Central Counties Brown Trouser Moment!!
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Central Counties Brown Trouser Moment!!
Central Counties ASU have had an interesting incident involving a main rotor scissor link becoming detached on landing. Brown trousers all around chaps??
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Is this the same EC135 that suffered a siezed swashplate bolt a couple of weeks ago and suffered a vibration in flight..........then taken back to maintenance base by truck to have swashplate parts repaired or replaced..............................
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[You would think the AAIB would ground the fleet if they thought it was a component issue and having net seen an SB as yet. All pointing in one direction.
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Yeah, and we pilots never make mistakes do we.
]Yeah, and we pilots never make mistakes do we.
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ECUK have assured us that there will be a thorough and detailed investigation "no matter how ugly".
Last week 4 engineers were suspended pending interview with the AAIB.
I don't think we should second guess the AAIB - but I have a personal opinion! as discussed earlier if there was even a hint of mechanical failure then we would not be flying now - I would hope anyway!
I have heard a rumour that the control rods had to be disconnected during the track and balance. To allow one of them to be removed the scissor link nut needed to be removed - draw your own conclusions.
Last week 4 engineers were suspended pending interview with the AAIB.
I don't think we should second guess the AAIB - but I have a personal opinion! as discussed earlier if there was even a hint of mechanical failure then we would not be flying now - I would hope anyway!
I have heard a rumour that the control rods had to be disconnected during the track and balance. To allow one of them to be removed the scissor link nut needed to be removed - draw your own conclusions.
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Is that fact or just conjectur?
Good job this is a rumour network or you might just have opened yourself up to a damned good court case. I'm quite sure the engineers involved might not see the funny side though!
Why would you remove a drive link nut during track and balance? Serious design floor there then!
You would have thought with 4 pitch change links and 2 drive links you would have at least 45 degrees of seperation between the various components.
As a 5 post man wombat45 are you just in for the 5hit stir?
Good job this is a rumour network or you might just have opened yourself up to a damned good court case. I'm quite sure the engineers involved might not see the funny side though!
Why would you remove a drive link nut during track and balance? Serious design floor there then!
You would have thought with 4 pitch change links and 2 drive links you would have at least 45 degrees of seperation between the various components.As a 5 post man wombat45 are you just in for the 5hit stir?
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"I'm quite sure the engineers involved might not see the funny side though!"
I'm sure the crew found it even funnier.
Its not about people losing there jobs but if they were at fault then !! (and there has been no SB or AD to say otherwise).
I'm sure the crew found it even funnier.
Its not about people losing there jobs but if they were at fault then !! (and there has been no SB or AD to say otherwise).
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Questions....
quichemech - are you an EC135 engineer ? - If not can anyone else answer - Does the Scissor link nut need to be removed to allow one of the ( pitch link ) control rods to be removed during tracking and balancing, as in the "rumour" mentioned by Wombat ??
BUDGIE - In your "Truth forum" post :
I don't think anyone directly involved finds this to be funny, in the comical sense - Where did you obtain this "truth" about the engineers ?
Final question, after return from maintenance for work on the rotor head, IF the Scissor link nut had not been refitted ( which seems to be the conclusion that Wombat might want to infer ), or had been refitted incorrectly, is this something that would be obvious during the pilot's pre-flight inspection ?
BUDGIE - In your "Truth forum" post :
I'm sure the crew found it even funnier. Even more so when it looks like the engineers where spending more time laughing than fixing.
Final question, after return from maintenance for work on the rotor head, IF the Scissor link nut had not been refitted ( which seems to be the conclusion that Wombat might want to infer ), or had been refitted incorrectly, is this something that would be obvious during the pilot's pre-flight inspection ?