Looking good

And it is, too 🙂

Mark at Galaxy Microlights said that MYME’s former owner had told him that the engine was given a full service only a short time before the accident happened. However, when we checked the Engine Logbook, although the service was recorded, there were few other details. The service was done by none other than Bill Sherlock who is not only a very well-known figure in the microlight world but was also the original UK distributor for AX3s.

So I gave him a ring today. What a nice chap he is. I told him about the service that was done in July 2008 and he immediately turned the details up there and then from his records. These confirmed, as he remembered, that the gearbox was given a 100 hour service and that the engine was not only given a full 300 hour service but that a new crankshaft assembly was also fitted. This is extremely good news because that work alone sets you back something like £1500 for parts and labour. He also said that the engine was particularly well looked after because MYME’s former owner is a personal friend of his, but after talking with him my guess is that he looks after every customer’s engine in just the same way – ie very well 😉

I asked Bill if he could send me over a copy of the Job Sheet so I could keep it with the Engine Logbook and he did no more than immediately whip me off an email with a copy of the Job Sheet attached that I received a few minutes later. In my short time in microlights I’ve met and been in touch with some amazing people but some people truly stand out, when I think of the help I received sorting out my Our Trike gauge and wiring problems and now with the start of my efforts to get MYRO back flying again. I hope I get the chance to make some sort of contribution of my own to the microlighting community in the future.