Hi,
I have discovered a dent / deflection on my empennage. This is a flying airplane (70+ hours) that just went into the paint shop. I am trying to gauge the severity and what, if anything, I should do about it. The painter says no big deal, he can make it go away. But is it a structural issue I should address?
It is a little difficult to see in the real and less so in photo. I attach several photos.
- Location: I outlined the area with marker and brackets. The dots are marker as well.
- Deflection: This photo is probably the best view of the skin distortion – towards the bottom left of the photo. There is no matching distortion on the right side, leading me to believe hangar rash as the cause rather than a flying issue (and I have no recollection of this occurring....).
- Detail: I tried to show how big a deflection. While the Deflection photo shows a clear change in the surface, a straight edge across the deflection does not show the difference in the photo. With the eye, there is a faint glimmer from behind the rule but not shown on the photo. I am guessing a couple of thousands is the depth of the valley.
I appreciate any thoughts.
Thanks
I have discovered a dent / deflection on my empennage. This is a flying airplane (70+ hours) that just went into the paint shop. I am trying to gauge the severity and what, if anything, I should do about it. The painter says no big deal, he can make it go away. But is it a structural issue I should address?
It is a little difficult to see in the real and less so in photo. I attach several photos.
- Location: I outlined the area with marker and brackets. The dots are marker as well.
- Deflection: This photo is probably the best view of the skin distortion – towards the bottom left of the photo. There is no matching distortion on the right side, leading me to believe hangar rash as the cause rather than a flying issue (and I have no recollection of this occurring....).
- Detail: I tried to show how big a deflection. While the Deflection photo shows a clear change in the surface, a straight edge across the deflection does not show the difference in the photo. With the eye, there is a faint glimmer from behind the rule but not shown on the photo. I am guessing a couple of thousands is the depth of the valley.
I appreciate any thoughts.
Thanks