Hey Y’all
Does anybody know the reason for the Tutor fleet being grounded…again?
[quote]Email sent out by our WExO from our local AEF OC
Today at Cranwell they discovered a control restriction on a Tutor aircraft. Accordingly, we are all grounded until engineering analysis and a solution has been worked through. I do not expect this to be achieved this weekend as the control runs and inspection panels in the Tutor are not placed in ergonomically easy juxtaposition. [/quote]
" the control runs and inspection panels in the Tutor are not placed in ergonomically easy juxtaposition."
The kinda thing you look for in an aeroplane when reviewing applications to a tender you’d have thought.
Just put up on ACO Announcements on Bader:
[quote]Tutor flying can resume with immediate effect
3FTS have informed HQ Air Cadets that AEF tutor flying can resume with immediate effect[/quote]
How convenient - just for the weekend when we were due to fly :oops: :oops:
What on earth is going on with the aircraft used / owned by the Air Cadet Organisation?
Is it all just an unfortunate coincidence?
5432G,
In the case of the Vigilant it was an airworthiness directive published by the EASA after a fault had been found in a single G109B on the continent. The aircraft was routinely left outside rather than hangared and- surprise surprise- water had ingressed and damaged the elevator control rod. Since the Vigilants are probably the most coddled aircraft in Europe, we didn’t have a problem. It was just an over-abundance of caution, really.
[quote=“nmm62” post=288]Just put up on ACO Announcements on Bader:
[quote]Tutor flying can resume with immediate effect
3FTS have informed HQ Air Cadets that AEF tutor flying can resume with immediate effect[/quote][/quote]
I was going to say how typical it was that they put up an announcement like that, but that I never saw anything (other than the first post here) to say that they’d been grounded in the first place…
…except that, now that I look…I can’t see that ‘resume’ announcement either. :blink:
I see nothing since the H&S newsletter on 8/11/12
The last people to know anything are the drain sniffers. The warning went out on Friday afternoon- pretty much the usual time for engineers to send out word when the people using the aircraft will be doing so on weekends. :blink:
[quote=“wdimagineer2b” post=301][quote=“nmm62” post=288]Just put up on ACO Announcements on Bader:
[quote]Tutor flying can resume with immediate effect
3FTS have informed HQ Air Cadets that AEF tutor flying can resume with immediate effect[/quote][/quote]
I was going to say how typical it was that they put up an announcement like that, but that I never saw anything (other than the first post here) to say that they’d been grounded in the first place…
…except that, now that I look…I can’t see that ‘resume’ announcement either. :blink:
I see nothing since the H&S newsletter on 8/11/12[/quote]
That ( the H&S newsletter ) is in the “Site Announcements”, you need to click the “ACO Announcements” at the top of the page.
Thank you. I love the way they ‘hide’ these damn things… 
[quote=“5432golf” post=291]
Is it all just an unfortunate coincidence?[/quote]
Coincidence. If someone feels there is an issue, it needs investigating. Thankfully this one was an easy one to solve.
There’s almost a justification for the making of an ‘AEFSTATE GREEN’ / ‘AEFSTATE RED’ icon in Bader…that could be repeat-reported out onto ACC. And maybe an ‘AEGSTATE’ one as well…just thinking aloud.
wilf_san