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Old 2nd Jan 2006, 00:37
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cjam
 
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Re: Metro Thread

Chief wiggim,

Any maintenance done on a system increases the chance of an incident involving that system. I've heard engineers refer to it as the "bath tub effect" because if you draw a graph of time since maintenance v's likelyhood of an incident , the result looks like a sectioned view of a bathtub. That is why it would be a perfect time to do a more detailed preflight on the fuel system and use the magna sticks.

Easy to say tho and harder to do in reality,
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