Replacing position light bulbs

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...

The pilot of a rental aircraft is not the operator. The operator is the owner or
an agent (such as an FBO) who rents out the aircraft to that pilot.

Nope, the pilot of a rental aircraft IS the operator. You can't be an operator
without a pilot, ownership or other legal control of the aircraft is specifically called
out in the definition as not mattering. Despite the O in FBO, they are rarely an
operator by the FAR definition.

The real issue is that you must make the appropriate maintenance records and
many renters don't have access to the logs.

Peter Duniho wrote:

It can also be done by the renter, as long as the renter only works on the
airplane being operated by him (which is the scenario in question here).

The pilot of a rental aircraft is not the operator. The operator is the owner or
an agent (such as an FBO) who rents out the aircraft to that pilot.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

Hm...I thought the position lights were the red/green on the wingtips.
I keep a set of all bulbs for replacement and the boxes are clearly
marked not to handle with bare hands. Mine aren't halogen tho.

strange...

Blanche wrote in news:1072752966.368381
@irys.nyx.net:

Hm...I thought the position lights were the red/green on the wingtips.
I keep a set of all bulbs for replacement and the boxes are clearly
marked not to handle with bare hands. Mine aren't halogen tho.
strange...

It is strange... Those bulbs are not as fragile as the average 60 watt
household lightbulb. Yeah, it's always nice to keep them clean of
fingerprints and oil, but considering all the dirt and oil on them that
tends to work its way past the seals... I suspect it's a *generic*
warning/suggestion.

The ones you really should be careful of are the strobes, since those are
usually about the only high intensity ones where you can actually get your
fingerprints on the inner shell.

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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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The pilot of a rental aircraft is not the operator. The operator is the
owner or
an agent (such as an FBO) who rents out the aircraft to that pilot.

Please reread the regulation (I'm assuming you read it once already). The
regulation is not talking about an "operator" in that sense. They simply
mean the pilot who is actually operating the airplane.

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
m...
It's not going to be a problem for most position like bulbs. They have
regular glass envelopes and they don't burn hot enough to make a
difference.

I suppose it just depends on the bulb. The new tail nav light on my
airplane, when I changed it, came in a box covered in dire warning about not
handling the bulb directly. Just like the bulbs for overhead projectors and
other halogen bulbs.

Probably lots of other planes use less fragile bulbs. But one shouldn't
assume that's the case with a given airplane.

Pete