Happened decades ago
Phone call from FBO Festus MO airport. Your aircraft ready for pick up.
Went to office of FBO ; PAID BILL. (Annual Inspection) went / out to airplane ready to fly home airport.- Started the pre flight procedure. Inside cockpit Noted two glaring discrepancies (1) Aircraft still moored, tied down - AIRSPEED Indicator reads 40 MPH Tied DOWN!!
Custom headliner ripped. N2890C had been custom upholstered to match my favorite at the time auto mobile.
I went back to FBO office, advised AS instrument. You BLEW it up with shop compressed air. Fix, replace the AS instrument immediately. They Did. I remained extraordinarily calm. Never mentioned a claim for the custom headliner.
Aircraft TIED Down Airspeed reads 40MPH
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Aircraft TIED Down Airspeed reads 40MPH
gradyb, '54 B N2890C
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Re: Aircraft TIED Down Airspeed reads 40MPH
Yes , but was it a red painted aircraft ?
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Re: Aircraft TIED Down Airspeed reads 40MPH
Paint was brand new Two simple stripes Yellow and Green .
gradyb, '54 B N2890C
Re: Aircraft TIED Down Airspeed reads 40MPH
Well THAT EXPLAINS A LOT! No wonder owners of Green airplanes think they are fast... their airspeed indicators indicate FORTY when SITTING TIED DOWN!MoonlightVFR wrote:Paint was brand new Two simple stripes Yellow and Green .
(Back to reality: It really does amaze me what some shops will do. I witnessed an almost identical error in a King Air when the shop inspector told a floor-mechanic (Have no idea if a qualified A&P) to blow out the static system and the man did exactly as he was told. (No one had instructed him to disconnect the system from instruments beforehand.) Cost them six instruments, two encoders, a pressurization-controller, and a flight-management system overhaul. I seem to recall it was over $18K in parts and labor.
(This was the same mechanic who, when changing out a PT6 on our Cheyenne-II was about to simply CUT the entire engine harness at the firewall rather than disconnect the cannon-plugs on the various engine sensors... and BTW, this was back in 1979 at Atlantic Aviation-HOU …. an authorized service center! It often happens at big shops...I found that frequently it's the small shops which are most talented/careful, perhaps because they specialize more, perhaps because they aren't as diligent at punching-in on a time-clock.)
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50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.