at scottsdale airport it's a little quiet out there
is it right now well we're gonna go uh get a status report on the green hornet status update
looks like it's uh kind of midway through its annual gonna go check out the guys here
at keystone aviation and uh see what's going on with the airplane so let's go take a look
all right guys here at uh keystone aviation these guys are fantastic they just went over the annual
as it's progressing right now um on what they're looking at and what they're doing um just a
great way to kind of find out what's going on with your airplane airplane they say is
actually really good a couple little things here and there um we do need some more brakes
our brakes are getting worn i blame sam no i'm kidding nothing maybe a little sin i mean come
on man but uh anyways getting the brakes done as you can see the uh engine is taken apart
we do need to replace some filters in there it's arizona it gets really dusty out here um the props
off as you can see there there is a governor that they saw was leaking so they tightened that up
and they recapped a lot of the spark plugs in there actually every single one of them
and basically that's exactly what the airplane looks like it's not often you get the cowl off
but uh there you go you got the exhaust system here's one of the turbos on there the turbo
is on the other side as well you've got uh man we've got everything here got some magnetos here
you've got an alternative and you've got got your oil filter back in there now
i'm always impressed with mechanics because i how do you get back there to get that oil
filter you know like my big hand can't fit back there so anyways uh yeah this is what the
airplane looks like when it's taken apart when it's going through an annual um thank goodness
uh there is a new airplane we do get the annual covered on this one with cirrus thank you cirrus
and uh but there are some things that they don't cover like consumables and you know
kind of minor things we'll get together and let you guys know how much this annual cost
hopefully not too much but the most important thing that it is safe and again these guys
at keystone have been doing a really good job keeping us up to date on what's going on with
the airplane and some of the things that we need to get fixed a little minor stuff we had a latch
actually on the inside this latch was uh pretty hard to close and it actually was an
issue for us uh for my wife when she thought she closed it on a takeoff and
the door didn't completely come open it opened up a little bit but you know it kind of scares you
you know the wind is rushing in and all that good stuff so yeah so anyways we got that fixed
another thing that was kind of that our squawk uh the last flight we had a pitot tube issue
so they've got that ticking apart right now they said it's a sensor issue so they're getting that
replaced as well it's kind of one of the squawks that we had uh the brakes on the other side have
been done uh fairly recently there is the brake pad there but uh it was done fairly recently um
but their recommendation is to replace both of them at the same time uh that one has about a
quarter left of breaking so we'll see as you can see that's a brand new tire that we just had done
on there and that was on its last uh i think 50 hour we had uh we had it inspected they replaced
that the tire on the other side looks pretty decent here you go seats out so obviously getting
the seat out getting some room for those guys to work in a pretty good deal they take apart all the
inspection plates do a big inspection on the airplane we're catching it probably three to
four days into the inspection so they tend to open the airplane up do the entire inspection process
and then they start working on squats so a lot of the plates are back on the inspection plates
um they've only left off a couple of things so they can uh work on it like our elt uh there's a
a coding thing with our elt in there that uh
well it was mismatched so they're gonna figure that out and get that proper properly set so um
a couple other things in here you got the oxygen bottle here is what makes cirrus and cirrus
well kind of it's their claim to fame i guess but here's the uh i call it the ejection seat
for the airplane it's the uh parachute how it's rigged in there
so that is pretty much it for that inspection side you know
again uh you could always tell a really good shop by how well they take care of your airplane um
they put down these little plastic deals to keep the airplane nice and protected as they do their
inspections and they do their their maintenance on the airplane so uh i really appreciate that
you know it's an expensive airplane you want to keep it uh you want to keep it looking nice
right like look good feel good so checking out a little bit of the cables um talk like i know
what they're expecting i don't know if they're expecting but inspection plates off they're
inspecting something making sure that you know when you put your family on there it's gonna be
good to go is there another thing that i look at too honestly when i uh put my airplane into
any kind of maintenance is actually looking at the maintenance facility
i know when my daughter went off to und i was judging und by you know the overall
the overall campus and experience and all that good stuff but i want to make sure that the
airplanes were safe and i want to see how the maintenance was and the one good thing about a
maintenance facility when it is as clean and picked up and organized as this maintenance
facility is you just feel good about it so i feel good about these guys they've been doing obviously
they're a serious authorized service center so they know what they're doing here with keystone um
he's been super fantastic these guys at keystone aviation taking really good care of the airplane
i just kind of wanted to ask him the guy who knows what goes into an annual and what is it all about
so for an annual the first thing we do is an incoming run check all the power settings uh
look for leaks after we bring the airplane in do a compression check to make sure you've got good
compression on your cylinders check the spark plugs do the miscellaneous checks that
continental calls out we open the airplane up look at the exterior look at the interior panels that
they call out do an avionics check and then at the end we will also jack it up check the
brakes brake pads and look at the at the bearings for verification the bearings are in good shape
then we start uh working off the discrepancies close everything back up and go to a final
uh check and then send them on the way well that's that's good stuff because i didn't
know that either so it's actually kind of nice to know what's happening with your airplane you know
every airplane is different every like this is serious uh you know cessna probably does
something different piper does something different you guys have a checklist and you gotta run
on all these inspections uh just to make sure they're hitting every single one so each airplane
is different but uh i highly recommend you guys always go out and talk to your mechanics
uh they are the ones that are keeping you safe and your family safe so make sure you go talk to them
they're great people uh and again if you've got a serious you're here in the scottsdale area come
see keystone aviation these guys are awesome so thanks all right thanks ladder yeah we'll talk to
you later all right guys uh something quick this week i know you guys were curious about the annual
and how it's going it is going well uh hopefully the green hornet be up here in the next few days
and uh they're gonna do some engine runs on it pretty soon and start putting everything back
together and hopefully get those parts for the a few little warranty items we had a little bit of a
bent uh plastic in there and they a couple other minor things little minor things so overall uh
great experience um on the annual now of course i haven't gotten the bill yet but overall it's been
it's been good these guys have been great so all right guys i hope you enjoyed it uh we
will see you at the airport in the air keep keep hustling out there it's uh it's a busy time right
now i just got done doing interviews uh today i'll be doing them all week it's awesome seeing
you guys out there uh you know interviewing trying to get those jobs and moving up so all
right guys stay humble stay hungry keep flying appreciate you guys watching see you next week
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