td , I didn't know that about the splitter .
Please pass a belated thanks to your mate for making us safer . It is/was appreciated , the UK/Europe can be wet !
Couple of engineering tales . Came out to do the walk around to find a sailing / engineer mate lying in the cowl filing away at a fan blade .
''Gary , 'wot are you doing ? ! ''
'You had a small 'ding' on this blade , so dressing it out . Will have to do the opposite one as well .''
'But with that coarse file ? '
' Yep , it's no prob. it's in the MM [ maintenace manual ] '
ATC , gave a delay [ its LHR ] to our pushback ; time came to go . No I/C contact with Gary on headset !
Called Beatech [ eng dept ] on co. frq. They nipped out of office and woke up Gary .
CFM 56-3 cowl perfect shape/size and in the sun for a lay down, result Gary snoozed off ......
Suppose we could have gone to a blow cycle on starter motor to wake him !
rgds condor .