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Paul:
Thanks for the heads-up on this NPRM. I just put this into the docket:
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re: FAA-2007-27108 "Inspection Authorization 2-year Renewal"
Bravo! I'm not an IA nor even an A&P, just an
airplane owner who has to pay the bills. Allowing
IAs to spend more time on things other than paperwork will help.
(Now, can we do something similar for our
aircraft? How about "progressive" triennial
inspections? Critical things would be inspected
annually, and everything else would get done on a
rotating every-third-year schedule. That would go
a long way toward improving the life expectancy
of our machines, which suffer incremental damage
during every inspection; it would also reduce the
risk associated with disassembling/reassembling
things that don't really need it.)
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I'm serious about the parenthetical remarks: the
annual inspection is an idea whose time has come
..... and gone. For planes flown less than a few
hundred hours per year, they cause as much damage
as does the actual use of the plane.
-- Karl
At 08:57 AM 2/2/2007, Paul M. Anton wrote:
I guess the FAA is really here to help us. <Grin>
FAA EXTENDS IA RENEWAL PERIOD TO TWO YEARS
In response to ongoing discussions between the
FAA and industry groups, he FAA has issued a
direct final rule extending the Inspection
Authorization (IA) renewal period from one to
two years. This will reduce the renewal
administrative costs by 50 percent for both the
agency and the mechanic holding the IA without
compromising aviation safety, as the
requirements of the prior rule for annual
activity (work performed, training, or oral
examination) remains unaffected. The change to
ยง65.92(a) goes into effect immediately, and
moves the IA expiration date from March 31 of
each year, to March 31 of each odd-numbered
year. The FAA will accept comments to this change through March 1, 2007.
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/07-412.htm
Karl Sutterfield
N9532V, Mooney M10 Cadet s.n. 700022
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Kerrville, TX 78029
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