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6/17/2025 2:54:45 PM EDT
Do i need any special
Tools
Day 1?  And how annoying are they to work on. We’re talkin the transport not the ah1
6/18/2025 2:31:30 AM EDT
[#1]
What kind of work will you be doing?

The only time I worked on one was in A&P school. All we did with that could be done with our basic tool sets. We weren't doing anything too advanced though.
The government is just a corporation with a monopoly on violence.
6/18/2025 3:32:37 AM EDT
[#2]
Don't mess with the "Fortunate Son" Switch thingy......



It's the same as the Chem Trail switch on big jets......
An ARMED SOCIETY is a POLITE SOCIETY!
6/18/2025 9:50:25 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Oddysey23][Edited] [#3]
Loooooooooolllz.

What about the copper
Head road switch!?

Or whatever the one from apocalypse now
Is

Work is standard mech work. With a side of avionics and sheetmetal

Pretty stoked, been trying to heli work for awhile just for options in the boonies and in general….  They gettin a new Boeing/itslian “grey wolf” airframe at some point which will
Be cool. Love new airframe smell lolz or just lack of 80 years of  ballzak funk lolz
6/24/2025 10:57:03 AM EDT
[#4]
Not a lot of special tools, old technology.

Basic A&P stuff, RTFM, books are pretty good these days.

If you have to pull a main transmission, call in sick.
All skill is in vain when an Angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket.
12/21/2025 11:25:24 PM EDT
[#5]
Thee main trans coming out all the time! So wild. Hoist form ceiling, everyone pros it’s all good!
12/22/2025 9:54:34 AM EDT
[Last Edit: onesureshot][Edited] [#6]
Tail rotor drive shaft clamps give me Forest Whitaker eye...

We spent an entire day trying to get the gap equal when torqued, making numerous attempts. Not sure if it was just a pissy boss not wanting to sign off on our work, or if we were really that far off spec, but either way it has caused me to twitch any time I have to use anything similar.

Mounting a scope in scope rings should not be so traumatizing
1/15/2026 8:09:18 PM EDT
[#7]
That’s wiiiiiiiiiiild, I’m reaaal new at these rotary wing ideas. So I’m just like a deer in headlights all day, (not really but) and this other (compared to fixed wing) parts n pieces has me head swimming

Lolz forest Whitaker eye

Loved him in that only good Star Wars movie  of last 15 years
2/18/2026 11:00:37 PM EDT
[#8]
You will need the tools to collect oil samples.  We had to get all 5 at 25 hours and sometimes there were specials we had to collect.  It's so much easier when you have the right tools.  

kwg
2/18/2026 11:02:44 PM EDT
[#9]
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Originally Posted By onesureshot:
Tail rotor drive shaft clamps give me Forest Whitaker eye...

We spent an entire day trying to get the gap equal when torqued, making numerous attempts. Not sure if it was just a pissy boss not wanting to sign off on our work, or if we were really that far off spec, but either way it has caused me to twitch any time I have to use anything similar.

Mounting a scope in scope rings should not be so traumatizing
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I feel and know your pain.

kwg

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