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: But all you're doing is pushing the determination from the A&P to the
: DER. If having the DER say it's OK is good enough, why not the A&P? : After all, both are certificated. What's more, you can argue that you : have less responsibility with an A&P, since he supposedly met an : objective set of standards to be certificated, while a DER didn't. : It would be awfully cynical of me to believe that this is being pushed : to the DER's because anyone can become an A&P, but becoming a DER is a : cushy retirement gig for a fed or someone connected. I was thinking the other way around (top down vs bottom up)... i.e. a FSDO that used to do a field approval without requiring a DER will now require one for the same type of modification. It's CYA on their part.... not the A&P. : Again, the two fundamental axioms of certified aircraft (and flying : in general): : A. What's safe is not necessarily legal : B. What's legal is not necessarily safe. : Add a third - sometimes you have to choose one or the other, because : you can't have both. I like that... I'm going to use it. : There's a whole discussion of this happening now on AvWeb. : Technically you are right. You can require that the IA sign off the : annual (as unairworthy) and give you a list of discrepancies, get a : ferry permit, and fly to another airport to have the discrepancies : resolved. But in real life, that's not an option unless you are at an : airport with multiple competing shops and can simply taxi over. I was thinking more along the lines of unapprovedly ferrying the plane to another shop. You're right, however... if you're at a place with a single shop, then they very well may have you screwed. : permit? I know he's not coming back to me, so it's all extra liability : for no reason. Fair/true enough. : Your only real options, if you are based at a field with only one shop, : a : (a) Move : (b) Deal with the shop, on their terms. They have you over a barrel : (c) Learn to do your own maintenance, and get someone to sign off for : you Option (c) is what I currently do, and I'm fortunate to be in a rural enough area that there are a number of A&P/IA's around that consider that the norm. There are *no* "shops" at any of the airports I frequency, so that's the norm, rather than the exception. I certainly couldn't afford a plane if I had to pay a white-shirt shop to maintain it for me. -Cory ************************************************** *********************** * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * ************************************************** *********************** |
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