What is a Dead Weight tester?
Checks hydraulic pressure GAUGES/SWITCHES
off and on at certain pressures
30-40psi
What is a green tag and who can sign it?
Serviceable
AMO/AME
What is a red tag and who can sign it?
Un-Serviceable
Anyone
What happens to a part that has a red tag?
Quarantine stores
2 types of break bleeding?
Gravity and Pressure
Pressure brake bleeding?
Air expelled from brake system reservoir
Gravity brake bleeding?
Air expelled thru brake system thru bleeder valve to brake assembly
Type of Engine in Cessna 172?
High wing
Lycoming 320
Type of Engine in Seneca Piper?
Low wing
Continental TSIO
Type of Engine in Bell 206?
Alison 250 Turbine
What are the Primary Flight Controls?
Elevator (Pitch)
Aileron (Roll)
Rudder (Yaw)
How often do you do a compass swing?
Once a year or New instrument or Hard landing
What is the trim tabs purpose?
Hands free flight
neutralizes the force required to keep control surfaces in a specific position
Battery operation, what do you remove first and attach last?
Red black black red
add WATER first
What should you never mix with Oxygen?
Grease
If the Elevator goes up, what happens to the Trim Tab?
OPPOSITE
How do you check for Leaks?
After bleeding.
With breaks ON
How do you check for Leaks?
Soapy Water
How can air get into the breaks?
Tube connectors/Joints
Goodyear Brake?
Moving disc
Rigid caliper
Cleveland Brake?
Fixed disc
Moving caliper
Jet Blast Radius?
25ft from INTAKE
100ft at IDLE
200ft on THROTTLE
What is a power pack?
Multiple hydraulic components for landing gear
Purpose of fuel cap vents?
Positive header pressure
When do we put Nitrogen when servicing OLEO?
OFF jacks (3 inches)
When putting in fluid when do we do it?
ON jacks
What is the knot called?
BOWLINE
Runway active lights?
Steady Green: Cleared for Takeoff Flashing Green: Cleared to Taxi Steady Red: STOP Flashing Red: Clearing Taxiing runway Flashing White: Return to starting point Alternating: Exercise Extreme Caution
CO2 landing gear is used when?
Backup hand pump fails
How often do we do a PITOT static test?
24 months
How often does the test unit get calibrated?
yearly
Pitot leak rate?
2knots/min
Static leak rate ?
100ft/min
What should you set your ALTIMETER at prior to testing?
Local altitude/feet elevation
1000’ above ft elevation
If you have balance tabs on your AILERONS airplane wants to be right wing heavy what should you do?
Lift up the heavy wing
Purpose of MACABE paste?
Turns pink when touches water
Compass swing is in reference to what?
MAGNETIC north
What are the AILERON control surfaces?
30 up
15 down
What are the ELEVATOR control surfaces?
20 up
15 down
What are the RUDDER control surfaces?
30 right/left
What is the rudder TRIM TAB control surface?
25 right/left
What are the FLAP control surfaces?
50 DOWN
First thing you do when doing a PITOT STATIC test?
make sure all valves are closed
What do we set Pressure to?
15 PSI
What do we set vacuum to?
25” Hg
What do we measure a WRIST PIN BOSS with?
Telescoping gauge
Micrometer
What do we measure a PISTON SKIRT with?
Micrometer
What spins with the bearings?
Bearing cup