Ken Welter wrote:

  Yes and as you remember I told you at Arlington last year that

Jim

was a accident waiting for a place to happen as the engine
installation was a compleat abortion and in addition to that he

had a

aft CG problem and he would not listen to me about it and I told

him

that it would be prone to stalling and spinning in the event of

a

engine failure,  > > What doesn't make sense here is how he got

an airworthiness cert if his W&B was

off. FAA (and presumably DARs) are pretty strict about W&B calcs; at

least my

FAA inspector was.

Finn

Yes but do they actually check it or do they check just the paper work?
There is a saying in the professional A&P world. "I pencil whipped it."
Meaning I signed it off without actually doing the work. In my experience
the FAA rarely checks anything other than the paper work.

Paul Lamar

I have never hear of the FAA or a DAR actually checking the W &B as that
would mean hauling out the scales, etc.  Mine did check the paper work and
my calculations of W &B.  But, given it was a well know RV-6A design -
probably did not spend any time worrying about it. Has anyone ever heard of
them actually checking the W & B on an experimental?
Ed Anderson

Unless he blatantly falsified the W&B data, checking the paperwork should have a
revealed an possible out of CG situation.

Finn

 
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