...there is nothing "wrong" with a airplane with hail damage, and if the damage was "covered up" by bondo and repaint, then you have legal problems, especially with no log entries to back it up. Charles
Charles, for clarification, is it illegal to use bondo to smooth out dings and dents? If I were to have 91x repainted, would I have to live with all the dents and hangar rash or would it be filled in and painted over and *more importantly* is that legal to do? Thanks!
As I noted in an earlier post, that is a huge grey area. Specifically, no it is not. Are you covering up something that has the potential to crack, yes. Is the bondo an approved material to use on the airplane? I doubt it. Big aircraft manufacturers publish lists of approved sealants and lubricants and such. If its on the list, its OK for the uses specified in the manual. If its not on the list, well, there is that grey area. Is filling dents in the Cessna structural repair manual, no, I don't think so, the SRM is only a few pages in the back of the maintenance manual, very limited. The SRM should specificly address hail damage and approved repairs, and allowable dent size, sure would make life easier.
Charls
Charles
