Wow!! No after 3 years of restoring this 1947 ercoupe pulled from a field and having the assistance of my 91 year old A&P I have no more worry of getting the inspection,before I was worried it would be black listed and not be able to fly anymore. Thanks soo much! Super informative!
Mr. B is a class act. Ive had a personal encounter with him pertaining a large bore continental engine. I noticed that a cylinder was cracked at the spark plug hole. The customer thence called Mr B and explained the issue. Mr B said 'Over the phone" that the cylinder could not be cracked but i was showing the customer the crack. The customer took his word over mine and the physical evidence. Needless to say that cylinder failed 11 hours later. He's a piece of garbage in my eyes, especially some of the illogical articles he writes. I have no idea how hes gotten to where he is.
So it would be illegal to continue to fly that aircraft, until an annual inspection had been completed. If they chose to continue operations, illegally, they might get away with it for a while, until either there was an accident/incident, someone reported their status, or they tried to sell the aircraft... which would have lost a significant amount of value. While physically possible, it is legally and ethically wrong to do so.
Lots of good info crammed into this one - thanks for posting! Question - is it common for non-essential passengers to be allowed to go along on a ferry flight? I seem to recollect seeing videos where several non-essential members of a repossession crew were allowed to ride along when an aircraft that was beyond annual and in obvious need of service was being ferried back for service and resale.
I am an A&P student about to do my first airframe 100hr for class. I was watching this video in an attempt to gain insights not offered by the books, and I found it interesting that aircraft owners should expect an IA to ignore Service Bulletins. After watching an entire video about what a bunch of brainless bureaucrats A&Ps are, it is painfully obvious who is also going to get complained about in court if somebody crashes. Rather than spend an entire career trusting every pilot’s family, every potential juror and every lawyer in the world to do the right thing and ignore service bulletins too, it seems like the smart thing to do is simply stay away from GA.
Yea I'm also going straight into the airlines, you can do things by the book and if management doesn't like it you can grab your union shop steward. If you are not comfortable with something DO NOT SIGN IT OFF, on top of that the money and benefits are much better in the airlines anyways. In the end you are signing your life away and it's better to piss off a customer and have him go to a shop vs you getting pressured into signing off something and a fatal accident occurs as a result.
I don’t think I would want either of you to work on my plane. You might be a great mechanic but there is something that you need to remember. Not every aircraft owner has bottomless pockets and can’t afford to make every OPTIONAL upgrade, inspection or repair. I’m sure you wouldn’t want an auto mechanic telling you that you are required to replace your tires because something MIGHT happen. Now, a commercial bus company has a standard of service and safety that is different than a private auto owner and may be required to replace those tires because of the rules they operate under. That is how part 91 differs from135 or 121. If you follow the rules, make the proper logbook entries and, most importantly, do good work, you won’t have any issue. Sloppy work can’t be defended by a shop steward...
@@charleseinarson in the end I don't want to wind up in handcuffs because I signed off something I should not have on the owner's insistence, in fact we were shown an example of that where the control cables failed after the owner told the IA to ignore corrosion. Owner died in the crash and the IA lost his license and refused to persue reinstatement because he refused to wrench on another airplane again. That's also why I will not work on anything other than a 121 regulated jetliner (also the airlines offer pay and benefits that GA shops can't match). We follow company and FAR regulations to a T and if I'm not comfortable signing something off then that's that. If you are not happy that I'm uncomfortable with signing my life away on something I'm not comfortable with then please take your airplane somewhere else.
@@alje311 Good to know- and you can be sure we'll forego arguing with someone who refuses to think critically and instead hides behind suggestions driven by lawyers that were never intended to be ultimatums. DAMN RIGHT we'll go somewhere else. You're not Gods even if you've been trained to think you are.
@@craigwall9536 good. Pilots tend to forget when we sign something off we are responsible for that work or inspection until it is superseded by someone else's work or inspection. If I see corroded control cables that an owner is adamant about being left alone then I don't want that airplane in my shop anymore. Go be someone else's problem.
Wow!! No after 3 years of restoring this 1947 ercoupe pulled from a field and having the assistance of my 91 year old A&P I have no more worry of getting the inspection,before I was worried it would be black listed and not be able to fly anymore. Thanks soo much! Super informative!
