A disappointing day today. The aircraft that we 'broke' yesterday is still in the hangar being fixed. In case you are interested, a failed shuttle valve was the main culprit. The shuttle valve directs hydraulic fluid in one of two directions (for raising and lowering the gear, respectively) and since the careful reader will have noticed yesterday that the gear was still retracting under hydraulics, you may have already worked out that the 'down' side of the shuttle valve must be the problem. Top marks if you did.
Anyway, in addition to being one aircraft down, the weather also got worse as the day wore on, so although another aircraft was available later, there was no flying today.
Gary and I did some more book work and practiced our take-off and airfield approach drills in the simulator, so at least it felt like we were student pilots.
The weather for tomorrow looks no better, with poor viz (visibility, in pilot speak!) all day.
We shall see...
1 comment:
bad hydraulics and poor weather must be a real hazard.Hope the weather doesn't interfere with my golf. it's so much easier ondry land my buggy has wheels.
John
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