PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-682
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 682
SEPTEMBER 2009
38
PS 682
SEP 09
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PS 682
SEP 09
Prior to performing any maintenance, check yourself. You should remove all jewelry,
including your watch, rings, neck chains, pin-on rank and symbolic jewelery.
Being safe is better than being sorry. Jewelry can get in rotating and moving parts.
That puts your Fngers, neck and other body parts in harm’s way or worse.
And while you’re at it, play it safe and empty your pockets of screwdrivers, glasses,
wrenches, lighters and pens that could fall out of your pocket and lodge in aircraft
flight controls, rotating components or electrical equipment. They could end up
causing severe damage like controls binding, component failure in flight or electrical
shorts. That could put your bird on the NMC list or cause a catastrophic accident.
M
echanics, rear troops seats take a beating, so how you take care of them is
important.
±or instance, when you want to access the transition area of your Black Hawk,
there’s only one right way.
Disconnecting the top latches of the aft outboard troop seats and dropping them
onto the cabin floor is
not
the right way. The right way is to remove the seats like it
says in WP 0233 of TM 1-1520-237-23-5.
When the outboard seats
are on the cabin floor, the
aluminum seat tubes rest on
wires that run to the AN/ASN-
43 gyro magnetic compass, the
communication coaxials, and
the AN/APR-39 radar signal
detecting set. Then when you
step on the seats to access the
transition area, your weight will
crush the seat tube and damage
the wires.
Broken wires mean you won’t be computing headings or picking up signals from
search radar. Plus you’ll have a seat repair bill from stepping on seats. So, keep your
feet off the seats. They are not steps.
All Aircraft…
Be Safe Rather Than Sorry
UH-60…
Handle Troop Seats CorreCtly
I gotta get
these seats out
of the way.
hold up!
where’s your
tm?
last time, we were
dropped
on the floor and
then
damaged
when you
stepped all over us!
Never lay seats across wires
mechanics, you know
pilots do pre-flights
before they take a
bird in the air to make
sure it’s safe to fly.
question is,
what are
you
doing while
working on
your bird?
I only need eight or nine
tools. no need to carry
the whole darn heavy
toolbox!
hold on, buddy!
TEll me you’re not
planning to work on
us with all that stuff
in your pockets!
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