aburkefl
Second Officer
Flight distance : 78612 ft
United States
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Read your post yesterday, but didn't have anything to add beyond what others had already posted. Then, ironically, I watched a FliteTest video on YouTube last night.
The crew from FliteTest were flying on the beach. Peter was pointing out that, even if you don't land a float plane in the salt water, flying on/near the beach exposes everything to the salt air, which is very corrosive. After flying, he rinsed the plane (NOT THE ELECTRONICS!) with distilled water. In the case of no distilled water, you can use fresh water - the key is getting rid of the salt that has collected.
As a further demonstration, he dumped sand from the beach directly into one of the motors (he was flying a twin-engine plane). Again, using distilled water, he thoroughly rinsed everything he could get out of the motor, spun the prop, heard a little bit of "grit" still there and rinsed some more until he was convinced he had evacuated the area of sand.
Go to YouTube and Google "Flite Test: Flying on the Beach" and you should be able to find that same video. There were several points that could apply to our Phantoms as well as planes. |
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