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06-23-2005, 06:08 AM
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#91 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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06-23-2005, 09:47 AM
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#92 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | We had a pilot leave his pitot cover on one time when he was doing some tests on the aircraft without a crewchief and he turned the pitot anti ice on and it melted the cover to the tube. It was bad, very very bad.
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06-23-2005, 10:02 AM
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#93 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet We had a pilot leave his pitot cover on one time when he was doing some tests on the aircraft without a crewchief and he turned the pitot anti ice on and it melted the cover to the tube. It was bad, very very bad. | I've actually seem them catch fire! 
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06-23-2005, 10:57 AM
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#94 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Damn, I would hate to be the guy that pulls that one off.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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06-23-2005, 11:52 AM
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#95 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Country: | Most of it flaked off, it really burnt up the "Remove Before Flight" flag. One of the other pilots saved the remanents and put it in the pilot's drawer who turned on the pitot heater later that week.
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06-23-2005, 03:10 PM
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#96 | | Master of Ewes
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it really burnt up the "Remove Before Flight" flag
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06-23-2005, 04:56 PM
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#97 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass Quote: |
it really burnt up the "Remove Before Flight" flag
| | Oh it was great, a "Remove before flight" flag burning on the side of a P-3! You should of seen the look on the pilot's face when he saw it, then he tried to blame the maintainers. There was a squadron SOP that stated whoever turned on the pitot heat was responsible to ensure the covers were removed!
Pilots! Officers! What do they know! 
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06-24-2005, 02:00 PM
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#98 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Everything that is used to cover or plug something on the aircraft has a "Remove Before Flight" flag on it. We get safety reports from across the Army on aviation accidents and such not and the funny one we got the other day was a crew that took off to a 30ft. hover in a UH-60L Blackhawk. At 30ft. both engine TGT's spiked really high and they immediatly set the aircraft down with any incident or injury to crew. Uppon inspecition of the aircraft it was discovered that both Engine Inlet Plugs with "Remove Before Flight" flags on them were still plugged into the Engine Inlets!
No **** this happened. I could not stop laughing and wondering what idiot would do something like this.
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06-24-2005, 02:03 PM
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#99 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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06-24-2005, 02:22 PM
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#100 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | What I really want to know is how they got to a 30ft Hover without noticing anything. They should have noticed it while on initial run up when the TGT was not right.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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06-25-2005, 01:36 AM
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#101 | | Master of Ewes
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06-25-2005, 08:56 AM
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#102 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Oh well stupid is as stupid does.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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06-27-2005, 11:49 PM
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#103 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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06-28-2005, 07:31 AM
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#104 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Very good point. That is part of the preflight and infact it even says in the checklist to remove that stuff even though it says in big white letters on a red flag "Remove Before Flight".
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06-28-2005, 08:04 AM
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#105 | | Senior Member
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Country: | I remember an airliner from Argentina (I think it was) went down in the '90s because the aircraft cleaners had left the pitot covered while she was cleaning it. It never got taken off and the pilot had no information from his instruments, it got stormy, the pilot couldn't see and it went into the sea. 
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