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Replacing Aileron Control Cables
For others who have replaced cables - did you get a field approval or just a logbook entry citing 43-13 ?
Thanks,
- Charles
Charles Schefer- Posts: 563
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Re: Replacing Aileron Control Cables
Unfortunately I can be of no assistance to your question however I am very interested in the condition of the old cables, particularly where they were going around any "corners."
Thanks,
Ed
P.S. I'm very grateful for all your efforts on this forum!
- Ed Asmus
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Re: Replacing Aileron Control Cables
2. The owner provided the manufacturer with materials from which to manufacture the part.
3. The owner provided the manufacturer with fabrication processes or assembly methods to be used in the manufacture of the part.
4. The owner provided the manufacturer with quality control procedures to be used in the manufacture of the part.
5. The owner supervised the manufacturer of the part.
I think there's an argument that you satisfied items 2, 4, and 5 in your conversations and dialog with McFarlane as well as providing them the old cables from which they could determine sizes, diameters, lengths, etc which is all part of quality control in ensuring the part was made correctly.
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Re: Replacing Aileron Control Cables
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Re: Replacing Aileron Control Cables
Additionally Matt Kurke had a good FAA response letter on the subject of Owner Produced Parts published on his website and I've attached that here also.
Finally the local FSDO agreed that a simple logbook entry and leveraging "owner produced" parts was the way to go (I'm also pretty sure they just did not want to deal with a Field Approval of any kind). They referred me to AC 23-27 on vintage aircraft (any aircraft produced prior to 1980 essentially), and also AC 43-13 does have sections dealing with cabling that contains the same milspec numbers as provided with the McFarlane cables.
Both of the above reference documents do specifically state that I participated in the design by providing my old cables to McFarlane as a template to reverse engineer. As Kristin pointed out 14 CFR 21.9(a)(5) deals with this topic.
Thanks for the help on this.
- Charles
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Re: Replacing Aileron Control Cables
- Ed Asmus
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