Fairchild Club Forum

'Thank you everyone for your input! It is the Milwaukee Office that we
are working with. I purchased the airplane nearly a year ago, but
agreed with the seller that I wouldn't accept the airplane till it was
completely finished and everything signed off. We are just reaching
that point now, for there was quite a lot of things that needed to be
done. If it were me I wouldn't have told them anything about the
engine either. I'm sure the seller is wishing the same thing! I know
there is no difference any engines regarding civilian and military.
The problem is since the military airframe had a different designation
than the civilian airframe, the faa isn't buying the fact that they
are indeed the same. Of course the military was approved for the
Ranger 200. My model is a F24R46. Jay Thomson'

'One has to "understand" that 'why' would a good IA or airplane mechanic work
for a bunch of bureaucrats if 'he' was any good-? The medical bureaucrats at
FAA-CAMI don't hold, nor can they pass State licensing requirements, NOR do
the government attorneys have the ability to pass the "Bar" exams in most
states. I did a FOI about 5 years ago for FAA-CAMI and learned that ONLY 4
of the staff had ever passed a state licensing exam.

I went to work for the FAA after a successful career in law enforcement with
the predisposition that the folks I was going to work with had similar
backgrounds and real aviation experience. I quickly learned that most of my
colleagues were retired military, transfers from ATC or some "diverse"
individual that the FAA trained in their own flight program to 'their'
standards and MOST never turned a wrench nor flew an airplane in commercial
service-! Most of the good bureaucrats leave the FAA to work for an airline
or other commercial operator or repair station/shop to ply their trade in
the interest of the rest of the unknowing public.

READ: "Unfriendly Skies" by Rodney Stich for examples-!

Hence: the bureaucrats can ONLY read what some other bureaucrat wrote at 800
Independence and MOST have NO to little field experience in REAL aviation-!

I shall now get off my soapbox and have a morning cp of coffee-!

see ya all

Dick Russell, CMS, USAF (Retired)
DNR Aviation, LLC

Fly safe and visit www.councilofchiefs.org or www.russellaire.com
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Subject: [fairchildclub] Ranger 200 Approval


Thank you everyone for your input! It is the Milwaukee Office that we
are working with. I purchased the airplane nearly a year ago, but
agreed with the seller that I wouldn't accept the airplane till it was
completely finished and everything signed off. We are just reaching
that point now, for there was quite a lot of things that needed to be
done. If it were me I wouldn't have told them anything about the
engine either. I'm sure the seller is wishing the same thing! I know
there is no difference any engines regarding civilian and military.
The problem is since the military airframe had a different designation
than the civilian airframe, the faa isn't buying the fact that they
are indeed the same. Of course the military was approved for the
Ranger 200. My model is a F24R46. Jay Thomson






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