AUGUST 2018 TWIN CESSNA FEATURING: 340A RESTORATION DOWN UNDER MEMBER SURVEY RESULTS SPECIAL 310 SIGHTINGS TRADING CRUSADERS READERS WRITE AND MUCH MORE... TWIN CESSNASM FEATURES The Twin Cessna Flyersm P.O. Box 12453 4 FROM THE EDITOR 20 SPECIAL 310 SIGHTINGS Charlotte, NC 28220 Phone: 1-877-977-3246 Upcoming seminars, new alternator The pictures tell the stories. One 310 Email: [email protected] SAIB, ATC privatization, power-by- spotted in remote Africa provides Website: www.twincessna.org the-hour for Twin Cessnas, In This thrills to visitors, including local school The Twin Cessna Flyer Magazine is the official publication of the The Twin Issue, and more. children. And another famous 310 had a Cessna Flyersm owners organization, P.O. Box 12453 Charlotte, NC 28220. special visitor recently. The price of a yearly subscription is $85 ($130 international), which includes 8 340A RESTORATION a one-year membership in The Twin DOWN UNDER TRADING CRUSADERS Cessna Flyersm owners organization. 22 To “restore” a Twin Cessna means The Editor recently sold his 1982 T303 The Twin Cessna Flyer is not affiliated with or sponsored by Textron different things to different own- Crusader and bought a newer, 1984 Aviation or the Cessna Aircraft Com- pany. ers. To member Chris Panayiotou, model. It was an “all-in-the-family” who lives in Australia, it meant a affair, as he bought the new airplane Twin Cessna owners and operators are encouraged to submit articles and complete tear down and rebuild of from a TTCF family and sold his old pictures for publication. Once submit- ted, the articles and pictures become his beloved 340. For what he spent, one to a member of our group. Plus the property of The Twin Cessna Flyersm and cannot be returned. The he could have easily afforded to TAS did the prebuy inspections on both act of making a submission for publica- tion is an express warranty that the upgrade to a turboprop. But why do airplanes. submitted material does not infringe on it when a 340 is such a perfect fit for the rights or copyrights of others. his mission? 26 READERS WRITE Published articles may include opinions or specific recommendations on aircraft Partial power takeoffs, manifold maintenance or operational practices. These opinions and recommendations 14 MEMBER SURVEY pressure drops, TBO extensions, aux fuel are solely those of the article author RESULTS - PT. I pump ops, MLG strut leakage, and more. and not necessarily those of The Twin Cessna Flyersm. The Twin Cessna Flyersm Many of you took the time to does not endorse any practice that would be in violation of FAA regulations answer a lot of Twin Cessna Flyer 32 CLASSIFIEDS or the aircraft POH/AFM. survey questions a few months Nothing appearing in The Twin Cessna Flyersm may be reproduced ago. In this article, we present the 36 UPCOMING SEMINAR or distributed without the express first part of the results. We are an INFORMATION permission of the publisher. experienced and mature group of pilots! The twin cessna flyer advisory committee Larry A. Ball - New Haven, IN Anthony R. Saxton - Defiance, OH Cover photo provided by Chris Panayiotou. Editing assistance provided by Rose Comaduran. Copyright 2018, The Twin Cessna Flyersm. All rights reserved. THE TWIN CESSNA FLYER • AUGUST 2018 | 3 from the editor by Bob Thomason, Editor FALL SEMINARS NEW ALTERNATOR SAIB 4.1.3 of the M-0 manual. A copy of the SAIB can be found on our website on the Technical and Safety Info page. Registration On June 20 of is now open this year, the for our fall FAA issued ATC PRIVATIZATION seminars. a Safety WON’T DIE First, we Airworthiness will hold our Information ATC privatization has been reintroduced annual West Bulletin (SAIB twice in last minute, back-door efforts Coast seminar NE-18-16) since it was first defeated earlier this at Hillsboro directed to year. Fortunately the proponents have Aviation, located on the Portland- owners of been beat back each time. Still, one Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) in Oregon. It airplanes with thing is clear: the fight is not over. is now firmly scheduled for September Continental 520 13 - 16. and 550 engines We can be that have direct sure there I understand the weather in the area drive alternator will be more is great this time of year, and it’s been systems. This attempts years since we’ve held a seminar there, includes most to finagle a so we are expecting a big crowd. Thanks Twin Cessnas. If your Twin Cessna has privatization to member Rick Sottile for his help The purpose a front-mounted engine- bill through arranging this was to alert driven alternator, make Congress, so exciting location. owners to the sure your shop follows we need to possibility of the proper installation constantly be Our final seminar potential failure and inspection on high alert. of the year will be of the alternator procedures