Roost Air Lounge => Current Strip => Topic started by: The Dancing Bear on May 29, 2007, 01:16:49 PM
Title: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: The Dancing Bear on May 29, 2007, 01:16:49 PM
Go Julio ,you are the man! ::bow::
Chuck makes a good wrench holder. (I've used folks to help hold up wings too ! )
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: airtac on May 29, 2007, 04:40:30 PM
C'mon guys, you make Chuck look like he's clueless---I mean, yeah, sure, he's like most pilots but--uh--er--ahh----------OK, so he's clueless ! ::banghead::
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: The Dancing Bear on May 29, 2007, 05:01:07 PM
In all fairness to LOTS of other piolts I know & have known ,Chuck is truly in a class all his own !
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: The Dancing Bear on May 29, 2007, 05:02:56 PM
Bloody fat fingers ! Should've been spelled pilots ! Sorry gang,dyslexic fingers . ::type::
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: Baradium on May 30, 2007, 08:14:30 PM
That's what the "edit" button is for. ;)
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: TheSoccerMom on May 31, 2007, 05:38:11 PM
I know a chief mechanic who just shouts "NO PILOTS! NO PILOTS! NO PILOTS! NO PILOTS" any time he spies one of the unwashed in his hangar. It's hilarious. It goes hand-in-hand with his other epithets about pilots, which sure can't be printed here. ::rofl::
:D
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: Rooster Cruiser on May 31, 2007, 10:14:43 PM
I know a chief mechanic who just shouts "NO PILOTS! NO PILOTS! NO PILOTS! NO PILOTS" any time he spies one of the unwashed in his hangar. It's hilarious. It goes hand-in-hand with his other epithets about pilots, which sure can't be printed here. ::rofl::
:D
Sounds like a DOM I once had to work around when I wasn't flying. ;D ::rambo::
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: gibbo_335 on June 01, 2007, 12:16:44 AM
::rofl:: When I was getting a "walk around" at one of the flying schools I was considering, they took me into the service area for the school planes just to show off their operations, I heard from way down the back "DAVO, is this your new Plane wreaker in the making mate??" ::eek:: Who MMEEEE...naaahhh ;D
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: Frank N. O. on June 01, 2007, 06:06:17 AM
LOL gibbo that was a new word for pilot in my book! ::rofl::
And about the strip, almost like a mechanic just by holding a wrench? Well I guess I shouldn't be surprised to hear from someone who didn't feel like a pilot until he bought a big watch, after getting licenses and actually flying daily ::rofl::
Frank
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: The Dancing Bear on June 01, 2007, 11:29:41 AM
You got that right Frank.
But I must relate what one of my pilots did to me just yesterday. I was working on the King Air .Installing ,or rather trying to install ,a new forward vent blower. ("The air conditioning doesn't work." Waaaaahh) After you remove the lower avionics,associated mount trays,lower support plate and access cover,you can get to the blower.The blower has 2 bolts and a band clamp that hold it in place. One bolt & the clamp are relatively easy to get at the second bolt is NOT so easy to install.(Stand in front of a desk ,bend you hand backward,put it in a desk drawer so all that fits is your wrist,hold the drawer tight against your wrist.Then,just using the tips of two fingers,legibly sign your name on the underside of the drawer directly above.) Oh ,did I forget to mention the bolt had a BRASS washer on it too ? There I am trying to use the tips of my fingers to insert & barely start this freakin' bolt,when the airframe starts bobbing around,and the bolt drops down through a lightening hole. The bolt landed in front of the former ring,the washer .....rolled under the forward A/C condenser housing. Somehow the air around me turned a lovely shade of purple as I asked who in flaming hell was in my airplane ! (I was plainly heard on the far side of our 250' hangar.) My chief pilot & a newbie slunk out . Then the pilot asked "How soon will it be done" ? I told him that right up till the point that the hardware dropped it would've been an hour. Needless to say ,the installation went from a 2 hour frustrating job,to a "fishing expedition",to the final "button up" 5 freakin' HOURS later. And they wonder why I have so many gray hairs ....... ! But they got their A/C back ,so everybody was "happy". Remember a couple strips back when Chuck dropped the wrench ? Same thing.
