RightPedal
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- Jul 7, 2002
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I was ramp checked once in Florida by the most beautiful redhead girl you ever saw.
She checked my papers and then started an inspection of my airplane. She grounded me for two items. One, the N-number was double black line as if it were applied with black electrical tape. It wasn't, they were painted on. She said they were finding aircraft in Florida with numbers done in tape so they could be changed for dope runs.
She then found one rivet on the right wing tip that she said was an automotive type rivet and that made the airplane un-airworthy.
I won on the rivet thing but they made me fix the numbers even though they were painted on.
The guy with her said he wanted to be sure that I understood that they weren't pushing me around. They were doing their job to keep my privilege to operate in the aviation system safe.
She checked my papers and then started an inspection of my airplane. She grounded me for two items. One, the N-number was double black line as if it were applied with black electrical tape. It wasn't, they were painted on. She said they were finding aircraft in Florida with numbers done in tape so they could be changed for dope runs.
She then found one rivet on the right wing tip that she said was an automotive type rivet and that made the airplane un-airworthy.
I won on the rivet thing but they made me fix the numbers even though they were painted on.
The guy with her said he wanted to be sure that I understood that they weren't pushing me around. They were doing their job to keep my privilege to operate in the aviation system safe.