as outlined That means held on October drive coupling in Continental M-0 making sure 18 -21, at TAS following Maintenance Manual. you are on Aviation in Defiance, OH. This is our maintenance the email Tech Advisor Tony Saxton’s shop, and events and/or improper installation. lists for AOPA’s Privatization the dates are firm. TAS is currently This failure could result in loss of engine the AOPA, Emergency Checklist. booked out for a full year, so we’ll have power in flight and forced landing. EAA, and plenty of Twin Cessnas in various stages NBAA. And when they notify you that of disassembly and repair to look at. The SAIB is a result of 2015 fatal another attempt is being made, contact accident involving an A36 Bonanza, your congressional representatives Details can be found on page 40 of this where the alternator drive coupling immediately and tell them why ATC magazine, and you can register online failed sending metal throughout the privatization is a bad idea. from our website: www.twincessna.org. engine, causing oil starvation and engine For both seminars we will be conducting failure. The NTSB report on the accident AOPA has a particularly good the Systems Seminar on Thursday and stated: “Either an out-of-tolerance document entitled “AOPA Privatization Friday, and the Engine Seminar on coupling or an improperly installed Emergency Checklist.” Just Google that Saturday and Sunday. one can result in insufficient clamping force holding the coupling against the alternator. If there is insufficient clamping force, the coupling can rotate on the shaft and cause unusual wear and the ultimate failure of the coupling.” This is not a newly-discovered risk. It is addressed in the Continental Maintenance Manual M-0 where proper installation practices and inspections are detailed. If your airplane has an engine mounted alternator, make sure your shop is familiar with section 10 - 4 | TWINCESSNA.ORG more than simply paying maintenance in a Putnam Fund and is not an asset expenses out-of-pocket. of the company...if the company were to dissolve then the management team A relatively new company, PistonPower, would simply return the unused monies is offering several maintenance to each contract holder.” programs like this to piston aircraft, including certain Twin Cessnas. Right I don’t have space to outline all the now, they have programs for the maintenance plans and fees here, but term to get a copy. We’ll also put a link 414 and 421 that are equipped with I’ve looked them over and I believe they to it on our website. It not only lays out RAM engines, but they can customize (continued on next page) the argument against privatization, but programs for other aircraft. Our recent lists alternative actions which, when member survey compared to privatization, would be showed that more effective in modernizing ATC. 30% of our membership POWER-BY-THE-HOUR would be FOR TWIN CESSNAS interested in such a program. I know if I still Turbine operators have long benefited owned my 421, I from engine and even airframe would definitely maintenance programs. They pay an be interested. hourly fee to the program management Unpredictable company and then most, if not all, maintenance maintenance expenses are paid by that costs are company. the biggest challenge There are many benefits to programs in using the like this, including: 1) Your maintenance airplane in a costs become predictable because business. unexpected events are covered by the program and your hourly fees. 2) the The number program protects you, the operator, one risk of a 100% against these unexpected events. program like (In our case, this might be a cracked this is the crankcase or an engine tear down due to company behind metal in the oil.) 3) according to VREF it. After all, and Blue Book, an aircraft enrolled on you are paying a PistonPower Program increases the them an hourly residual value of your aircraft because fee. Will they all maintenance is covered going come through forward, the engines are treated as new when you have and transfers with the aircraft upon a maintenance sale. event? PistonPower The flip side is that if you have a good was founded maintenance experience with your by Ron airplane and no unexpected events, Zilberbrand, a program like this might cost you who founded Jet Support Services, Inc. — the world’s largest Many turbine independent operators provider of protect hourly cost themselves maintenance against programs for unexpected turbine aircraft. maintenance Plus, the events. Now company states piston operators on its website, have that “The client option too. money is placed THE TWIN CESSNA FLYER • AUGUST 2018 | 5 FROM THE EDITOR (continued from previous page) are worth checking out for any 414 It’s people like Chris who help keep our Since the FAA started its re-registration or 421 owner who values predictable fleet viable.