What are the airplanes weaknesses in construction?
Well, there’s a couple of weaknesses. Overall it’s a fantastic plane, but here are things that could use improvement. Doors – The doors could be better designed, including locking latches to meet some state’s lock requirements, and they could be a little tougher. While for the most part they work ok, they tend to pull in better on the front than the back, and unless you add a handle to pull on the back side, it can be hard to get both the front and rear latch pin to go in without the properly angled pull on the door handle. Also, if the rear pin doesn’t make it far enough over, it will poke out and chip your fuselage paint, which by the way would be nice if they’d make a striker plate that would prevent this damage. If you don’t get the rear pin in when you latch the door, you will also very likely find yourself door-less once you get off the ground. So, they added a door-latch warning system. So in general, the doors could be improved a bit, but it’s nothing too awful bad. Air vents –
