Hindsight or Foresight
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Hindsight or Foresight
I purchased a new aircraft, type remaining anonymous for now, last year.
Still awaiting delivery although it is now in the U.K.
I have been utterly confounded by the whole process. I had owned a similar type for a number of years.
Whilst I would have done much of the process entirely differently, hindsight being such a learning curve, I now find myself with no Fire Extinguisher supplied, either by the manufacturer nor local agent.
I find this staggering, bearing in mind the PoH Emergency Checklist for an Electrical Fire calls for the Discharge of .....you guessed it, the Fire Extinguisher.
I am informed it is no longer an EASA requirement to have one......
I am guessing that the maintenance sheets we have been working to up until last year, checking the weight of the one that was in the old plane must have been out of date!
There's more, much more, but all in the fullness of time.
Still awaiting delivery although it is now in the U.K.
I have been utterly confounded by the whole process. I had owned a similar type for a number of years.
Whilst I would have done much of the process entirely differently, hindsight being such a learning curve, I now find myself with no Fire Extinguisher supplied, either by the manufacturer nor local agent.
I find this staggering, bearing in mind the PoH Emergency Checklist for an Electrical Fire calls for the Discharge of .....you guessed it, the Fire Extinguisher.
I am informed it is no longer an EASA requirement to have one......
I am guessing that the maintenance sheets we have been working to up until last year, checking the weight of the one that was in the old plane must have been out of date!
There's more, much more, but all in the fullness of time.
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Oh don't worry, they have been mounting up. Disappointment is an already overused word. I just cannot add more at this time, although I shall catalogue everything so others can learn sometime in the future.
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Let's say the manufacturer / supplier fixes that issue and supplies a fire extinguisher as standard.
Who's to say that the next customer won't complain that they have been supplied with and charged for an unnecessary fire extinguisher which adds weight to the aircraft and increases their maintenance costs ....... ??
Who's to say that the next customer won't complain that they have been supplied with and charged for an unnecessary fire extinguisher which adds weight to the aircraft and increases their maintenance costs ....... ??
I am informed it is no longer an EASA requirement to have one......
NCO.IDE.A.160 Hand fire extinguishers
(a) Aeroplanes, except touring motor gliders (TMG), shall be equipped with at least one hand fire extinguisher:
(1) in the flight crew compartment; and
(2) in each passenger compartment that is separate from the flight crew compartment, except if the compartment is readily accessible to the flight crew.
(b) The type and quantity of extinguishing agent for the required fire extinguishers shall be suitable for the type of fire likely to occur in the compartment where the extinguisher is intended to be used and to minimise the hazard of toxic gas concentration in compartments occupied by persons.
(a) Aeroplanes, except touring motor gliders (TMG), shall be equipped with at least one hand fire extinguisher:
(1) in the flight crew compartment; and
(2) in each passenger compartment that is separate from the flight crew compartment, except if the compartment is readily accessible to the flight crew.
(b) The type and quantity of extinguishing agent for the required fire extinguishers shall be suitable for the type of fire likely to occur in the compartment where the extinguisher is intended to be used and to minimise the hazard of toxic gas concentration in compartments occupied by persons.
