Been thinking about a test flight to test any airplane after
such damage repair, before carrying passengers.

A full range of control inputs at no more than Va for the
weight, followed with autopilot operation. Then in small
steps of increasing speed up Vne with moderate control
displacement.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

"Jim Macklin" wrote
in message news:gnDUf.476$t22.101@dukeread08...
|I meet people all the time who say, "Hey Jim, didn't you go
| to Spartan 35 years ago?" or some other such. I always
use
| my real name, Google for "James H. Macklin" (use the
quotes)
| and I'm not the Ph.D from California.
|
|
| "Juan Jimenez" wrote in message
| om...
|| And we have your name. Guess which one more people will
| remember?
||
|| "Jim Macklin"
wrote
| in message
|| news:FdCUf.454$t22.144@dukeread08...
|| Then you answered the question, IF you really had a
| complete
|| repair and the A&P did make a "return to service"
entry.
| If
|| he did all that and you did a test flight [you really
| should
|| not have carried a passenger, which the A&P would be]
| and
|| made the pilot's return to service after test flight,
| then
|| what was your question, should you have just flown it
| away
|| without any work/inspection or repair?
||
|| As for your family, my comment was about your judgment,
| if
|| you want to substitute three strangers from the beach,
|| that's fine with me.
||
||
|| BTW, since some FAA types read these groups, they have
| your
|| N number.
||
||
||
|| "Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
||
|
ups.com...
|| | Was it repaired and completely inspected or were
more
|| | repairs done on return to the USA? The indications
| that
|| I
|| | had from the thread was that more
| repairs/inspections
|| were
|| | done on the airplane after it returned to the US.
| Yet
|| you
|| | carried your family after major repairs caused by
|| damage.
|| |
|| | Quoting from the original post "I was able to call an
| A&P
|| to come down
|| | to Mexico and swap it for me." Sadly, the other
Mooney
|| owners wants his
|| | back (go figure) so yes, more repairs were also done
| back
|| home (like
|| | ordering a factory new aileron for me, paint etc).
| Yes it
|| was
|| | inspected in Mexico by the A&P doing the work and all
| wing
|| panels
|| | relevant to aileron control were removed before the
| A&P
|| got in the
|| | plane with me and we performed the test flight. I
| honestly
|| don't know
|| | what else to do with regard to inspection other than
|| having had the A&P
|| | look at it. I could ask Mooney if they want to send
an
|| engineer down
|| | but I don't think that is going to happen.
|| |
|| | Jim, I'm still highly offended by your comment about
| my
|| family.
|| |
|| | -Robert
|| |
||
||
||
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