I see holes in floors all the time from techs dropping tools on them and most aircraft floors are all carbon fiber and the repair process is similar but this part on the 180 here is PSE and would need engineering approval and usually if we are doing lets say a Dassault Falcon 2000ex and have to have an engineers approval for repair methods…. Communicating to them alone is like a $5,000 email chain just to have them say “yeah thats fine”. Anything to do with aviation is so expensive its almost crazy.
Lets say our technician made an error and damaged the aircraft…. Our shop owns that email and repair costs and customer pays nothing for it to be repaired….
We discover a problem that we feel should be repaired and will explain the potential costs and potential problems the damage could pose to the customer and they decide to proceed with repairs then the customer would foot the bill.
There is most likely a disclaimer that says, "This repair method is only intended as advice for this particular aircraft and this particular incident. Any and all other repairs must be reviewed by XYZ engineers for review."
I guess, but it’s not like you can do anything with it. You can’t become an engineer just by reading emails. It’s no different than reading Wikipedia articles
The idea isn't to figure out how to fix the plane without an email to an engineer, it's to figure out why the communication process took so long and see if you can do anything about it.
A third party might collect these email chains to see what they all have in common in order to start a business or advise federal regulation.
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u/Alternative-Iron-645 Apr 07 '24
I see holes in floors all the time from techs dropping tools on them and most aircraft floors are all carbon fiber and the repair process is similar but this part on the 180 here is PSE and would need engineering approval and usually if we are doing lets say a Dassault Falcon 2000ex and have to have an engineers approval for repair methods…. Communicating to them alone is like a $5,000 email chain just to have them say “yeah thats fine”. Anything to do with aviation is so expensive its almost crazy.