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Marty's set will keep you busy for a while... I saw that SAL paint job the other day, quite garish!
Someone at ANZ had run a clean cloth over the A320 window I was at, so I shot off a few over the wing with the shoefonecam.
It's an all-Airbus affair on the domestic jet ramp these days



It's quite a busy and flexible thing, the Airbus wing... I see it's almost standard procedure to come downhill with some airbrake.
I wondered when the orange lifting hooks are used? and why they are a permanent fixture?

Charl ..... great set!!

Thank yer, Marty... now no-one is ever going to look at this on Youtube, so I'll stick it in here...Real vs Sim.
Coming back to the sim after a break always gives me a kick, not least when the sim gets it as close as this!

Charl wrote:I wondered when the orange lifting hooks are used? and why they are a permanent fixture?

Very sure they are structural lifting points and so not to compromise the wing box these machined or at least strengthened areas for maintenance - from what I recall the wing box was built from one slab and machined into, I find out have a ANZ engineer just down the road , a neighbour.

Ian Warren wrote:

Charl wrote:I wondered when the orange lifting hooks are used? and why they are a permanent fixture?

Very sure they are structural lifting points and so not to compromise the wing box these machined or at least strengthened areas for maintenance - from what I recall the wing box was built from one slab and machined into, I find out have a ANZ engineer just down the road , a neighbour.

Was sitting in an exit row the other day and it appears to be an even more mundane reason, there's a guideline that runs out the exit rows down to those points, and it's either to help the pax get out or secure a life raft.

Well that's what the drawing displayed. If I see it again I'll take a pic of it.

Lindstrim wrote:

Ian Warren wrote:

Charl wrote:I wondered when the orange lifting hooks are used? and why they are a permanent fixture?

Very sure they are structural lifting points and so not to compromise the wing box these machined or at least strengthened areas for maintenance - from what I recall the wing box was built from one slab and machined into, I find out have a ANZ engineer just down the road , a neighbour.

Was sitting in an exit row the other day and it appears to be an even more mundane reason, there's a guideline that runs out the exit rows down to those points, and it's either to help the pax get out or secure a life raft.

Well that's what the drawing displayed. If I see it again I'll take a pic of it.

You maybe right, possibly two reasons for it, 99 % of the time one dose land an aircraft in water with the same results of Cap Sully, so be worth a wander into the engineering base and question the guys... least I have a good contact, love see what they are playing with out there at the mo.

Since the "Wobbulator' (I will be bark) Returned - arrived this afternoon I had a chance to speak the about these attachment loops with my neighbour Graham, I mention the possibles , he will check it out , he now only dose the paper work for 'Tiger' airlines and the ARBUSTS , Lindstrim you might be right .. one thing he did say and this is an OSH thing , nightly cleaning and engineering checks requires one to be tied to the aircraft , whether they serve two purposes Graham check up tomorrow for us .

PS: He Loves my ARBUST/S joke, completely agrees with me and even today the engineer crews and maintenance staff bloody hate them.