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Double Engine Removal for Kulula at Lanseria

Old 18th Mar 2011, 20:02
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"Are you as good with grammer and spelling in your tech logs as well......normally aircrew are not........ "

@Natureair - Thats if they bother to stay long enough to write anything.
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Old 18th Mar 2011, 21:35
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If you want no snags - write nothing.
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Old 19th Mar 2011, 04:16
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Now as much as I do enjoy partaking in a little friendly banter with my spanner wielding comrades, I do think that a line needs to be firmly drawn in the sand here.... and as this is a rumor network, I can only go by what I was told on the apron today, moments before I had to drag my sorry arse into the air for another epic battle with the elements on a godless trip into the unknown, that has ended with me in one piece and a not so healthy aircraft in the middle of a rather unforgiving desert for an unspecified period of time. The life of a contract dog is at best unforgiving, but I digress. From what I was told today, is that said aircraft (rumor network!) was inbound and lost an engine and as any good company would do, a replacement was sent, said replacement also lost an engine on the way in. This created a rather large problem but easily solved buy our trusty beasts of burden, both f@#%d donkeys were taken away and the 2 good ones put onto the good a/c. question is, where are the engines now? and if this was in fact the scenario, why were there no reports in a local paper about the obligatory death plummet and stalling of the engine resulting of the suddenly falling out of the sky of the metallic bird???? If I am honest, I think the engineers must have f@#$ed up again and management is covering for the bastards to make the flight crew look bad so that they can drop our salaries. It makes seance!

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Old 19th Mar 2011, 06:21
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Grammer(sic) and spelling?


How do you cope with maintenance manuals?
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Old 19th Mar 2011, 06:49
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Twotter,
That's why the maintenance manuals have so many pictures in them. Engineers need only know how to read OR write, or, for Apprentices, to know someone who can.
Those of us that can read and write become the Chief Engineer and translate the picture/words interface for the rest of them......
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Old 19th Mar 2011, 08:07
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Spot on Mr Load. That talent engineers have for peeling bananas with their feet comes in useful when multi tasking too. Always good to have another set of digits with which to get to those awkwardly placed items.




(Although the poo flinging and chest beating thing can be a bit infra dig.)
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Old 19th Mar 2011, 15:32
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S.R.T.

You can like to be cruisin for a bruisin china..... your toof can like to look like ve picher here if they get you.....

Valid point as news 24 / E TV news never reported on the " my life flashed before my eyes" and the sure death plummet after the engine exploded...the noise, the blinding flash, or ComAir might have said news agency's in their pocket, and you are only allowed to slander the jurassic iron bird from that other lowcost carrier.

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Old 19th Mar 2011, 15:41
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Kronos,

The Rusty Twotter is a sharp customer, man.
Gotta wake up real early to get one over on him, besides, he's not too bad....................................for a pilot...
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Old 19th Mar 2011, 19:14
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Yerssss..... One can even peel bananas with one's feet, like any good engineer. Besides, Twotters are built for those of us of a more simian persuasion, hence the monkey handle power levers on the roof.
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Old 21st Mar 2011, 09:09
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To unstable and all the other Irritable bus drivers. We don't have to read because we can remember sometimes up to four different aircrafts systems, depending how many different variants we have to maintain.

anyway its very rich coming from you so called higher than thou, that can't even do a simple COPCO start with first having to look at his procedure manual.

Is it also a must to touch the instruments when explaining to F/O. Try doing it without smudging the instruments, so we have to clean your grime.

