The impact is, training is canceled, scheduled maintenance is deferred, and routine maintenance is deferred. Maintenance was placed on 12 hour shifts to perform one-time inspections and make immediate repairs. A depot engineer was sent from the States to assist us. As another example, we had an aircraft with a cracked wing support and another had a rainbow fitting support cracked. The last part of this is the corrosion of aircraft.
Older aircraft are very susceptible to corrosion.
I will start with the fact that both squadrons are very aggressive in washing and lubricating their aircraft. They have even cut the wash interval down to better preserve their aircraft. The flight control technicians have replaced numerous corroded flight control brackets and cables during the scheduled inspection time. Several of the technicians worked four weekends straight. Hard work is nothing new to maintainers.