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    The document discusses a previous article in Flight Safety Australia about fatigue of airframe structures, particularly in aerobatic aircraft. Several readers expressed concern about how their aircraft, the Victa Airtourer, was represented. The article was intended to raise general awareness and provide examples, but did not include aircraft-specific details due to space constraints and not replacing official documentation. It referred readers to the appropriate manuals and directives for their specific aircraft type.

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    The document discusses a previous article in Flight Safety Australia about fatigue of airframe structures, particularly in aerobatic aircraft. Several readers expressed concern about how their aircraft, the Victa Airtourer, was represented. The article was intended to raise general awareness and provide examples, but did not include aircraft-specific details due to space constraints and not replacing official documentation. It referred readers to the appropriate manuals and directives for their specific aircraft type.

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    The document discusses a previous article in Flight Safety Australia about fatigue of airframe structures, particularly in aerobatic aircraft. Several readers expressed concern about how their aircraft, the Victa Airtourer, was represented. The article was intended to raise general awareness and provide examples, but did not include aircraft-specific details due to space constraints and not replacing official documentation. It referred readers to the appropriate manuals and directives for their specific aircraft type.

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    The document discusses a previous article in Flight Safety Australia about fatigue of airframe structures, particularly in aerobatic aircraft. Several readers expressed concern about how their aircraft, the Victa Airtourer, was represented. The article was intended to raise general awareness and provide examples, but did not include aircraft-specific details due to space constraints and not replacing official documentation. It referred readers to the appropriate manuals and directives for their specific aircraft type.

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    Following the above article
    which ran in the last issue of
    Flight Safety, several readers,
    members of the Airtourer
    Co-operative Ltd, expressed
    concern as to the manner
    in which the Victa Airtourer
    was represented. Their level
    of expertise in this area is
    undoubted.
    However, this article was designed to increase
    general awareness in the aviation community
    about fatigue of airframe structures, especially
    with respect to aerobatic (those which
    experience increased Ghigh G manoeuvring)
    aircraft. The lack of recordkeeping was
    identied as a major concern in a recent
    audit of an operator, sparking the subject
    article in Flight Safety Australia as a follow-
    up action to provide information to other
    operators. The article was deidentied to
    protect the privacy of those concerned.
    The article was intended to be general
    in nature and provide information and
    examples of aircraft types with life limitations.
    Both constraints on space in the magazine
    and reluctance to publish data that may
    be seen as an alternate to referring to the
    controlled version (source document) of the
    limitation were reasons the article does not
    contain in-depth specics on any particular type.
    The article refers the reader instead to the AMM, TCDS or any applicable
    airworthiness directives for details on their types specic limitations.
    The details of the Airtourers specic fatigue sites were not spelled out,
    but components of the wing and tailplane structure are affected (please
    refer to AD/VAT/41 Amendment 1 for details). Comments made
    pertained to the wing structure, and not wing failure per se.
    The message was to do your homework on the type you are intending
    to purchase. The airworthiness of this type may well be updated in the
    future, given feedback from industry through the SDR system, accidents
    or better knowledge of fatigue sites. Although there was considerable
    research done in preparation of this article, it does not pretend to be all
    you need to know about any aircraft type. A full and complete statement
    on Airtourer fatigue was not the mission here.
    One writer referred to the Airtourer SDRs coincidentally appearing in
    the same issue, describing them as normal maintenance jobs. The
    whole point of the SDR system is to alert other operators to areas they
    should consider in normal maintenance. Moreover, it is the registered
    operator who is responsible for the maintenance of an aircraft, and for
    the keeping of its records. The LAMEs who do the maintenance have
    their own responsibilities, but managing the maintenance and record
    keeping for someone elses aircraft are not part of them.
    The illustration of the dramatised wing failure was an artists
    impression, and as such, obviously does not purport to represent a real
    occurrence. It did serve to attract attention and provides interest in
    the magazine article. The graphic designer used an actual photograph
    of another Airtourer on the following page, and believing that the
    orientation suited the layout better, reversed this photograph. Given
    the pressure of meeting tight deadlines, unfortunately this error was
    not picked up until after the magazine had gone to print.
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    The illustration of the dramatised wing
    failure was an artists impression, and as
    such, does not purport to represent a
    real occurrence.

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