Dave Siciliano
Final Approach
At 04:05 PM 4/17/2005, George Braly wrote:
Late on Friday, after an enormous 3 month engineering effort and
multiple many-partied (more than 12, at times) conference calls with
the FAA, we are advised that the FAA has submitted a limited proposed
AMOC for signature approval. Probably Monday or Tuesday.
This will have the effect of getting virtually all (but not all) of the
fleet flying again under maneuver load and speed restrictions.
As a note to the Bonanza Baron world - - if you think for an instant
that these issues are not specifically relevant to your aircraft, which
have nearly identical center spar and wing structures - - you are badly
deceiving yourselves.
>
Frankly, 260 domestic flying T-34's are out there acting as FFL's - -
- 'Fleet Fatigue Leaders' for the entire fleet of Bonanzas and Barons.
Of those, maybe around a dozen (or fewer) T-34's are now in the high
time/high usage category that qualifies them as "fleet leaders" for
the entire fleet of aircraft that share these structural designs and
implementations.
The next time you run into Julie Clark or the Lima/Lima guys, thank
them, will you?
Regards, George
Late on Friday, after an enormous 3 month engineering effort and
multiple many-partied (more than 12, at times) conference calls with
the FAA, we are advised that the FAA has submitted a limited proposed
AMOC for signature approval. Probably Monday or Tuesday.
This will have the effect of getting virtually all (but not all) of the
fleet flying again under maneuver load and speed restrictions.
As a note to the Bonanza Baron world - - if you think for an instant
that these issues are not specifically relevant to your aircraft, which
have nearly identical center spar and wing structures - - you are badly
deceiving yourselves.
>
Frankly, 260 domestic flying T-34's are out there acting as FFL's - -
- 'Fleet Fatigue Leaders' for the entire fleet of Bonanzas and Barons.
Of those, maybe around a dozen (or fewer) T-34's are now in the high
time/high usage category that qualifies them as "fleet leaders" for
the entire fleet of aircraft that share these structural designs and
implementations.
The next time you run into Julie Clark or the Lima/Lima guys, thank
them, will you?
Regards, George