You just made my point, thank you for taking the time.
As a Real A&P Let me congratulate you on almost becoming a A&P.
You just made my point, thank you for taking the time.
As a Real A&P Let me congratulate you on almost becoming a A&P.
You just made my point, thank you for taking the time.
Dispute the fraud as in the almost A&P yes I do. I will however add that just like any profession there are bad people on both sides. I will also add that you cant generalize all A&P's or pilots into one group or another. Its a small community and you have to let the frauds speak for themselves.Do you dispute the fraud?
Do you dispute the fraud?
There’s plenty of fraud in medicine too. Just curious what was being disputed here
Stuff break.
That happens.
It is not possible to predict the life of every piece of equipment.
As a Real A&P Let me congratulate you on almost becoming a A&P.
Oh I could have finished for my licence but when the instructor admitted in front of the class that I was correct, that's when I decided to quit and I didn’t take that lightly,I had a lot invested.
Also, I thought (apparently wrongly) that I had no intention of painting all or only licenced A&P mechanics with the same brush just like not all cops are bad cops but there are sure a lot of them.
I used to do a lot of my own work at the airport and I would have the local mechanics check and certify
(sign off ) on my work, I even helped them with there jobs for free just for the experience.
I sent one of my engines to a (CERTIFIED) rebuild station for a complete zero hour rebuild, it cost me $11,500.00. Later after I got the engine back I was contacted by the FAA and told my airworthiness certificate had been cancelled because the rebuild station had used prohibited methods on my engine which explained why it burned so much oil after the rebuild.
So I had to spend another $11,500.00 for another rebuild and several thousand more for more new parts. I never recovered any of my loses. I could have bought a brand new engine for that kind of money had I known how it would turn out.
I've got more but it's late and I'm tired so I'm going to bed and now I'm to mad to go to sleep remembering how I got screwed.
Let me doddg it up here.
1. What professor/instructor would admit to a student that that professors life career that he is teaching was a fraud? Something doesn't hold water, but I wasn't there so whatevs.
2. Your intent was clear from the get go, and you definitely painted with a broad brush. You only backed up when you realized you were in an environment that had counterpoints. You have a bone to pick with how expensive airplane ownership was and you will bash our industry to everyone you meet. May not be intentional but it's what your doing.
1a. I know a lot of cops, I don't know a single bad one. I know people who were crummy cops, but they all got fired.
3. I had a lot of guys who wanted me to check their work and sign it off, if they can do it better and don't want to pay me they can go ahead and explain that to the investigators when something happens. I did/do some consulting on experimentals, but certified aircraft by law requires me to do the maintenance or oversee it, if I didn't see it I definitely didn't oversee and I'm not breaking CFR's for anyone. Want to do your own work, build your own airplane, or find that shady tech that will sign it off for a beer. This is my profession and my livelihood why would I go on a limb for anyone? I wouldn't ask you to. Law also requires me to solely complete annuals, so "owner assisted" is the owner watching me do my work and learning by watching and asking questions. It is a proven fact that non assisted annuals are cheaper when in a shop that charges by the hour. Most owners have to ask questions and then it becomes a lesson and that adds time, and time is money. We don't get free groceries we still have to earn a living despite what a group of pilots believe.
4. Repair stations do not require a&p's. I would really like to see the letter the faa sent you telling you your engine was decertified, it would be a first for me. I have seen ad's issued against engines done in shady service centers, or that had parts suspected to be out of spec, but I've never seen the FAA straight up revoke an engine's certificate. I would have been knocking on a lawyers door and gotten a settlement from the repair station. Not saying it didn't / doesn't happen, but if the FAA did revoke its airworthiness somehow you should have sought satisfaction from the people who ripped you off. Not aviation maintenance in general.
5. 11,500 is cheap, like half to 1/3 price of what a zero time costs, may have been a going rate back in the 80s I guess. I spent nearly that in parts and repairs on the last 0-300 I overhauled not counting time (which I got ripped out of by a pilot that promised me flight training, my fault not aviation). Zero times are wastes of money anyway, a good local a&p IA could have overhauled your engine for less money and would have been there to support you through your break in. Lots of books and articles on the topic. A lot, not all, but an awful lot of oil consumption and leak issuses come from improper break ins. A good local IA could have had you squared away with an overhauled, not rebuilt which is zero timed, for roughly 2/3 the cost of a zero time depending on what needed replaced including installation. I saw a lot of people get sucked into the zero time trap, and the margins and mandatory replacments for overhaul vs rebuilt are slim. And there is no value added with a zero time engine vs. overhauled (with all the tags). Sucks you got got, but it wasn't the faa and it wasn't a&p's that got you.
5. Sorry you got called out. I'm not sorry for defending aviation mx in the U.S. the regs and highly trained and licensed mx professionals are a major reason for our safety record in civil aviation. Maintenance induced faults are a problem, but most come from unnecessary, but mandatory invasive inspections. This is being worked out, but aviation rule making takes time as it is a government process.
I’d guess it was a wheel bearing failure, not the gear leg. Those small tires spin the wheel bearings up from zero rpm to 3 to 4x what an automotive wheel bearing sees instantly when the plane touches down which beats the he’ll out of the bearings. Wheel stayed on during taxi and takeoff then gyroscopic effect pulled it off the axle when the plane lifted off, probably during a direction change or yaw correction.
I have a lot of friends in the experimental aviation world that have transitioned from certificated aircraft. It’s nice to not have to go through so much BS when it comes to equipping and maintaining their planes.
Those gear legs are notorious weak points. That cast aluminum knuckle cracks and owners put shiny white krylon over the cracks before annual to save money. I've seen a lot. I've seen bearing seizures, but never seen one so bad that it departed the aircraft. I would imagine hardware malfunction. We'll see though.
Hard to imagine anyone hiding a crack with paint, especially when it’s part of the landing gear. Do people think this stuff fixes itself?