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Roger Lee
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 Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 5:46 pm Post subject: Is my hangar door just waiting for me to be complacent? |
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Hi All,
Is my hangar door just waiting for me to be complacent? (Yes it is!)
Another recent incident has prompted me to throw this out for review.
Just wanted to touch bases with everyone concerning our hangar doors. Over the last couple of years too many people have shut their hangar doors on their plane. Usually the tail and a few wings. That means we are leaving our planes way too close to the door edge whether it be on the inside, but usually these incidents happen when the plane is on the outside of the door.
When I was on the Fire Department there were many door accidents as the truck would pull out. You can imagine what something the size of a fire truck can do to a large garage type door. The cost to the department was hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So a policy was written. The door is either on 12" off the ground and open for air movement or it was all the way open. Nothing in between. The truck was either all the way in the apparatus bay or it was all the way out. No one was allowed to touch the close button until the truck was way out of the station or parked inside. Failure to follow these rules led to a one day suspension and damage to another door or vehicle was much longer.
The point of this is to make everyone take notice that their plane should never be parked half way in or out of the hangar or very close to any door. If it is an electric hangar door it has a certain amount of angle that it protrudes as it opens.
These hangar accidents has cost many thousands of dollars and I hope this little article helps someone from having this type of accident again. Even if the insurance pays for this incident the repair work and logistics is a royal pain.
If I have to have something that crosses the door threshold then I trip the electrical breakers so there is no power to the door and it can't move.
Don't get suspended keep your attention focused and your plane at a safe distance from the hangar door. 
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:14 pm Post subject: Is my hanger door just waiting for me to be complacent? |
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Roger
I do love your posts, and I always learn something with them, but forgive me if I have to make a correction to this last one:
- “hanger” is where one can hang something
- “hangar” is where we can put our airplanes in
Carlos
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