Pilot Operating Handbook KP-5 ASA
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Function of flap locking mechanism in fully extended position
– pushing to flap trailing edge
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- Clearances (amount of “play”) in extended direction, flap -
10
°
(take-off position)
- Clearances perpendicular to flap extending direction, together with aileron
movement
h) Main landing gear (8. 15.) – check the following:
- Tire pressure (use a tire pressure gauge)
- Tire surface and tire slip (according to red mark)
- Nuts on wheel axis, attachment points and shock absorber
- Condition and position of rubber inserts and plates of shock absorber
- Brake bowden tightener check, placement of rope in brake control lever,
clearence between brake drum and jaws (for mechanical brakes), hydraulic
hose and brake check – liquid emission (for hydraulic brakes)
i) Fuselage (1. 8. 9. 11. 12. 14. 15. 19.) – check the following:
- Fuselage covers
- Cable covers, belts and casing of emergency parachute system
- Bottom anticollision beacon (functioning correctly)
- Attachment of fiberglass “boot” of fin
- Cables and cable adjusters of directional control
- VTU guiding lever, its attachment and attachment of tighteners
- End stops of directional control (7th bulkhead)
- Elevator clearance in carrier
- HTU balance beam (6th bulkhead) and its joint
- Elevator pull-rod joint
- Longtitudal end stops
- Angled elevator lever, carriers and its joints (7th bulkhead)
- Pull-rods HTU
- Doubler and its joint
j) HTU (9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.) – check the following:
- Stabilizer and elevator covers
- Stabilizer attachments to the fuselage and its security locks
- Elevator attachment points, positioning and security locks
