IO540
You are quite correct, this is because an aircraft owner that was working on his aircraft left a soldering iron on and went for a cup of tea.
Had the fire that had been started by the unattended soldering iron not been discoverd by passer-by the whole hangar would have caught fire and I would have had wait in line to hit the pratt who would have destroyed my aircraft.
The rule is a real pain but at lease it protects my aircraft from idiots.
As for a 50 hour check taking 3 hours, you can't be looking at much. Im hard pushed to do a 50 hour on one of my own Cessna 152's in less than 6 hours. just to get the cowls off, clean and gap the 12 plugs on an IO540, cut open the filter can, change the oil and inspect the airfilter would take 2 hours..................... so just what do you look at on the airframe in ONE hour?
Last edited by A and C; 18th May 2006 at 22:39.