Aviation Safety

Folding Cessna Legs

The following information is derived from the FAAs Service Difficulty Reports and Aviation Maintenance Alerts. Click here to view February ADs.

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The FAA is reminding owners of retractable-gear Cessna single-engine airplanes of problems that may arise in the main landing gear actuators of retractable-gear 172s, 182s and all 210s.

Cessna service bulletin SEB01-2 specifies inspections, modifications and replacements that should be made to maintain the integrity of the actuator housings. The NTSB has issued two Safety Recommendations on this issue, but the FAA has so far declined to make the service bulletin into an AD.

Aero…

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Unicom 04/02: Name Droppers

Ive noticed the syndrome of name-dropping sneaking into your articles lately. I was reminded of it again in Flying in Ice [Weather Tactics, October]. The article led with Indy racer Tony Bettenhausen going down in his Baron 58, but his name is mentioned only in that opening line; for the next three pages he is referred to only as the pilot.
One can only presume he is mentioned merely to hook the reader – a pretty cheap practice for a serious publication. Do readers really need such prompting?
Isnt accident investigation supposed to be about what went wrong, not who went wrong?
I can only imagine the articles I must have overlooked during the past year:
* Autorotations…

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