Originally Posted by
Flight_Idle
Just a simple 'Feeler gauge' check for enough gap to ensure freedom of movement, if the bolts the wrong size then change it. Just don't clamp things together because the instructions tell you to.
How simple is it to have a properly engineered 'Gap' by feeler gauge, not all this 'Torque loading a bolt' so it's in 'Safety?' Just 'winding it up until the thread, or thread & a half shows through & clamping parts together as a result.
As I said much earlier, pilots used to 'Rackle the shackle in my day, to ensure that the shackle was really free.
That there would be a dangerous precedent, because the minute you start to ignore the written instructions / manuals, the whole lot for the aircraft might as well be slung in the bin... just because it tells you in the written instructions that you can lift off in 1000 metres with a maximum of XYZ fuel onboard, do you double that fuel load and ignore the book on a 1000 metre runway?