panamared3(at)brier.net
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 Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:35 pm Post subject: List Police at it Again |
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Do you deserve to hold the FAA Repairman Certificate for your airplane if
you don't know how to gap your spark plugs?
I'm not saying a hard yes or no, just playing devil's advocate.
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Well, let me see If I get this right. Maybe we should have some sort of
test before we get an FAA Repairman Certificate. Maybe that test should
be, I don't know... how about, yes that is it...build an airplane. What a
test??!
In my case, I held the FAA repairman certificate for three years before I
ever gapped a spark plug??! I never considered gapping a spark plug a
critical skill to be an FAA Repairman.
Every year during the conditional inspection I had my local FAA A&P IA
(remember those guys) clean inspect and gap the plugs and do a compression
check. Why, because he had the tools and equipment to do it and I did
not. Now I have the tools. So I do it.
Yes, I did have numerous questions on how to use the tool and how to gap
the plugs. And worst of all the gapper I bought was too large to gap my
plugs. Maybe if someone had warned me on the list before I bought the
wrong tool things would have gone smoother. But, foolishly, I did not ask
the question, I didn't want my FAA Repairman Certificate yanked by the RV
List Police.
It is too late to yank my certificate now, because I now know how to gap
the plugs. HA!!
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