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Old 21st Mar 2014, 15:24
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Genghis the Engineer
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It's my aeroplane (well shared with two other likeminded hedgehoppers), we do pretty much all the maintenance between us, and slightly worn or corroded fasteners just get replaced as a matter of course, because we can, the cost is trivial, and it creates this warm fuzzy feeling of a slightly "better and safer" aeroplane.

Flexwings are rigged/derigged and bits disassembled for inspection as a matter of routine anyhow. They're designed for it. I know it's unnecessary, but it's still my aeroplane and I can. I wouldn't, as an inspector, insist that somebody else did unless the part was genuinely approaching end of life or unsafe.

Same with some other things like cleanliness, neatness of wire locking, tidiness of wiring - there's acceptable safe standards I'd insist on if overseeing somebody else's aeroplane, then there's the higher standard I want on my own.

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