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Planes Are Loaded with Useless Equipment - About Failures Training

March 24, 2008 - Flying Tips No Comments →

Any piece of equipment on board can fail at any time, and all pilots train, to be ready to cope with any failure. This picture has been taken by a passenger while my instructor decided it was time to practice landings with no air-speed indicator.
Years after this training session, I think it’s easy to cope […]

FAA issues emergency AD on Thielert engines - Fleet is partly grounded

March 15, 2008 - Modern Aviation No Comments →

I already posted a lot here about the reliability of the Thielert 125 engines. A new episode in this already long story took place on the 12th of March, when the FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive requesting: “Before the next flight, install a new high-pressure fuel line and a high-pressure fuel line
bracket”.
This does not […]

Trust the FADEC… but monitor it

May 02, 2007 - Modern Aviation 1 Comment →

Sorry Thielert boys, but as any system, your contains some flaws. I will not put apart my “Plastic Evangelist” cap, or deny all what I wrote before, but will just report here a problem I had.
This happend after taking of from a 3500ft AMSL mountain airport. During climb, we (I say we because I was […]