Ramp Checked:eek:

[JediNein]

Being completely ignorant of things MU-2, leaking fuel sumps are usually a piece of debris caught in the seal. In piston products, rapid opening and closing the valve with the fuel tester usually fixes the problem. Otherwise it can be a miserable repair job depending on the type of fuel tanks.

Fly SAFE!
Jedi Nein

 

[kilomike]

I never have been ramped as a general aviation pilot. However when I flew for a 135 operator, I was ramped once. It was a license and medical thing. Once again, when I was with a 121 it also was a license and medical thing and the inspector spent more time with the captain since she was a maintenance inspector. Neither time stood out much in my memory, so it took a minute for me to remember whether I'd been ramped. Wish more Feds were as unremarkable as these were.

fly safe,
kilomike

 

[waka]

cl-65link

This is why a GA Fed should stick to airplanes with reciprocating engines and let the 121/135 Feds handle the "big" airplanes.

Just a small point of order;

There are still reciprocating engined aircraft being operated under 135 and 121 (DC-3's, Convairs etc.)

 

[LR25]

Been ramped twice in 13 years.

Once 135, once 121.

I also have been "Ramped" once as a mechanic when I used to work for a scumbag 121 freighter.

It was on a DC-8, all he came up with is that I had a screw missing out of an engine pylon. I'm thinking thinking, yea right. I could have closed my eyes and come up with more than that.

This guy didnt know what he was even looking at.

LR25

 

[Vrefus]

Been ramped four times in the last two months. Never a problem. Certificate is laminated, they never said a word about it. Never have sweated one either, as long as everything is in order.

 

[cessna_driver2]

I worked Line service at RVS and a DC-3 came in late one night. The FED's showed up checked the plane out and wanted to see the pilots around 7 in the morning. Unluckly the pilots were resting up in our Pilot lounge.

 

[aggiepilot87]

Been ramped twice in 13 years.
It was on a DC-8... I had a screw missing out of an engine pylon. LR25

Out of the pylon!? kind of makes me think of DC-10's and engines falling off... guess it was a sheet metal screw.

 

[hagen]

Hey Cessna did you work for Christiansen at RVS? I played many games of pool there flying for OU!!(Go Sooners) Also ate too many cookies as well

 

[LR25]

Douglas

Well, heres the thing about Douglases.

They are built like tanks.

The fastners on the pylons are Douglas fastners, I forget what they even call them, but anyway the pylon structure are a structure all to themselves, one of the toughest parts of the airplane.

You could have half of the fastners missing and it wouldnt have an impact on them.

Long live the douglasoures.