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Msg ID: 2717955 Airbus Garbage +3/-9     
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     
Author:LESS COWLINGS GOING .......
1/24/2022 4:26:36 PM

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THROUGH BLADES



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Msg ID: 2717974 Airbus Garbage +7/-2     
Author:Anonymous
1/24/2022 6:05:30 PM

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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     
Author:too complicated for peeeelots
1/24/2022 7:17:27 PM

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Msg ID: 2718005 Airbus Garbage +2/-1     
Author:Garbage
1/24/2022 9:14:22 PM

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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     
Author:R D Nekk
1/24/2022 8:15:45 PM

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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     
Author:On
2/3/2022 10:11:06 AM

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what "leading edges"?



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Msg ID: 2719123 On your inspection stand, facing the transmission deck and cover, the edge  +0/-0     
Author:R D Nekk
2/3/2022 1:23:23 PM

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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     
Author:Bent Wrench
1/24/2022 10:00:13 PM

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lube them with silicone grease. 



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Msg ID: 2718010 Airbus Garbage +1/-2     
Author:They don’t call em
1/24/2022 10:07:44 PM

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AS Tree Fiddy fer nuttin!!!  Nnn



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Msg ID: 2718011 Airbus Garbage +1/-2     
Author:I never did count how many
1/24/2022 10:10:28 PM

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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     
Author:Nancy
1/25/2022 10:52:12 AM

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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     
Author:Anonymous
1/25/2022 1:29:19 PM

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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     
Author:Option2
1/25/2022 5:22:01 PM

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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     
Author:mechanic?
1/25/2022 5:28:57 PM

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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     
Author:R D Nekk
2/3/2022 1:39:22 PM

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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     
Author:Anonymous
1/25/2022 9:02:01 PM

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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     
Author:Just me again
1/26/2022 8:52:48 AM

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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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