Burning off fuel

[cherry20's]

I would just call it "seating the pads". Had to do it on 172's and such to "burn" off the paint on new rotors. Never heard of it on any jets though. It makes sense in the smaller Cessna jets I guess. Thanks for the response though.

 

[LJPilot]

Has anybody heard what happened with the NJA jet?

 

[gunfyter]

Yeah. Its flying.

 

[cldsfr79]

From what I understand the plane was down for MX. They were working on the brake lines do to a leak, I'm not sure if they replaced the brakes or not or were just working the brake lines looking for leaks.

Are we done now?

(NJA procedures for fuel burn off requries the plane to be stationary and chocked.)

 

[o2bflyn]

Are we done now?

Relax.

 

[ozpilot]

The only time I've ever done a brake burn in the X is when the FO called "80 knots" and I suddenly realized I left my crew food at the FBO . Happy Holidays everyone.

 

[LJPilot]

You joke, but I know of someone who aborted because he forgot his favorite coffee mug on the FBO counter. He was fired the next day after the passengers complained.

 

[ozpilot]

You joke, but I know of someone who aborted because he forgot his favorite coffee mug on the FBO counter. He was fired the next day after the passengers complained.

As he should have been ...

 

[rettofly]

Brake Burns

Newly installed steel brakes require a burn in to remove a coating and fit the pad and disk, so I hear. Mx has a checklist for the flightcrew and it dictates how many high speed taxi/brake applications are required.

We used to do one run - accelerate to 80 KIAS, hammer the brakes ro a stop, taxi back to the ramp and have Mx sign it off.

 

[Dr Pepper]

I think he was talking about the high speed taxi the X is well known for.

This is often done when the X is in MX for a nose wheel shimmy.

 

[o2bflyn]

You joke, but I know of someone who aborted because he forgot his favorite coffee mug on the FBO counter. He was fired the next day after the passengers complained.

That's what Fedex is for....