Source – blog.virginatlantic.com
- Perform maintenance require lifting (jacking)- for example : change tire, brake unit… .
- Landing gear extension retraction test.
- Place the aircraft into rigging position.
- Aircraft weighing and CG calculations.
Where is the ideal place to jack an aircraft ?
To know where is the ideal place for lifting the aircraft let us ask ourselves what are the requirements for lifting the aircraft with respect to the place?
- Leveled place.
- Place well protected from the wind.
always the appropriate place for such procedure is the maintenance hangar .
Sometimes our engineers need to test the movement of an aircraft’s landing gear, and it’s quite a spectacular sight. As a passenger, you hardly notice the distant rumble of the wheels coming down, let alone see the impressive process up close. Until now. We met up with our engineers at the Gatwick hangar as they jacked up an Airbus A330, and filmed them performing a ‘gear swing’
A lot is going on when the undercarriage on your aircraft retracts or extends. The pilot moves a small lever on the flight deck which sets off a computer-controlled sequence of events that operates the giant doors and moves over 7 tonnes of landing gear into place.