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St. Louis Flying Club Newsletter - 28 February 2022

From The President - By Steve

Dear Members,

Thanks to Brad Hansen for the information on volunteering for the upcoming airshow at Spirit. It is on for 6/11 - 6/12 with volunteers needed for 6/10 - 6/12. The Blue Angels will be there and usually have practice days Thursday and Friday. As a reminder you will probably need your airport tenant sticker and key card for hangar access on show days.

I am happy to report that interest in the club is still strong as applications keep coming in. I did 2 hangar tours in the last week and both great applicants that requested a spot on the waiting list.

John and Larry were pretty busy in early February with the Cessna annual and some trouble shooting on the Cessna and the RV. As usual both squawks quickly resolved and the annual completed in some pretty cold weather. Thanks guys!

It is probably too early to say this but here's hoping the ice and snow are behind us and we are moving into some good flying weather. It is good to see all the planes flying lately.

Safe flying!

Steve

Treasurer's Report - by T.J

BILLING STATEMENT

General Comments:

• Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any questions about your statement.

BALANCE SHEET

Significant Discussions:

• Treasury General - We have maintained our positive balance for another month. This will return to negative in time.
• Maintenance Funds - We completed the Cessna annual, but the balance is still positive and likely to build for the year. All other balances are adequate.
• Overall Cash - Cash is sufficient to operate into the foreseeable future.

DUES

We made a new estimate of insurance and dues in mid-2021 and the current billing is sufficient. Our current dues allocation is as follows:

   Maintenance - by John

N202CR RV-7A

• Engine Roughness - On January 31, Brian reported a slight engine stuttering or roughness during full power climbs. When power was reduced, the stuttering went away. We took off the engine cowls and looked over the engine for possible causes. Everything looked good in the engine compartment so we checked the manifold line that went to the electronic ignition control. We saw that the manifold pressure hose had some oil in it which could prevent accurate manifold pressure inputs to the electronic ignition. We cleaned out the manifold pressure hose and on the next flight, there were no issues with engine roughness. However, on a flight the next day, there was engine roughness again at high power and when the Left Mag (electronic Ignition) was turned off, the engine roughness went away. We did a full check of the electronic ignition system and replaced the manifold pressure hose with a new hose, checked the timing and replaced the electronic ignition spark plugs. On February 15th, the RV was returned to service and there have not been any engine stuttering since then.

N20843 Cessna 172M

• Annual Inspection - The Cessna Annual Inspection started on January 31st and was completed on Feb 15th. In addition to the inspection, the following maintenance items were also accomplished:
  • Replaced the RH Main tire and tube and greased wheel bearing
  • Replaced Muffler shroud with new shroud
  • Installed new Garmin Roll Servo exchanged under warranty
  • Adjusted aileron and flap cable tensions
  • Complied with 500 hour magneto inspections on RH and LH Magneto
  • Installed new intake pushrod shroud tube seals on the No. 1 Cylinder
  • Cleaned, gapped and rotated spark plugs
  • Compression test results were good; #1 - 75/80, #2 - 75/80, #3 - 75/80, #4 - 74/80

N2242N Piper Arrow IV

• Piper Service Bulletin No. 1355 - On 25 February, Piper issued Mandatory Service Bulletin No. 1355 to inspect the control Tee Bar Assembly to see if has a gusset. If the Tee Bar has a gusset, no further action is required. If it doesn't have a gusset, there is a 100 recurring inspection of the upper joint weld area until the Tee Bar is modified with a gusset or we install a new Tee Bar with a gusset.

  On March 1, we checked our Arrow to see if we had a gusset welded on our Tee Bar. Fortunately we have great access to visually inspect the Tee Bar by just removing the G3X display from the instrument panel. Unfortunately, our Tee Bar does not have a gusset installed so we will need to do the 100 hour inspection until we modify our Tee Bar or install a new one.

  
  

• AD 2022-03-15 - This AD was issued to address a potential fuel quantity disparity between the amount of fuel indicated on the G3X and the actual amount of fuel in the tanks. The AD is effective on March 21, 2022 and must be accomplished within 100 hours of this date. The AD requires adding resistors to fuel probe interface to the G3X. I have ordered the resistors and will install them during the upcoming annual inspection which will meet the time requirements of the AD. Installing the resistors will require us to drain the fuel tanks and recalibrate the fuel quantity indicators.

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