GENERAL RULES
The Club aircraft workshops
are provided to enable Club BGA Inspectors to maintain
Club gliders and the Rotax-Falke. Each glider logbook
has a list of the club inspectors. The aircraft
workshops are not to be used for non-aircraft work.
The Workshop Foyer
Door access code is available from the Club Eng
Member. The Doors are to remain locked when the
workshops are not in use.
In accordance with
the Reference Documents, Glider or MG work is to
be authorised by an appropriate CAA/BGA engineer
or inspector. If CAA/BGA engineer or inspector is
not continually supervising work (for example, an
inspector leading a C of A assisted by club helpers),
appropriate stage checks must be carried out. It
follows therefore that the workshops should generally
only be used when there is a Club inspector present.
Club members may use the workshop for work or projects
that are being supervised or led by a Club inspector
who is undertaking regular stage checks (for example,
preparing a glider for C of A inspection, hard-waxing
or disassembling items ready for inspection by an
inspector).
Club gliders and Motor-gliders
will always have priority for both workshops. However,
the LH workshop may be used for long term projects
(club and private). The RH workshop is, generally,
to be keep clear ready for use by Club gliders.
By end-Sep of each
year, the Club Engineering Member will display the
club C of A plan on the notice board outside the
workshops. Private owners are then invited to book
time to use the workshops for their own use around
the Club programme. This programme is also available
on the Club website.
LH workshop is to be
used for any painting, hard-waxing and any other
generally ‘dirty work’. The workshop
is fitted with an extraction fan to assist with
dust extraction. The RH workshop is to be reserved
for ‘clean’ work such as glider inspection
and general maintenance and instrument work.
The lockers and POL
Flame Vault outside the workshops contain a limited
range of consumables, spares and tools. These spares,
consumables and POL have been bought to support
the club fleet and are not for private use.
There is a medium term
goal of building a comprehensive tool board to bring
about full tool control however, in the meantime
inspectors must account for the tools used during
aircraft work. Multiple independent checks are to
be employed when there is any danger of a loose
article being left in an aircraft and/or a control
system has been broken.
The metal racking in
the workshop Foyer is to be kept clear for the safe
storage of canopies, seat pans and other large items.
Open racking within the workshops is to be kept
clear for the storage of removed items and not cluttered
with spares, tools or consumables.
