>>12023693It may be easy, but in BW it doesn't work like that. They depend on some oldfag "who has the sacred knowledge", but he's got some medical problem that makes him lawfully 80% handicapped. That's why the jet has to sit there for 5 months until he's officially able for work again. But then Passierschein A38 has expired and has to be manually revoked and reapplied and submitted again, so that takes another 4 weeks.
Then the bianual technical inspection is due despite the jet being flagged for mainenence, it (as expected) fails, after being prepared for the review for like a week
Now the work can start.
The guy starts digging in and removes the engine. It takes some time, because you gotta stall where you can, otherwise the co would expect everything to go faster in the future and we can't have that now, can we?
So after 2 weeks the engine is out, but this one bearing, consisting of 280 moving parts (because GERMAN ENGINEERING JA!) is clearly defective because of that dust particle the senior doesn't like (but everybody agrees with him to not look retarded, The Kaiser's New Clothes and shit).
We clearly have to get a new one.
A short 6 hour visit and chill in storage surfaces the fact that since that incident they aren't allowed to stockpile parts in the aircraft part stockpiling facility that is fully staffed by 4 lads, mind you watchfully guarding a back of o-rings three wheels for the Wiesel light tank and a bedframe.
Therefore a form has to be filled out, submitted and waved through by four posts including base command because the bearing costs more than 2000€
Six weeks go by, the form and later the bearing go back and forth, north and south, before it finally reaches the base from a maintenance depot 20 km away.
Turns out the bearing is broken, warped, a snapring is missing, it's the wrong bearing, it's shelf life expired 10 years ago and it's very rusty despite being non corrosive.
What comes next is beyond my knowledge or wildest imagination.
