Friedrichshafen

The plane leaves here on upcoming monday or tuesday, to go to near the border between germany, switzerland, and austria. There's maintenance being done there, and part of that involves the mechanic installing a radar related part. That needs to be tested before it goes working again. So, the plan's shaping up for me to go to friedrichshafen to test it. I could stay a bit longer on my own time too maybe. But a bunch of complications.

Firstly, don't really know when the plane will go there. Secondly, don't know the availability of people/resources to get the mechanical work done to install this part, it might take a couple days or more. Even when done, the testing can only be partially done if the plane is in the hangar, and would only take a couple hours. The testing would be completed by the other guy when the plane reaches australia.

So, realistically, I dunno, I'd like to go to germany, I think it would be fun. But is it really practical for the company to have me stay on for a few days, and work to book new awkward flights and pay a lot since it's almost easter, for only those couple hours of work, which won't even be a full testing? It all works for my benefit, but I feel guilty to cost the company so much if it's not really worthwhile. But I don't know if we trust the mechanics to install it unsupervised, and if we're willing to leave it till australia with no testing, in case something's not right (though in that case we'd just remove it and reinstall the old ok-but-not-best part).

I don't even have ideas on where to go and what to do if I take some time to myself there. Maybe everything will be all booked up or closed down for easter.