However when you need the RAT, you NEED the RAT
Exactly. They didnt put the RAT on the ac for the hell of it.
I have a suspicion that when they say a year to fix a knob or a RAT, that it simply means that units built to date, will be covered under the exception, and that units after that date, will be compliant.
Does anyone think that they will actually go and replace the knob of all of the 87-8's? Will they replace all of the existing RAT's??
Its all

. just like the batteries.
That ac is a disaster, and it flies like

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