Flashlight
Herman
I too found a flashlight (a square LED type) in a wing bay while
doing an annual. It got left there when doing an upgrade to the servo
on the aileron, so the flashlight was in a dangerous place. I discovered
it because I was using my handy-dandy Harbor frieght borescope to inspect
the tight places as part of the annual.
There was no flight incident, but it could have easily jammed the ailerons...and not necessisarily in level flight!
I try hard to take my Annual Inspections very seriously, knowing that what I
find may have been there for a long time waiting to bite me.
Jim Frisbie
RV-9A 350 hrs.
Herman
I too found a flashlight (a square LED type) in a wing bay while
doing an annual. It got left there when doing an upgrade to the servo
on the aileron, so the flashlight was in a dangerous place. I discovered
it because I was using my handy-dandy Harbor frieght borescope to inspect
the tight places as part of the annual.
There was no flight incident, but it could have easily jammed the ailerons...and not necessisarily in level flight!
I try hard to take my Annual Inspections very seriously, knowing that what I
find may have been there for a long time waiting to bite me.
Jim Frisbie
RV-9A 350 hrs.