RussR
En-Route
If you have an airplane you are renting out as a trainer, and you are providing the flight instruction, then you need to have 100-hour inspections. That's simple.
If you aren't doing flight instruction, then you don't need 100-hours. Got it.
Once you get to 99.9 hours, you have up to 10 additional hours if needed to get it somewhere to do the 100-hour inspection. This is part of what I don't understand. After 99.9 hours, you cannot provide flight instruction, so as a result, for the flying to get to the mechanic, you don't even have to have a 100-hour inspection. So, what if at 99.9 hours you decide "you know, I'm tired of teaching in this airplane, I'm just going to fly it around some". Then, at 120 hours you decide "okay, that's enough fun, I need to start teaching again", and you get a 100-hour.
Have you violated anything? I don't think so.
When is the next 100-hour due? I assume at 220 hours.
If so, then what's the point of the "10-hour" buffer, since that flight to the mechanic is (to me), no different than taking it off the line for a while, which I presume would reset the 100-hour clock.
I'm sure some people try to game the system like this. But is it even really "gaming the system"? As long as you don't provide instruction past 99.9 hours, there's no violation, is there?
(This is academic. Although I am using an airplane for flight instruction that does get 100-hours, I have no need or interest in reverting it to "non-instructional use". Just trying to understand the rules.)
If you aren't doing flight instruction, then you don't need 100-hours. Got it.
Once you get to 99.9 hours, you have up to 10 additional hours if needed to get it somewhere to do the 100-hour inspection. This is part of what I don't understand. After 99.9 hours, you cannot provide flight instruction, so as a result, for the flying to get to the mechanic, you don't even have to have a 100-hour inspection. So, what if at 99.9 hours you decide "you know, I'm tired of teaching in this airplane, I'm just going to fly it around some". Then, at 120 hours you decide "okay, that's enough fun, I need to start teaching again", and you get a 100-hour.
Have you violated anything? I don't think so.
When is the next 100-hour due? I assume at 220 hours.
If so, then what's the point of the "10-hour" buffer, since that flight to the mechanic is (to me), no different than taking it off the line for a while, which I presume would reset the 100-hour clock.
I'm sure some people try to game the system like this. But is it even really "gaming the system"? As long as you don't provide instruction past 99.9 hours, there's no violation, is there?
(This is academic. Although I am using an airplane for flight instruction that does get 100-hours, I have no need or interest in reverting it to "non-instructional use". Just trying to understand the rules.)