P.S. They are waiting for one pilot to go on unpaid leave, so they can afford to overhaul the broken engine.
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Old 21st Mar 2011, 11:35
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Most airlines SOP's REQUIRE the crew to do anything out of the supplementary procedures from the manual, and frown (during checkrides) on it being done purely from memory. So pilots doing COPCO starts, battery starts, bleeds off take off's etc from the book, are doing it right. Touch drill is another thing on the 'supposed to do' list (no excuses for any pilots smearing their greasy fingers all over the DU's though). Try not to let compliance with procedures piss you off. This would be the wrong industry for that.
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Old 21st Mar 2011, 11:38
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They are waiting for one pilot to go on unpaid leave, so they can afford to overhaul the broken engine.
Cheapskates. At my airline you could probably buy a new engine on a pilot's pay per month .......

that can't even do a simple COPCO start with first having to look at his procedure manual.
That's just to give the engineer some time to figure out what the cockpit hand signals meant. It is rude to look impatient when they are trying their best.

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Old 21st Mar 2011, 12:33
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If I am honest, I think the engineers must have f@#$ed up again and management is covering for the bastards to make the flight crew look bad so that they can drop our salaries. It makes seance!
As the engines were lost while the aircraft was under the control of da pilots who else should pay for it?

I hope you find them soon!

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Old 21st Mar 2011, 13:32
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To unstable and all the other Irritable bus drivers.


I think your Cable Tie is too tight, old bean. It's interfering with your reading. Read my post again and you'll see I'm no pilot and was actually taking the wee a little. Sadly, I seem to have failed with you.

Then again,
We don't have to read
.... I hope that was in jest, along with this pearl...
because we can remember sometimes up to four different aircrafts systems, depending how many different variants we have to maintain.
Personally, I have grown fond of my maintenance manuals....
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Old 21st Mar 2011, 13:34
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Why don't they make a movie called Top Spanner. A rip off of Top Gun showing the exciting lives of aircraft mechanics. Scenes of golf carts racing between hangers with the setting sun in the background would be epic, or passing each other really closely while appy's get pictures of mechanics flipping 'the bird' to the russian helicopter mechanic as he passes by, him snapping his teeth wildly while chewing gum.
Perhaps the final scene could be an over-tightened bolt tasked to an appy. He requires the top Spanner to intervene and reminisce about a similar crisis in the field, let say, the Congo. He would describe the scene, dirty grease on the floor, bent and broken spanners everywhere, like fire flies, the mechanic eventually defeated by the stubborn bolt is described as last being seen fleeing into long grass with a Night Fighter and a big smile.
As the scene fades the appy is seen, now inspired, but still walking at half pace while eating a sandwich with to much tomato sauce, picking up a hammer......
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Old 21st Mar 2011, 13:49
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Why don't they make a movie called Top Spanner. A rip off of Top Gun showing the exciting lives of aircraft mechanics. Scenes of golf carts racing between hangers with the setting sun in the background would be epic, or passing each other really closely while appy's get pictures of mechanics flipping 'the bird' to the russian helicopter mechanic as he passes by, him snapping his teeth wildly while chewing gum.
Perhaps the final scene could be an over-tightened bolt tasked to an appy. He requires the top Spanner to intervene and reminisce about a similar crisis in the field, let say, the Congo. He would describe the scene, dirty grease on the floor, bent and broken spanners everywhere, like fire flies, the mechanic eventually defeated by the stubborn bolt is described as last being seen fleeing into long grass with a Night Fighter and a big smile.
As the scene fades the appy is seen, now inspired, but still walking at half pace while eating a sandwich with to much tomato sauce, picking up a hammer......
He he... You shoulda posted this in the "You know youre in Africa" thread
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Old 21st Mar 2011, 14:04
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I'm glad you see the post for what it was.
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Old 21st Mar 2011, 14:23
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But of course!
I am after all a licensed aircraft maintenance engineer...

Cheers chaps thanks for the laugh's and dont forget that pre flight, you never know what your friendly AME forgot to put back on.

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Old 21st Mar 2011, 19:28
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I don't really mind AMEs. It's just having to water them twice a week that gets me down....
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the appy is seen, now inspired, but still walking at half pace
Ha! You must have got one of the good ones, there.

I don't really mind AMEs. It's just having to water them twice a week that gets me down....
Must be a fixed wing thing, there. Rotary ones are self-watering, probably as a result of being able to walk AND chew gum without tripping.
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