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| I have been very busy of recent times ( unfortunately not building my helo ) and have just caught up on reading my issues of EHM. One article prompted me to write this post, that is Orv's article "Is It Safe To Fly" ( March 2010 ), this article really caused me some sole searching I've got to say. The thing I love about Experimental aicraft is the lack of "over-regulation" that can be summed up as: "You are welcome to kill yourself. just don't kill anyone else".
However, Orv's article caused me to wonder if there are some people who shouldn't be allowed to build an experimental helicopter !! If you can't drill a hole that is square to a tube, or worse still. can't notice that is not square after you've drilled it and put a bolt in it, maybe you should have started with assembling a few IKEA garden sets or something first ??
As I said, it has caused me a bit of sole seaching as the last thing I want to see is repressive regulation come into our sport, but for Orv to find nearly 100 issues on one machine (that has actually flown !! ) is unbelievable. OK - I'm spoiled in this respect in that I have been building stuff since I was 10 years old, under the eye of my father, who was a stickler for doing things properly; and I have been running an engineering business of my own for 20+ years, with the excellent training that I received during my appenticeship and in other courses since.
So I take my hat off to you Orv, you are a brave man. I will say straight up that I would never do your job, I don't have the patience required, nor could I ever thrust a machine that has the faults that this machine had, and they are ony the faults that were "findable". I have endless patience with machines, but not with people; and particularly not with people who don't have the skills to recognise that they don't have the skills............
OK, this guy was the second person to be involved with this machine and he did get Orv in to check it out at least, but I would have put the thing in a crusher and told the guy to take up another hobby. Sorry, but some people are not destined to build helicopters; there, I've said it.
Cheers IAN |
Orv for sainthood
