Australian Recreational Aircraft Airworthiness Notice
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Wed Aug 13, 2014 5:50 pmby phenry
Recreational Aviation Australia have released a General Airworthiness Directive that refers to Sonex aircraft with swaged cable and thimble assemblies i.e. Waiex and Xenos.
https://www.raa.asn.au/documents/airworthiness/Swage%20cable%20insepction%20bulletin%2012082014.pdf
Re: Australian Recreational Aircraft Airworthiness Notice
Posted:
Wed Aug 13, 2014 6:30 pmby MichaelFarley56
Interesting Peter; thank you for sharing. Do you know which incident caused this action? I have not heard of this.
Re: Australian Recreational Aircraft Airworthiness Notice
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Wed Aug 13, 2014 7:19 pmby phenry
This non compliance was picked up when doing the final inspection on my aircraft prior to registration. My Waiex has not yet flown (no incident has occurred). I do not no if it affects any other planes but is worth checking.
Re: Australian Recreational Aircraft Airworthiness Notice
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Thu Aug 14, 2014 5:10 pmby Gripdana
In my line of work we make cables exactly as shown in the notice. The tool used to make the crimp needs to be calibrated for proper operation.