redbaron1982

Mine has a strikefinder, but I never thought the static wicks were just for that. I thought flying IMC could build up static and affects COMs/NAVs radios.

This is one is another one that seems way overprices. I'm missing 4 or 5... that $250... crazy

These are the covers I make, they are for ETA switches (like the ones I have on my '85 J Model)

Actually, that was the objective. There is a thread on the Accident sub forum about using tank vent covers to prevent insects from nesting inside. @201er is of the opinion that it would cause more accidents than the ones it would prevent, and then this poll was created to "find out" if that's true. The funny thing is that the poll assumes that everyone forgets something, so there is no option to "I never forgot to remove a RBF tag". So technically it won't give any useful information to know if it is better to have protect the tank vents, risking forgetting to remove the tag, or leaving it unprotected, risking a bug getting inside and clogging it.

My last item on the checklist before boarding is "Final walk around". Having said that, the main challenge is being "present" while doing the final walk around. It happened a couple of times that I did it on "autopilot" and could have missed one or two things. So far, knock on wood, I never took off with a red sign hanging from the airplane.

AFAIK the larger the air volume in the tank, the more fuel you can pull before the internal vacuum gets so high that the fuel pump can not longer pump fuel out of the tank.

How y'all preflight the fuel tank vents? I usually just look to see that there is nothing clogging them at the tip, but doesn't make me feel good that there could be a bug or something that crawl inside and I can't see. I thought about using a small bulb syringe, not to blow buck suck air and check that there is good air flow. Not sure if this would generate any unwanted side effects.

Yeah, looks like he was fixated to returning to IWS... 11R was closer and he would have made the field. 11R has a nice asphalt runway, I landed there several times while doing my training. Anyway, it is easy to find the best course of action when seating in a chair in front of a computer, lol. Great job by the pilot!

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/562249

Does anyone has more info?

Thanks all for the answers, one clarification, just in case, the first pictures are really zoomed in. I'd say the large particles are maybe 1mm or 2mm at most.

The main reason why I am starting this thread is the tragic accident of @Freddb34. Every now and then, when I swamp my tanks I get some amount of debris. The attached pictures are from today. It's not always there, today's was more on the high amount of debris for instance, most of the times is lower or none at all. My question is, is this normal? Should I take any actions? My airplane is a J model from 1985, no bladders, tanks seal several years. No seapage, more than one of the sump ports getting stained from a veeery slow leak.

It did affect me a bunch, but I didn't let it knock me off my horse.

I stand corrected, the repairs were 28k, there was an additional 2.5k for painting the repaired areas. The annual itself (no repairs) was 3k. Then there were 6k of random items, like a wheelen power supply they had to change.

So, as the airplane was so long waiting to be repaired, the annual lapsed. So I asked Don to do the annual after the finished the repair. Roughly, the cost was: 25k corrosion repair, 12k annual. The initial estimate for just the corrosion repair was 13k.