FIKI

Flew myself and 2 coworkers to Chicago yesterday for a business meeting. Weather at 6am had icing forecast for 60 miles along our direct route of flight. We were flying a FIKI airplane and departed due south so that we could get out of the area of clouds in closer to 15-20 miles. Airliners that departed ahead of us had no pireps for...

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Amsafe Inflater Replacement Time

We recently released Service Advisory SA12-01 that clarifies the inflator assembly replacement interval for the Amsafe inflatable air bags. The replacement interval for the inflators has been increased from 7 years to 10 years. The electronic module assembly remained unchanged and must be refurbished at 7 years and replaced at 14 yea...

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Alt 2 Winter Update

Recently looking back, I noticed that I haven't updated the blog about our Alt 2's since this post in October. As I mentioned in that post, In late 2010, the alternator vendor made several changes. Those were all implemented in the 'k' (2011) date code alternators. Those alternators hit our factory floor and field replacements in the march...

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