Thanks for the reply. First, I do not think the process is fun nor easy. Yes, I do not know the FAA process. Yes, I heard of the slide problems. But I know a little about Aircraft. If you have been on this board years ago I had under similar moments I felt I should give a brief bio. I do it again.
I am a 28 year retired in 1985 USAF Retired Officer. An Avionics and Aircraft Maintenance Officer. Was not a Pilot. Like to joke with my fly-boy friends 'I didn't have fun flying, I worked for a living.' I was on an Inspector General Maintenance Team for 4 Years inspecting Air Force World-wide Repair and Overhaul Facilities. Been inside wide-body fuel tanks and looked at the most expensive engine rebuilds.
After retirement I worked for companies that had contracts to digitize manuals from print to use ruggedized laptops for flight line use. Saved a van full of dozens of Tech Order Libraries. Most problems were with Wiring Diagrams, and Figures. But all that was in late 1980s and early 1990s.
So, I/we are to believe in 2011/2012 the manuals from Northwest were still paper and Baltia was a stuckee?
We just supposedly failed a mini because a bar wasn't installed correctly on slides that Baltia had failed a few times. Wish I was the follow-up inspector on that maintenance install job.
So you are right. Don't know FAA like you apparently do. But I didn't just fall out of a tree yesterday.
AI
