'SmoothC' yr description sums up pretty much any DH A/C well but what about draining the air tank/s making sure there ain't too much oil in them? We had a special tool made up from a ring spanner, only trouble is I couldn't work out whether the air had too much oil in it or the oil had too much air in it
I was beginning to think that I was draining an oil tank not an air tank!
We might as well add placing the U/C external locks in place as well, this was done so as to not have them fold up whilst parked, talk about the 'B&W Minstrals' (white shirt, black hands)after doing that!. Seen a couple of 'em get airborne with them still in place, enter one fixed gear Dove !
Still nice pommy airframe, a delight to hand fly, in fact come to think of it that's all we ever did, hand fly 'em!
CW