RIGHT AFT FUSELAGE
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  • Examine fuselage for dents, wrinkles, popped rivets, and security of access panels 
  • Static port - clear
  • Aft canopy seal - check condition
  • Antennas: check condition and security (moving aft from cockpit)
    • GPS - flat round puck painted black
    • UHF - rectangular blade type
    • ELT - skinny white tube
    • VOR - The "V" at the top of the vert. stab.
  • Oxygen service door - secure (there is also an oxygen pressure gauge behind this panel)
  • Oxygen high pressure relief disk - intact (ruptures at approx 2775 )
  • Canopy emergency pressure gauge - check the needle in the Green range for the current temperature
 
EMPENNAGE AND TAILCONE
UNDERSIDE OF FUSELAGE
  • Underside of fuselage for dents, bulges, wrinkles, tears, popped rivets
  • Ventral fins - condition and security
  • Antennas - check condition and security (moving forward from ventral fins)
    •  Tacan - between the ventral fins
    •  NACWS - just forward of the Tacan antenna (between tacan and aft transponder)
    •  Transponders - two antennas, one for forward cockpit; one for aft cockpit transponder
    • VHF - horizontal wire under forward cockpit.
 
LEFT AFT FUSELAGE