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You guys ever have the experience of reading something that bugs you. You
know, you start looking for flaws in the persons statements, stuff like that?
Doesn't take long, you say "BULL!. I KNOW better". Pretty soon you just blow off
the whole thing? If you feel that way, you will always be right. There's nothing
to learn. If you're not feeling that way, please read on......
So I'll try one more time to explain one of the keys to success.
Before I do, you need to take 3 valium, get a massage, then come back and read
this........
When you have any theory, you need to find a way to convert
that to facts. This is profound. You see, we don't do that naturally. We
are very comfortable making decisions entirely based on theory. Theory are
thoughts. Facts are numbers. We need to distinguish the two.
So I provided a great example of the Subaru timing chain defect. Can you
find a way to convert those concepts to your aircraft? If you can, you are on
the path.
Let's take a real world example. Your fuel delivery system. How do you know
the distance between it and failure? Vapor lock failure is at one end of a
curve. We want to be as far as possible from that end. How do you know that
distance? Right now we use theory. We guess. We say: " Well, Bill hasn't had
vapor lock and he's flown for 300 hours. Clearly that's the best path." If
you have to guess, that is a good guess. But you don't have to guess. You can
easily measure your safety margin. There are many simple tricks to measuring all
of your safety margins. Not just this item. So I'm saying, put your skills into
converting your best theory for fuel delivery, into how do I convert that
idea to facts?
Of course, I'm assuming that there are users who are unable to install
intank pumps. After all, those pumps do virtually eliminate
all vapor lock risk. Perry did just that. Way to be Perry! You took
action on a risk item, that may have killed one of our guys(speculation), and
you totally eliminated that risk item. That is so friggin significant.
Ok, so you made it all the way to the bottom of this post. Take two more
valium, reread..........THEN FIRE AWAY!!!!!!!
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