Indeed hanging over a red hot number two engine while trying to adjust a CECO system vernier coupling viewed through a mirror!!!!!!!!
One of my favourite tasks.
Power matching on the 105 was always a task designed to make grown men cry.
I remember receiving a call at 11 pm from a distraught friend of mine still trying to produce an aircraft for the following morning.
"I can get the top end figures but the bottom end is badly mismatched".
After not much thought, taking into account the task, the time of night and the obviously knackered state of the individual trying to perform it I could only think of one thing to say.
When on earth does anybody fly the sodding thing at those figures!!!!!!
If the engines are giving their rated power the top end matches leave the bottom end matching for another day. GO TO BED!!!!!!!
Eccentric in many ways and seemingly designed by someone totally unfamiliar with the design features of competitors products. The 105 is one of my favourites and has made me a lot of money. Paid a quarter of my mortgage off in a year.