| Msg ID: 2717955 |
Airbus Garbage +3/-9
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| Author:Anonymous
1/24/2022 3:19:11 PM |
What horrible designed latches. For real, all these years and they still haven't redesigned them? |
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| Msg ID: 2717964 |
Airbus Garbage +2/-2
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| Author:LESS COWLINGS GOING .......
1/24/2022 4:26:36 PM Reply to: 2717955 |
THROUGH BLADES |
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| Msg ID: 2717974 |
Airbus Garbage +7/-2
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| Author:Anonymous
1/24/2022 6:05:30 PM Reply to: 2717964 |
ya think? maybe it'd be even better if they welded 'em shut? just have to cut 'em open for preflight. |
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| Msg ID: 2717977 |
Airbus Garbage (NT) +3/-4
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| Author:too complicated for peeeelots
1/24/2022 7:17:27 PM Reply to: 2717974 |
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| Msg ID: 2718005 |
Airbus Garbage +2/-1
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| Author:Garbage
1/24/2022 9:14:22 PM Reply to: 2717977 |
fits it. Liked flying the A-Star and Dauphine but they had failure modes that were a tad odd. |
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| Msg ID: 2717990 |
Former employer put bolts, nut plates on the leading edges. +0/-3
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| Author:R D Nekk
1/24/2022 8:15:45 PM Reply to: 2717974 |
Issued pilots nut-drivers. It worked. |
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| Msg ID: 2719109 |
Former employer put bolts, nut plates on the leading edges. +0/-0
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| Author:On
2/3/2022 10:11:06 AM Reply to: 2717990 |
what "leading edges"? |
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| Msg ID: 2719123 |
On your inspection stand, facing the transmission deck and cover, the edge +0/-0
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| Author:R D Nekk
2/3/2022 1:23:23 PM Reply to: 2719109 |
On your inspection stand, facing the transmission deck and cover, the edge of the hatch that meets the cabin aft bulkhead. |
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| Msg ID: 2718009 |
Airbus Garbage +2/-1
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| Author:Bent Wrench
1/24/2022 10:00:13 PM Reply to: 2717955 |
lube them with silicone grease. |
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| Msg ID: 2718010 |
Airbus Garbage +1/-2
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| Author:They don’t call em
1/24/2022 10:07:44 PM Reply to: 2717955 |
AS Tree Fiddy fer nuttin!!! Nnn |
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| Msg ID: 2718011 |
Airbus Garbage +1/-2
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| Author:I never did count how many
1/24/2022 10:10:28 PM Reply to: 2718010 |
Engine cowling latches there were on the AStar Tree Fiddy. How many are there, give or take? |
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| Msg ID: 2718042 |
Airbus Garbage +4/-1
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| Author:Nancy
1/25/2022 10:52:12 AM Reply to: 2717955 |
Keep them adjusted and they work fine . Not in the book there is a sequence to opening and closing them but you know that! |
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| Msg ID: 2718067 |
WAY better designs +2/-2
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| Author:Anonymous
1/25/2022 1:29:19 PM Reply to: 2717955 |
Sikorsky, Agusta Westland, Bell, MD... ALL have latches that take one SINGLE push or pull to open. A SINGLE ACTION. NOT like Airbus/EuroCopter: 1) push in the plastic to uncatch the bar, 2)let the platic cover flip up, 3) grab the round key ring (RIDICULOUS to do is snowy/cold/freezing weather... you have to take your frickin glove off), 4) pull down on the key ring, 5) lift up on the metal tab to uncatch the hooked latch part (which most are spring loaded to whack into your ungloved fingers unless you let the bar back down to it hits into it, 6) THEN you have to hold both bars out of the way while keeping the metal catch from catching on it to lift open whatever cowling you're getting into. RI - DI - CU - LOUS !!!!! How about the EPU or other small doors? You have to push in with your thumb on a CHEAP round metal thing made out of $.02 piece of aluminum and try to rotate it to get it to uncatch. Worst design ever. Almost every other manufacturer uses a butterfly zues fastener that fits that size hole and is WAY easier to open with or without gloves than that stupid push your thumb and rotate into version. |
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| Msg ID: 2718115 |
WAY better designs +2/-0
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| Author:Option2
1/25/2022 5:22:01 PM Reply to: 2718067 |
Maybe you should change Helicopters. Do you have a Mechanic to help you?? |
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| Msg ID: 2718116 |
WAY better designs +3/-0
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| Author:mechanic?
1/25/2022 5:28:57 PM Reply to: 2718115 |
where would I find one of those? |
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| Msg ID: 2719125 |
"Do you have a Mechanic to help you?" That's a joke, right? +0/-0
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| Author:R D Nekk
2/3/2022 1:39:22 PM Reply to: 2718115 |
Maybe your mechanic could help the you into your snowsuit, galoshes? |
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| Msg ID: 2718143 |
No latch system should force you to use 2 hands +1/-1
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| Author:Anonymous
1/25/2022 9:02:01 PM Reply to: 2717955 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm4iGfPw5sI You guys must have never dealt with an Airbus/EuroCopter latch. Go to 26:13 It should never require you to use 2 hands to hold open both latches on a cowling to open it. Especially when climbing up on the side of the aircraft to open the engine cowling (i.e., no solid 3 points of contact). I don't know how any safety person could have allowed this even years ago. |
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| Msg ID: 2718163 |
No latch system should force you to use 2 hands +1/-0
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| Author:Just me again
1/26/2022 8:52:48 AM Reply to: 2718143 |
Have you had the pleasure of opening the Bell 429 xmsn cowling? Or how about impersonating Spiderman to climb up top?
So hazardous that even the Bell school won't let "student" preflight the rotor system. |
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