What have you found in a postflight inspection?
Posted by Roger_Freedman_Phys@reddit | flying | View on Reddit | 8 comments
We all do careful *pre*flight inspections, but some of us overlook the importance of a *post*flight inspection.
A case in point is this Piper I saw today, which had landed less than an hour earlier and has a pronounced hydraulic leak from the left main gear.
As the third photo shows, the gear leaked at the spot where the airplane was stopped, then continued to drip as it was being pushed back into its parking spot.
(I’ve shared these photos with the owner who rents out the airplane.)
What squawks have you found in a postflight inspection?
Zathral@reddit
I've heard of at least one glider pilot landing and going to derig, only to find the main pin still in its bag, and very much not holding the wings on.
KindnessBiasedBoar@reddit
Eeeeeeeeee. That gave a lower body flinch.
DatBeigeBoy@reddit
Hamburger meat in the left engine
Ruepic@reddit
My landings were shit, after I landed I found the rudder return spring was snapped off.
theshawnch@reddit
Well I had this happen once!
Thomas-Ligotti97@reddit
I think many pilots deprive the nose wheel of attention. I was late to one of my flights and my CFI initial student said he did a preflight but I always do my own.
The top of the nose strut was covered in oil and I rubbed my finger along the bottom edge of the cowling and there was literally a pool of oil sitting on it.
Nice learning experience for him lol.
poisonandtheremedy@reddit
That happened "to a friend of mine" once as a student pilot. Landed at a rural strip with no facilities and when "they" (he and his grizzled CFI) came back to the plane it looked like that.
They got home and the friend and resident mechanic pulled the strut apart, fixed the rolled (not torn) seal, and all was well.
rFlyingTower@reddit
This is a copy of the original post body for posterity:
We all do careful *pre*flight inspections, but some of us overlook the importance of a *post*flight inspection.
A case in point is this Piper I saw today, which had landed less than an hour earlier and has a pronounced hydraulic leak from the left main gear.
As the third photo shows, the gear leaked at the spot where the airplane was stopped, then continued to drip as it was being pushed back into its parking spot.
(I’ve shared these photos with the owner who rents out the airplane.)
What squawks have you found in a postflight inspection?
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