Aaaaaaaaaastarsssss

[beltdrive]

Nice, the Hydraulic, on that shiny b3 came apart today and that at gross weight at 80 kt.....Good thing i trained that right arm. Now I need a few beer until my Hands stop shacking 😱

 

[407 Driver]

WELL DONE, you deserve the Beers....

 

[cyclic monkey]

Well done Captain. It seems lifting all those pints of beer with your right arm has paid off.

 

[beltdrive]

B) thanks guys just looked at the pump....the whole weel came of the pump..and the belt got cut as well.....and i pickled the load ...........5 euros a pound now...

 

[cyclic monkey]

Thats peanuts.....you (and even that plastic helicopter) are worth much more than that.

 

[sharkbait]

Well done Sir!!!

Please tell me - from when this same pump problem happened to me in a 350D Astar years ago- what was more annoying - the problem or that !@#$%^ Horn :wacko: .

Please drink a beer on me and send me the bill! Biggles will know where to send it!!

 

[WOXOF]

Well done sir.

Doesnt the B3 have two hydraulic drives? I dont fly Astars so forgive the stupid question.

 

[MagSeal]

there's an optional hard drive available. The 130 has the extra drive for the dual hydraulics. If you want to add the drive, send me your wallet, complete with credit cards an I'll see what I can do. 😀 (Maggie wants to go to Hawaii)

 

[WOXOF]

Thanks. Is the belt drive the old one or new one. I heard at the HAC that transport is going to AD the new belt system on all Astars.

 

[beltdrive]

Hey, well that ad is not in use yet here. So I got the old belt again..... Good one today we had a checkride with the gov inspector today..(not Canada) for a couple of the boys here and he decided to simulate a screenfailure and switched the screen off... needles to say after shutdown nothing worked again.. the techs had some fun with that one.....the key word is hard reboot...Hey sharkbait.....come here and have some good one (beer).........lol..... B)

 

[as350_b3]

Excellent job! Beers should be on the house.
I remember my last hyd failure in '99 on the way to a fire in the interior of Alaska and after I turned the horn off (how annoying) and hit "nearest airport" on my GPS I got Galena at 83 nautical miles. One hour and 15 minutes later landed safely, but the shaking in my right arm didn't go away for days, it seems (just like a fish story...).
I still have the piece of the hydraulic pump that failed and will perform "show-and-tells" after sufficient lubrication. 😉