Lars and I were surprised how the weather turned out to be last Sunday – with lots of sunshine; it was nice, light and warm in the hangar whole day:
We wanted to do a couple of small things, and I prepared the instruments:
Checking the air filter was fun – I’ve never seen anyone opening it (which doesn’t mean nobody does it):
It showed up to be a K&N air filter:
After 2-3 hours of work we took a lunch break, with shrimp salad on the menu:
Doing 200 hours service in October, we noticed a rubber gasket was cracked. Lars had prepared a new one as a replacement, a bit thicker, but we needed to get the old one out first:
It had multiple cracks, and it was very good to change it:
We put the new one in place, it fitted very well:
I had noticed earlier, one of the screws on the cowling of my Aeroprakt was a kind of worn, and it got replaced:
In the end, there was tea and dark chocolate, and of course, some paperwork:
I enjoy working together with Lars, and appreciate his help very much. We work good together – quickly and having fun. I always learn something new, and often forget some of it 🙂 After such working days in the hangar, I leave with a list of new things I need to buy – like instruments, pliers, screws, you name it! And every time I (mistakenly) believe, this is the last list 🙂 But having the right instruments is important, and also a pleasure to use.
My Aeroprakt was more than ready for new adventures. Let’s see where the winter weather will bring us to.