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: airtac on June 01, 2007, 03:42:40 PM
Dancing Bear, My hat is off to you for not killing the aforementioned pilots |:)\ I've always admired aircraft mechanics for doing a difficult job---there's a lot of HPFM factor in what you do (Hocus Pocus-ahem- Magic) --I've always thought that most mechanics must be contortionists too. As far as the A/C complaint---just more proof that turbine pilots whine more than turbine engines ;D
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: TheSoccerMom on June 01, 2007, 09:17:47 PM
A/C?? What's A/C???!? ::sweat::
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: airtac on June 01, 2007, 09:43:17 PM
Air conditioning, My Dear, is what my new employer has installed in all our Shrike Commanders so that I can fly around in luxury this summer whilst "others" sweat and grumble on those really HOT days ;) ::whistle::
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: TheSoccerMom on June 01, 2007, 10:08:00 PM
Well, I will just have to come up to those cool, soothing altitudes where you spin your magic, and join you for some rarified, cool air..... :D
;)
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: Zaffex on June 02, 2007, 12:54:21 AM
Oh yes, I've just recently discovered this wonderful A/C that you call altitude, SoccerMom. I was practicing with my instuctor on some hotter-than-normal days, and I kept getting, well, a little nauseous from the heat ::sick::. So to remedy the problem, we went up to 8,500 ft. I had never realized how nice it is up there until now, and that's just 8,500 ft!
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: airtac on June 02, 2007, 01:24:14 AM
Well, I will just have to come up to those cool, soothing altitudes where you spin your magic, and join you for some rarified, cool air..... :D
;)
OH NO, my petite but sweaty siren, I mean we have A/C that we turn on ON THE GROUND while we taxi and climb out so that the airplane is cool even BEFORE we get to altitude ::) I am going to request further enhancements such as mint juleps at altitude and lounge chairs with umbrellas ;D
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: TheSoccerMom on June 02, 2007, 03:21:41 AM
Oh, SURE, just go ahead and RUB IT IN! COOL -- on the GROUND?!? ::sweat:: Well, I guess I can have that around January or thereabouts, so... that's not killing me near as much as the vision of the mint juleps and the umbrellas!!!!
Oh Great Icy-Cool Pooh-bah, just think of us poor pathetic sweatballs when you are puttering out to take off.... ::sweat:: as you tug that sweatshirt up around your neck a bit higher, to ward off the chill.... while I glare up in frustration at MY (entire!) air conditioning system: one of those 3-inch 59-cent rubber fans they buy in bulk at the farm store and wire into the ceiling..... ahhhh..... it's the glamour, it's the glamour.... !! ::sweat::
:D
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: Baradium on June 02, 2007, 08:16:34 AM
Dancing Bear, My hat is off to you for not killing the aforementioned pilots |:)\ I've always admired aircraft mechanics for doing a difficult job---there's a lot of HPFM factor in what you do (Hocus Pocus-ahem- Magic) --I've always thought that most mechanics must be contortionists too. As far as the A/C complaint---just more proof that turbine pilots whine more than turbine engines ;D
My company is too cheap to keep a/c working... ::knockedout::
And there's not much worse than being hot and having to hit the "increase" side of the temp rocker becuase the aircraft isn't maintaining cabin pressure.
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: Frank N. O. on June 02, 2007, 01:11:52 PM
Wow, that sucked that with the pilot and wreaker in training! In the off chance I'll be blessed and become a commercial pilot, wouldn't it normally be easy to tell if a mechanic was working on the plane I wanted to get near? Especially since I plan on being at a smaller company with transport duties and such and not big passenger airliners.
What little I've worked on the old Ford Orion with my dad when he was still alive then I know you shouldn't rock something you're working with. When me and brother (after our dad died) had to replace the exhuast on the Orion it was assembled in full length including the lower part of the exhuast manifold (just the 4-2 manifold on the engineblock was still stock) and I'd stabilized the top of the vertical part of the exhuast manifold part inbetween something while lying under the front of the car and then a tiny nudge was enough to rock it loose and it fell down directly on my pinkie finger (and only that finger so it got the full weight of the vertical exhuast pipe and manifold)!!!! It was midnight and I yelled so loud I'm sure I must've woken people up! I was sure my fingernail was a goner but I was lucky, nothing apart from intense pain, incredible luck because it was just at the bend for the vertical part of the manifold so there was a lot of weight after it fell about a foot before hitting!
And speaking of AC, then I didn't even think planes had any ventilation in them since there were no knobs/levers or vents like in a car dashboard, apart from the Cirrus but that's about the only one. We got AC in the Lancer but cold normal air in the face is good enough for me (although I do know that cool air can mask sunray damage but that's where a good windshield material comes in to filter rays away). Btw, the Peugeot we drove before was pitch black with blue fabric on black plastic and the normal non-AC cold air was good enough for me. Now I have to remember to keep that AC running at least once a week or more things will get damaged and need repair, not to mention that I hear some car AC's weigh 40+ kg.
