylinders are constructed from steel, aluminum or titanium. The OXYGEN and carbonic acid mixture used for the emergency CHUTES is under a pressure of over 200 bar, the oxygen cylinders are pressurized to 120 bar, and the quenching gas in fire extinguishers is maintained at a pressure of between 20 and 60 bar. This permanent pressure loading weakens the material. Hence the condition of the compressed gas cylinder material is checked at predetermined intervals of between three and 14 years in the "hydrostatic test".
I suspect LUFTHANSA TEKNIK is in error.
Oxygen is not a flammable gas. It is an oxydizer.
Technically speaking, sure.
Technically is how I was speaking.
When you are shipping and labeling O2 you do not apply a flammable gas label to it, you put on oxydizer label on it and a compressed gas label on it and based on your training you know to not load it with flammables.
Ignition requires three things: Oxygen, a source of ignition, and something else to be ignited. Apply heat to pure oxygen all by itself and nothing happens. Having said that, of course it is dangerous, because it can be close to impossible to keep it separated from real flammable materials.
ValuJet comes to mind.