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Final Inspection Before First Flight, Graham Smith

Friday 16th August 2019 – Build Is Complete

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G-MLSY is finished!

Today is the anniversary of gaining my PPL 17 years ago, so it was quite fitting that today G-MLSY is officially finished.

Ian inspected every single millimetre of the aircraft on Tuesday and Graham Smith spent the whole morning doing a very similar inspection and also reviewed all the paperwork that has been completed over the past few weeks before signing it off.

The result was a solid pass with Graham complimenting me on an immaculately built and presented aircraft. Quite pleased with that!

So now it’s time to gather up all the paperwork and check it thoroughly again the then send to the LAA for the “Application for Issue of a permit to Fly’ to allow it to be test flown.

First off today was to get a printout from a PilotAware system to prove that my Aircraft is transmitting the correct codes. This has to be done as a part of the Avionics approvals.
Ian starting the inspection. He has already seen every stage of the build as he regularly visited my workshop but this super inspection still needs to be done and all the paperwork associated, done!
All the inspection panels are off and the seats are removed to ensure he can get to the autopilot and controls. This inspection took all day.
Graham and I had to carry out a joint inspection before he could sign it off the final, final inspection sheets but it’s all good The only thing I forgot to do was take a picture of him doing it!