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Old 20th Jul 2015, 07:56
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dhavillandpilot
 
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All british aircraft post WW II have fatigue life's

In the RN Heron I owned it had a fatigue meter fitted.

The Heron had two fatigue lives 15000 and then change the spar then an absolute 30000 hours

My aircraft had 16000 hours TT but a fatigue life of only 12000.

I soon learnt to religiously ensure the fatigue meter was working.

Also discovered if you did a sector length of 3 hours in calm weather the meter only read around 1.2 hours.
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