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Poor craking and starting performance on Piper Aircraft
Posted by Richard Bogert on
If you are having issues with slow cranking during starting or going through batteries more often than you should, you may need to replace the aluminum cables with the Bogert Aviation copper cables made for your airplane.
Dragging out a full set of wing jacks is a pain, just to do a simple job.
Posted by Richard Bogert on
It was evident that something needed to be done for operators of the Beechcraft King Air Series and the Cessna 421C, 414, 425, 441, the Pilatus PC12 and the Piper PA46 models. Bogert Aviation designed portable axle pin system that safely lifts one wheel at a time for routine maintenance tasks.
Bogert Aviation Revolutionizes Aircraft Maintenance
Posted by Richard Bogert on
In that same spirit, Bogert Aviation introduced a number of products that change the way aircraft maintenance is performed. We are all about making it easier and safer.
- Tags: aircraft, Aircraft Maintenance, aircraft mechanic, Innovation, jacking, landing gear, maintenance, Mechanic
P-Lead Troubles
Posted by Richard Bogert on
I have run into an issue three times in the last couple of months, where the p-lead doesn’t touch the contact in the magneto. The p-leads were made correctly. In the first two cases, the aircraft originally had the standard AN3105 p-lead terminal. That terminal is longer than the Bendix terminal and it bent the flat contact spring inside the magneto. When the Bendix terminal was installed, it was a few thousands of an inch from touching the spring. The contact spring can be easily bent outward a bit so that it makes contact with the Bendix Style terminal. You...
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I could have been KILLED!
Posted by Richard Bogert on
There was no warning and it was instantaneous.
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