thinwing

All these fancy words is too brain stretchy,can’t we have a dirty jokes section or maybe a daily Marauder calender girl?

Lodi (Acampo)airport is privately owned and has a very busy skydiving operation.The actual drop zone is on extreme south side and is a well watered foot ball field.The surrounding country side is full of grape arbors (vineyards) and the common use rebar stakes to prop up the vines.Skydivers seem to kill them selves Two ways (and no not the obvious chute malfunction) it’s cranking in a high speed turn low to the ground the infamous “hook” turn and landing out and misjudging vine rows and getting speared with a rebar stake.

Also it appears alt gear mounting bolts and flanges Are completely missing.What Clarence is suggesting is those gear mount threaded holes in the crankshaft are beat up

I think if during overhaul,crank bearings can be ordered undersized..I see aircraft specialties carries 010 undersized bearing kits and it appears that crank gear is replaceable if 4 mounting holes aren’t too screwed up.That would at least save a 10 k crank.

This why when I had an alternator failure on the left engine of my Baron ,I shut the engine down ...this is a typical worst case alternator bearing failure.On Beech products..part of preventive maintance is to pull the alternator (fortunately easy access)about every 500 hrs I recall.As others have suggested ,there will be metal contamination thru our the engine.I don’t recall on the 550 if that gear is replaceable or not but during the tear down ,if the bearing surfaces on the crank and cam are scored enough,than they are toast.Ive seen an continental io520 that by luck survived this same event ...but right know you have to assume every component including prop and governor is Fowled with metal chips.So sorry for the bad news ,but your engine could have failed catastrophically over the alps next.

I was 5 sitting on my dads lap “helping “to fly Aeronica 15 AC sedan on straight floats...the rest is just money

Having been on both sides of fence (250 jumps)a new operation will probably start small using Cessna 206 equipment than on to stripped interior kingairs or twin otters.Weekends are busiest or when they are having a jump boogie or contest.Typically jump altitudes are 13 k with twin otter loads arriving and departing opposite directions...landings are very aggressive alitude loss affairs to quickly arrive back up loading area...it’s the actual landing zone off to the side..a football field sized area off to the side with jumpers typically flying a downwind,base,final pattern at 600- 1000 altthat impact the airport the most.Jumpers deploying their chute too low and a jumper is quickly counseled (yelled at)for low openings.Snd time he is kicked off the drop zone for the day.Local pilots can be occasionally asked to fly arround to locate cutaways (expensive main chutes)...for nice reward.

Unfortunately that’s what I’ve gotten out of continental cylinders...

Brad ,thanks for posting pics...now imagine that same flight at night

A nice thought ,but in a training environment student to instructor ,a lot to ask...I tend to agree with gsxr unless he is the last CFI on the planet

You forgot about Alaska

Ok I now know what a contrarian CFI is

He was too busy congratulating himself...finger waving ,excessive yak for the camera..broke out in xstream attitude...prob with his rear passengers screaming

Maybe yetti ment his CFI voted for the other guy

What is actually a contrarian attitude?Do you mean he is just a jerk?.