Just Schmidt
Senior Airman
I think we need to practice all this shifting around, it's not as easy as it seems.
Luckily I found this moving stuff around simulator:
Luckily I found this moving stuff around simulator:
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Zero Hour in turn is based on Flight into Danger, a CBC made for TV movie staring James Doohan in the Ted Stryker Type role.
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All that is needed, then, would be to move the ground down a little in back.I think the uneven ground makes the CoG problem look worse.
Almost done. To get the cockpit dividers out, you first had to remove the forward row of seats.I'm not sure what configuration your Kingairs had, but the ones I worked on required the galley and cockpit dividers to be removed in order to slide the cockpit seats out of the seat rails.
Almost done. To get the cockpit dividers out, you first had to remove the forward row of seats.
BUT, to do that, it meant sliding them as far aft as possible to get room between the seat skirt and cockpit divider, to expose the seat rail enough to pop the seat out. Every little task always seemed to be a struggle with those things.
And then there is the damned bathtub fitting inspection and torque check, which sucked, or trying to secure the bladder tank in the nacelle. The damned clips where ALWAYS just out of reach, unless you were King Kong.
Sorry, rant more or less over.
All that is needed, then, would be to move the ground down a little in back.
I'm not that great at math, but it seems that pushing the hillside down about 2 feet (.6m) would do the trick?
Never been inside a D, but in our Bs and Cs removing cockpit seats was apparently no big deal, as the guys got it done pretty quickly. Our seats were not the palatial thrones you see in high end corporate King Airs. Think C47 passenger seats.1900Ds have a lot more room than a King Air 350. Its much easier to remove the cockpit seats in a 1900D.
Not to mention ATTITUDE.And it helps in the air too -- a -39 needs all the altitude it can get.
Never been inside a D, but in our Bs and Cs removing cockpit seats was apparently no big deal, as the guys got it done pretty quickly. Our seats were not the palatial thrones you see in high end corporate King Airs. Think C47 passenger seats.
In a forward entryway 1900 it's so much easier. Nothing jammed up against the cockpit dividers and no need to remove them.Almost done. To get the cockpit dividers out, you first had to remove the forward row of seats.
BUT, to do that, it meant sliding them as far aft as possible to get room between the seat skirt and cockpit divider, to expose the seat rail enough to pop the seat out. Every little task always seemed to be a struggle with those things.
Hey, what happened to the Hammer of Justice? It's missing from the tool room! Can't find it anywhere. Open and inspect all components we've worked on this shift! Nothing goes out the door til we find it!
Have the new guys do it.Hey, what happened to the Hammer of Justice? It's missing from the tool room! Can't find it anywhere. Open and inspect all components we've worked on this shift! Nothing goes out the door til we find it!
Hey, what happened to the Hammer of Justice? It's missing from the tool room! Can't find it anywhere. Open and inspect all components we've worked on this shift! Nothing goes out the door til we find it!
Hey, what happened to the Hammer of Justice? It's missing from the tool room! Can't find it anywhere. Open and inspect all components we've worked on this shift! Nothing goes out the door til we find it!
Have the new guys do it.
And don't forget the prop wash!They can fetch up a spool of flight line and some squelch oil while they're at it.