flyingcheesehead
Touchdown! Greaser!
We just had our 182 in for annual, and after taking it on a long cross-country flight, I'm not convinced everything was actually inspected, or it was haphazardly put back together.
I guess what I'm wondering is, should the following things have been checked and operational following the annual?
1) Landing light inop. This was inop before and after the annual. Filament on the bulb appears to be intact.
2) Nav2 head appears to be disconnected. I tuned and successfully identified several navaids, but the needle stayed in the middle and the flag stayed on. Also, the light in this nav head was inop as well. Is the whole thing simply disconnected? (Radio is a MAC 1700 King rebuild, FWIW.)
3) Lights for engine instruments are inop.
4) Lots of noise coming from the copilot side on the intercom. Lots of noise on the sidetone when transmitting on Com2. (Related to #2 maybe?)
I know the A&P/IA is probably more concerned with strictly airworthiness-type issues, but shouldn't they notice something like a landing light (which was squawked); and wouldn't you think they'd be able to re-connect the panel properly? It really makes me wonder about the quality of the entire job.
I guess what I'm wondering is, should the following things have been checked and operational following the annual?
1) Landing light inop. This was inop before and after the annual. Filament on the bulb appears to be intact.
2) Nav2 head appears to be disconnected. I tuned and successfully identified several navaids, but the needle stayed in the middle and the flag stayed on. Also, the light in this nav head was inop as well. Is the whole thing simply disconnected? (Radio is a MAC 1700 King rebuild, FWIW.)
3) Lights for engine instruments are inop.
4) Lots of noise coming from the copilot side on the intercom. Lots of noise on the sidetone when transmitting on Com2. (Related to #2 maybe?)
I know the A&P/IA is probably more concerned with strictly airworthiness-type issues, but shouldn't they notice something like a landing light (which was squawked); and wouldn't you think they'd be able to re-connect the panel properly? It really makes me wonder about the quality of the entire job.