Logging oil changes

As some of you know, I'm in the market for an airplane. To this endeavor, I
find myself reading through a lot of maintenance log books.

I've noticed that some people log oil changes but some do not.

I'm a little worried about the owners who don't because I don't know if the
oil is ever changes or not. (Yes, I know that it just being in the log book
doesn't mean it is actually done, but it does a lot to put my mind to rest.)
All the owners I've talked to claim that they do oil changes in 25 or 50
hour intervals, but they don't log it.

Do you log oil changes?

wrote:
As some of you know, I'm in the market for an airplane. To this endeavor, I
find myself reading through a lot of maintenance log books.

I've noticed that some people log oil changes but some do not.

I'm a little worried about the owners who don't because I don't know if the
oil is ever changes or not. (Yes, I know that it just being in the log book
doesn't mean it is actually done, but it does a lot to put my mind to rest.)
All the owners I've talked to claim that they do oil changes in 25 or 50
hour intervals, but they don't log it.

Do you log oil changes?

You're required to. If it's not logged it's not done.

" wrote:

Do you log oil changes?

Yes.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.

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As some of you know, I'm in the market for an airplane. To this endeavor,
I
find myself reading through a lot of maintenance log books.

I've noticed that some people log oil changes but some do not.

I'm a little worried about the owners who don't because I don't know if
the
oil is ever changes or not. (Yes, I know that it just being in the log
book
doesn't mean it is actually done, but it does a lot to put my mind to
rest.)
All the owners I've talked to claim that they do oil changes in 25 or 50
hour intervals, but they don't log it.

Do you log oil changes?



When I was looking for an airplane. I had a guy give me an excuse why no oil
changes were logged during his ownership! He said it burnt 1 QT every 4 to 5
hours so in 25 hours it did not need one because he put about 5 QT's in it
during that 25 hours. I could not help but to start laughing turn around and
walk back to my car.

In article .net,
" wrote:

Do you log oil changes?

yes.

--
Bob Noel

I log the oil change, and log that the oil sample was sent for analysis.
And I keep all of the oil analysis reports

Tony

--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE




In article .net,
" wrote:

As some of you know, I'm in the market for an airplane. To this endeavor, I
find myself reading through a lot of maintenance log books.

I've noticed that some people log oil changes but some do not.

I'm a little worried about the owners who don't because I don't know if the
oil is ever changes or not. (Yes, I know that it just being in the log book
doesn't mean it is actually done, but it does a lot to put my mind to rest.)
All the owners I've talked to claim that they do oil changes in 25 or 50
hour intervals, but they don't log it.

Do you log oil changes?

I would guess that if they're not logging the changes that they're not
doing the changes. All my oil changes are logged by the mechanic. Why
wouldn't someone log the change? Frequent oil changes are a plus not a
minus.

Dave
68 7ECA

wrote:

As some of you know, I'm in the market for an airplane. To this endeavor, I
find myself reading through a lot of maintenance log books.

I've noticed that some people log oil changes but some do not.

I'm a little worried about the owners who don't because I don't know if the
oil is ever changes or not. (Yes, I know that it just being in the log book
doesn't mean it is actually done, but it does a lot to put my mind to rest.)
All the owners I've talked to claim that they do oil changes in 25 or 50
hour intervals, but they don't log it.

Do you log oil changes?

"NW_PILOT" writes:

When I was looking for an airplane. I had a guy give me an excuse
why no oil changes were logged during his ownership! He said it
burnt 1 QT every 4 to 5 hours so in 25 hours [...]

Did he instead log each addition those quarts of oil? In Canada, such
"elementary work" is required to be logged, and so is "preventive
maintenance" in the US (FAR 43.9).

- FChE

No, only oil changes that were logged were at annual inspection points in
his logs.


"Frank Ch. Eigler" wrote in message
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"NW_PILOT" writes:

When I was looking for an airplane. I had a guy give me an excuse
why no oil changes were logged during his ownership! He said it
burnt 1 QT every 4 to 5 hours so in 25 hours [...]

Did he instead log each addition those quarts of oil? In Canada, such
"elementary work" is required to be logged, and so is "preventive
maintenance" in the US (FAR 43.9).

- FChE

I do log oil changes, otherwise I wouldn't know when to do the next 25 hr or
6 month change. Also, I want to have a good maintenance record in case I
decide to sell the airplane.

Shawn
Pitts S-1D, G-BKVP
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As some of you know, I'm in the market for an airplane. To this endeavor,
I
find myself reading through a lot of maintenance log books.

I've noticed that some people log oil changes but some do not.

I'm a little worried about the owners who don't because I don't know if
the
oil is ever changes or not. (Yes, I know that it just being in the log
book
doesn't mean it is actually done, but it does a lot to put my mind to
rest.)
All the owners I've talked to claim that they do oil changes in 25 or 50
hour intervals, but they don't log it.

Do you log oil changes?