Repeating my earlier post. Our airline
has composite aircraft and we always ground as the first course of action coming
into the hangar and the last before tugging it out and back into service. I
believe all aircraft not just composites should be grounded when in a structure
without adequate fire suppression.
That said, the incident of self service
automobile fires have jumped substantially over the last twenty years. I heard
anecdotally that many were women wearing panty hose. So the moral is don’t
wear hose when refueling, polishing, sanding or painting in your hangar. I
will be grounding my aircraft as a policy. My panty hose are another matter.
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf
Of James H. Keyworth
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007
4:39 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Fuelling &
Grounding
After reading all the previous
related comments, can I reasonably conclude that the safest method for fuelling
a composite aircraft might be to attach the grounding lead from the fuel truck
directly to the hinged fuel cap (neck & cap combination), or, in the case
of a detaching filler cap, to have an attachment point on the rim of
the tank neck itself?
If so, would this also work
in situations of polishing, sanding, painting, et cetera?