When is the date required for the very first annual on an aircraft? A year after delivery, a year after airworthiness certificate issue date, a year after registration date? Something else?
I used a year after airworthiness certificate issue date, as that was the time the airplane was signed off as being airworthy in the logs, which is essentially what an annual does.When is the date required for the very first annual on an aircraft? A year after delivery, a year after airworthiness certificate issue date, a year after registration date? Something else?
Huh?Annual inspections are not required.
Annual inspections are not required.
Ummmm... what Ron said.Huh?
Huh?
My school in Gainesville has all the newer birds set up on a progressive inspection program (sometimes inappropriately called "Phase Inspection").Read the whole regulation there are alternatives.
How would you like a maintenance program that never downs your aircraft for more than 8 hours?
(d) Progressive inspection. Each registered owner or operator of an aircraft desiring to use a progressive inspection program must submit a written request to the FAA Flight Standards district office having jurisdiction over the area in which the applicant is located, and shall provide-
No, just one piece at a time on a continuing basis. The progressive maintenance program still has to include every single item that the annual would include. Having worked at flight operations which use this method, I am quite certain that the average owner/pilot will find it a lot bigger headache than the traditional annual.set up the progressive inspection correctly and you have no need to tear your aircraft apart once a year.
But you do -- you just spread out the work over the entire year.No you don't have to have annuals.
No, just one piece at a time on a continuing basis. The progressive maintenance program still has to include every single item that the annual would include. Having worked at flight operations which use this method, I am quite certain that the average owner/pilot will find it a lot bigger headache than the traditional annual.
But you do -- you just spread out the work over the entire year.
They used the program designed by Cessna that has met muster by several FSDOs, including Atlanta. Even so, it was not an easy task to get it approved..
I don't know what aircraft is involved here but if there is not a program written for it, one would have to be done. Making it from scratch and not a proved program from elsewhere won't be an easy process.
If you do all the above, you don't even come close to the requirements for a progressive inspection program for a Grumman AA-5-series aircraft per the AA-5B Maintenance Manual. You have to do a whole lot more than "service the aircraft IAW the manufacturer's recommendations" to meet those requirements, including things like pulling the nose strut torque tube assembly, pulling the inspection covers to check for spar corrosion, checking magneto timing, pulling the ailerons to check the bearings, checking the electric fuel pump filter, etc. These items are way above and beyond the manufacturer's servicing recommendations.Do you replace worn parts when you find them?
Do you service your aircraft IAW the manufacturers recommendations?
Do you change your oil and inspect your engine compartment ever 25/50 hous?
Do you clean your plugs every 50 hours?
Do you check the airpressure in your tires every 50 hours?
Do you do a compression check every 100 hours?
If your maintaining your aircraft the way you should, you are already doing the progressive maintenance program.
If you do all the above, you don't even come close to the requirements for a progressive inspection program for a Grumman AA-5-series aircraft per the AA-5B Maintenance Manual. You have to do a whole lot more than "service the aircraft IAW the manufacturer's recommendations" to meet those requirements, including things like pulling the nose strut torque tube assembly, pulling the inspection covers to check for spar corrosion, checking magneto timing, pulling the ailerons to check the bearings, checking the electric fuel pump filter, etc. These items are way above and beyond the manufacturer's servicing recommendations.
In addition, if you're an average owner/pilot flying 50-75 hours a year, the AA-5-series progressive inspection program will have you inspecting the various parts of the airplane less often than if you do a full annual once a year, and I'm not sure the FAA will approve a progressive inspection program under those circumstances.