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My 18 year old learning the finer parts of replacing the bearings on the elevator on my AA5 that he’s learning to fly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Funny thing to note. I have an ATP-H and CSEL and CMEL. My Citation type rating shows A/CE500 even though I only have a commercial FW rating.

Nothing special about the AA5 series that a normal A&P with some working knowledge of the series can't handle. My AA5 is going into annual tomorrow with a local guy. Sure it's not the "factory" or Fletch, but it hits the highlights. Just like I don't send my 310Q or my 421C out to Texas...

Quoted for posterity as perhaps one of the most eloquent SIC insults ever... Carry on.

Thank you sir. I'm slowly resigning myself to that fact. I have the accumulators and several folks have told me that is half the battle. I just close on a 421C (partnership) yesterday too. I won't be doing any MEI training in that!

The fire warning buttons are on the top left of the panel. On some S/N airframes the CAD will also show FIRE. The issue here is that most NVG modded EC135's will have film over the fire warning buttons which makes it very had to see in the day time. I agree, an annunciation like "fire" would...

Don't forget the "flight department trap" for LLC's https://nbaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/flight-department-company-trap.pdf

I was going to ask you if you had any twin engine helicopter time. Not to stab but there is a significant shift in mindset when you are flying twin engine helicopters. In a single, when all else fails, you auto. I can tell you from experience in the simulator. I was given an engine fire...

The EC135 emergency check list says that if there is a continued indication of an engine fire then you are to land immediately. They define land immediately as "the urgency of landing is paramount. Primary consideration is to assure survival of the occupants. Landing in water, trees or other...

Looking at the terrain and the flight path he did not have too many options. A run on landing is what is required. Given the flight track and approach paths, it looks like he was set up correctly. At the airspeed he was at, he would have almost had to auto to get into a football field. That...

Yep. This has been a HUGE discussion amongst EC135 pilots Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I've got a good bit of time in EC135's and am current in one part 135.293/297/299. It's hard not to try to MMQB this one but I can see me doing the same thing. The fire warning on the EC135 is a little ding and a dull light (especially in an NVG cockpit) on the dash. Most if not all EC135's...

Well I made three calls to different DPE's yesterday and all 3 agreed with the first DPE... Engine has to be feathered. Can any current MEI DPE confirm? PM is acceptable.

From an article "there are normally five fuel tanks—two in each wing, one in the overhead fuselage. Fuel feed is completely automatic so the pilot can’t really foul it up, as in other light twins. There’s no crossfeed either and just a single fuel gauge that gives a reading of the total fuel in...

LOL. I think he means in a descent.

No, the PTS says "at altitudes lower than 3,000 feet above the surface, simulated engine failure will be performed by throttling the engine and then establishing zero thrust." So all I have to do is fly below 3000' and we can't feather an engine...

Just had a chance to look at the PTS. Kind of ambiguous. "The feathering of one propeller can be demonstrated in any multiengine airplane equipped with propellers that can be safely feathered unless the manufacturer prohibits the intentional feathering of the propellers during flight...

The local DPE told me we had to shut one down which is why I started this thread. Maybe he’s wrong! I just did 421 sim initial for the 421 I have in prebuy. Maybe this is where I got it stuck in my head?

Initially, I wasn’t even going to respond to this, but you’ve been around a while, and a lot of your posts have merit It would seem so I will ask - please explain to me how shutting down a high time, large bore fuel injected continental engine inflight and then doing an air start would not cause...

Just need a multi instructor add on. CFI/CFII in Aiplanes and Helicopters already.