I have also had a ferry permit sent via email, (STL FSDO). Hopefully this becomes the norm!
Mr. B is a class act. Ive had a personal encounter with him pertaining a large bore continental engine. I noticed that a cylinder was cracked at the spark plug hole. The customer thence called Mr B and explained the issue. Mr B said 'Over the phone" that the cylinder could not be cracked but i was showing the customer the crack. The customer took his word over mine and the physical evidence. Needless to say that cylinder failed 11 hours later. He's a piece of garbage in my eyes, especially some of the illogical articles he writes. I have no idea how hes gotten to where he is.
What happens if a GA flyer skips the annual inspection and just omittes making log entries and continues to fly.
So it would be illegal to continue to fly that aircraft, until an annual inspection had been completed. If they chose to continue operations, illegally, they might get away with it for a while, until either there was an accident/incident, someone reported their status, or they tried to sell the aircraft... which would have lost a significant amount of value. While physically possible, it is legally and ethically wrong to do so.
Yeah that’s idiotic lmao
Lots of good info crammed into this one - thanks for posting! Question - is it common for non-essential passengers to be allowed to go along on a ferry flight? I seem to recollect seeing videos where several non-essential members of a repossession crew were allowed to ride along when an aircraft that was beyond annual and in obvious need of service was being ferried back for service and resale.
i realize it is pretty randomly asking but does anyone know of a good website to stream new series online?
I am an A&P student about to do my first airframe 100hr for class. I was watching this video in an attempt to gain insights not offered by the books, and I found it interesting that aircraft owners should expect an IA to ignore Service Bulletins. After watching an entire video about what a bunch of brainless bureaucrats A&Ps are, it is painfully obvious who is also going to get complained about in court if somebody crashes. Rather than spend an entire career trusting every pilot’s family, every potential juror and every lawyer in the world to do the right thing and ignore service bulletins too, it seems like the smart thing to do is simply stay away from GA.
Yea I'm also going straight into the airlines, you can do things by the book and if management doesn't like it you can grab your union shop steward. If you are not comfortable with something DO NOT SIGN IT OFF, on top of that the money and benefits are much better in the airlines anyways. In the end you are signing your life away and it's better to piss off a customer and have him go to a shop vs you getting pressured into signing off something and a fatal accident occurs as a result.
I don’t think I would want either of you to work on my plane. You might be a great mechanic but there is something that you need to remember. Not every aircraft owner has bottomless pockets and can’t afford to make every OPTIONAL upgrade, inspection or repair. I’m sure you wouldn’t want an auto mechanic telling you that you are required to replace your tires because something MIGHT happen. Now, a commercial bus company has a standard of service and safety that is different than a private auto owner and may be required to replace those tires because of the rules they operate under. That is how part 91 differs from135 or 121. If you follow the rules, make the proper logbook entries and, most importantly, do good work, you won’t have any issue. Sloppy work can’t be defended by a shop steward...
@@charleseinarson in the end I don't want to wind up in handcuffs because I signed off something I should not have on the owner's insistence, in fact we were shown an example of that where the control cables failed after the owner told the IA to ignore corrosion. Owner died in the crash and the IA lost his license and refused to persue reinstatement because he refused to wrench on another airplane again. That's also why I will not work on anything other than a 121 regulated jetliner (also the airlines offer pay and benefits that GA shops can't match). We follow company and FAR regulations to a T and if I'm not comfortable signing something off then that's that. If you are not happy that I'm uncomfortable with signing my life away on something I'm not comfortable with then please take your airplane somewhere else.
@@alje311 Good to know- and you can be sure we'll forego arguing with someone who refuses to think critically and instead hides behind suggestions driven by lawyers that were never intended to be ultimatums. DAMN RIGHT we'll go somewhere else. You're not Gods even if you've been trained to think you are.
@@craigwall9536 good. Pilots tend to forget when we sign something off we are responsible for that work or inspection until it is superseded by someone else's work or inspection. If I see corroded control cables that an owner is adamant about being left alone then I don't want that airplane in my shop anymore. Go be someone else's problem.