Frank
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: Mike on June 02, 2007, 03:33:50 PM
good ol' A/C . . . Panaca Jane doesn't have one either. It used to but it got sacrificed for "mo' power!" I flew an AStar B3 with A/C for a while. That was awesome!! Even after 8hrs of bucket work I was still pretty "refreshed". Now here in Nevada and 120 in the shade . . . not so much...
That big fan on top doesn't make up completely for the "ant-underneath-the-maginfing-glass" you get from the big windshields up front . . . ;)
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: airtac on June 03, 2007, 01:04:22 AM
Oh, SURE, just go ahead and RUB IT IN! COOL -- on the GROUND?!? ::sweat:: Well, I guess I can have that around January or thereabouts, so... that's not killing me near as much as the vision of the mint juleps and the umbrellas!!!!
Oh Great Icy-Cool Pooh-bah, just think of us poor pathetic sweatballs when you are puttering out to take off.... ::sweat:: as you tug that sweatshirt up around your neck a bit higher, to ward off the chill.... while I glare up in frustration at MY (entire!) air conditioning system: one of those 3-inch 59-cent rubber fans they buy in bulk at the farm store and wire into the ceiling..... ahhhh..... it's the glamour, it's the glamour.... !! ::sweat::
:D
It is you, my Perspiring Petunia, of whom I shall think as I "putter" out for takeoff on those hot days on my way to the great conflagration---I may even turn the temperature UP to "barely cool" just to be one with you :D
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: TheSoccerMom on June 03, 2007, 03:39:03 AM
"Perspiring Petunia"?!?!?!? ::rofl:: Oh man, you just made beer come out my nose.. NOT NICE, Daddy Airtac.....!!! Easy, easy!!!
Well, along that line then, there was some serious Ramp-Gardening going on here today. Boise got up to 97 F, and we all got to watch in disbelief as a small desert smoke got rather impressive. It was just south of the airport and it eventually got an air attack and two SEATs, who made some pretty quick turns and no doubt were thinking "Ho, wow, I guess it's fire season now" when they made about their tenth drop in an hour.... heh heh.
I did my utmost to spread the despair at being forgotten.. hey, I figured if we can't go to the fire, well, I'd might as well make everyone else miserable. So.. managed to call a few guys (whom you know) who are also bored on standby, and rub in the fact at least we got to LOOK at a column of smoke. ;D
Well.. back to my Pouring-Petunia-Precipitation here. ::wave:: See you soon, I hope... you'll know me... I'll be the soggy, dripping one. ::sweat::
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: Baradium on June 03, 2007, 08:54:42 AM
And speaking of AC, then I didn't even think planes had any ventilation in them since there were no knobs/levers or vents like in a car dashboard, apart from the Cirrus but that's about the only one. We got AC in the Lancer but cold normal air in the face is good enough for me (although I do know that cool air can mask sunray damage but that's where a good windshield material comes in to filter rays away). Btw, the Peugeot we drove before was pitch black with blue fabric on black plastic and the normal non-AC cold air was good enough for me. Now I have to remember to keep that AC running at least once a week or more things will get damaged and need repair, not to mention that I hear some car AC's weigh 40+ kg.
Frank
In small airplanes there are usually ram air vents for the fresh air. We actually have these in the 1900 as well, but they only can be used when you aren't pressurized (plus they don't really move a lot of air, just a little by your feet).
In a stereotypical cessna single the vents are above your head to the front, they are ram air on the front of the wing and provide a nice blast of air in flight. This is independant of any air conditioning or the aircraft's heater.
Usually part of it is you tend to have a lot more upward facing glass and many times you don't have such a big area (such as entire window in a car) to open to get the fresh air.
It's frustrating when it's 90 degrees (32 C) in the cabin and the outside air temp is -20 C and you can't open the window or fresh air vent because you're pressurized at 20,000 ft. ;)
Title: Re: Almost like a mechanic
Post by: tundra_flier on June 04, 2007, 01:28:43 AM
I can really feel for you guys. I mean, it got up over 70 here the other day! ::sweat:: Was so hot I had both air vents open while doing the young eagles fliights yesterday. Heck, I even left the window open during one takeoff and climbe out.
