On 14/06/2011 08:42, Darryl Ramm wrote:

Or just any paperwork. I should have been clearer in my post. If the
reality was there was no paperwork - no log book entry at all. Then
the FAA folks are just doing their job by requiring the mirrors be
removed.

Strange country. If the mirrors were working fine and had been working
fine for some time, and had caused no problems in flight or in any other
way, then the FAA folk would be doing their job by asking the installer
to write up some paperwork.

"...requiring the mirrors be removed" is such an over the top,
bureaucratic approach to a non-problem I can't believe anybody sees it
as "doing their job". After all, it's not as if its a video camera
installed to allow the pilot to take pictures of himself while in flight
or some equally senseless addition. Mirrors on tugs are fundamental
safety devices installed to stop accidents and save lives.

How does it come to this, that requiring mirrors be removed from a tug
because there's no paperwork is seen as right and proper.

Madness.

GC

If the person installing them was properly qualified and made
the required log book entry for a minor modification then it will be
interesting if the FSDO says nope this is indeed a major mod. Who
really knows exactly what happened here? Is there any issue worth
worrying about at all? Or are we just wasting bandwidth?

Darryl