Hey lawnmower driver
- Thread starter Wingboy
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There's guys that will come to you in a mobile shop with a brake and all the necessary tools to bang out and rivet in a patch/patches.
They got off lucky. Now it would probably be close to that for the paperwork to detail the approved repair and then you still have to pay someone to implement it.
That’s one mighty tall lawnmower….
Safety police strike again. Probably ROPs. Like a hardhat, it would have cleared without protection but the added protection makes you taller and you hit all sorts of things.
I dabbled in this work VERY briefly in another lifetime. Even so, the things I saw would give you pause to board a commercial airline, nevermind this smaller GA stuff.
Rivet smiley's on pressurized skin? Just paint over it.
Cross threaded bolt? It'll hold, removing it is the next guy's problem.
Nevermind that half the guys probably couldn't read the Maintenance Manual, you couldn't find one in the shop anyway - "we do it this way because that's how we've always done it!"
Rivet smiley's on pressurized skin? Just paint over it.
Cross threaded bolt? It'll hold, removing it is the next guy's problem.
Nevermind that half the guys probably couldn't read the Maintenance Manual, you couldn't find one in the shop anyway - "we do it this way because that's how we've always done it!"
Then there are the ones that build them. Drill a small hole in a fuel tank and plug it with gum. It passes the water leak test but fails when assembled into a wing and loaded with fuel.
sburns
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I don't get it either, what lawnmowers has to do with a airplane crash. Must be either some kind of airplane reference or a joke I don't get.
Probably a lawnmower cutting the airport and banged the plane.
It's a grass runway and a lawnmower with a rollbar.
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Looks like a Port Colborne problem to me.
Lawnmowers are almost never a problem when flying in and out of an airport that is paved....
Lawnmowers are almost never a problem when flying in and out of an airport that is paved....
Even with paved runways, some airports have some plane parking spots on the grass. I havent been around during lawn cutting to see how these are dealt with.
The operator obviously wasn't paying attention, and should never have been that close to a "running" aircraft. It will never happen again. The owner (aircraft and mower) was in the aircraft at the time running up the engine. He was VERY angry.
Relax
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A 186 Cessna isn't very high. It was just a big riding mower with a tall rollbar.
