Jan. Please move to Utah. We can use you here. Larry
jan zanutto wrote: > I have a few suggestions that may help allieve some of the cost of flying > our airplanes. > > 1. familiarize yourself with FAR 43 appendix A. This tells you what you > can do as an owner. Do your own wheels and brakes, minor wiring, change > oil, interior work and painting, etc.... it's quite an extensive list and > the owner can do it all and sign off his own logbook. > > 2. when you find something that the A & P has to fix, get a fixed > estimate on parts and time- you and he enter into a contract. If he > breaks something, he fixes it. You'd never let a car mechanic get away > with that. This includes the annual too. Dont ever enter into an > "open-ended" annual. Get a fixed price on the time, and dont let anything > get fixed until you look at it first - not every minor thing has to be > fixed at the annual. It's your airplane, tell him what you want fixed. > > 3. Most interesting point of all- since the Ercoupe is fairly old, the > maintenance manual is very incomplete. This leaves you with following the > general guidlines of AC 43.13- get a copy of it and study it yourself and > know what is truly airworthy and what can go as is. Become an educated > consumer. > > 4. Find an IA who knows the ercoupe so time isnt wasted trying to figure > out what's what. > Find one who will do "owner assisted" annuals and cut the cost by letting > you do a lot of the prep work. Find an A&P who will supervise you while > you perform your own maintenance, it's legal by FAR 65- the A&P can > supervise maintenance and then sign off the work. > > 5. One bad apple doesnt spoil the whole bunch. I am more than willing to > do an owner assisted annual and supervise maintenance- sometimes for > nothing, sometimes for a tank of gas in my ercoupe, sometimes for pizza > and rootbeer. There are a few of us out here who arent trying to rip the > owners off. > > jan zanutto > N87204 A&P IA > Fresno Ca > > __________________________________________________________________________ ______ > To unsubscribe from this list please send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________________ > Follow the U.S. presidential race on our Politics list! > http://www.topica.com/lists/politics __________________________________________________________________________ ______ To unsubscribe from this list please send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________ Follow the U.S. presidential race on our Politics list! http://www.topica.com/lists/politics
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