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Re: Austro flywheel/TVD failure rate

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Davestation wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:44 pm
CFIDave wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2020 4:20 pm One shop (SouthTec Aviation at KRUQ) addresses this issue by keeping a spare set of flywheels in stock. When you take your Diamond twin to them for flywheel inspection, they'll send your units in to Diamond for inspection, but immediately install the spare set of flywheels on your plane. Then when your original flywheels come back from Canada, they're available to be installed on the next aircraft that comes into the shop.
IMO that seems like quite the hassle for a shop that works on these so often, why don't they just buy the jig? You're paying higher inspection cost as well as round trip shipping. And if yours fail inspection wouldn't you have to pay for brand new ones to replace their stock even though the ones you got were actually used??
SouthTec *tried* to buy a flywheel/TVD inspection jig, but neither Diamond nor Austro would sell them one. Apparently Premiere in FL *was* able to purchase a jig many years ago, so your shop may be able to send units to them instead of to Diamond Canada for inspection.
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