My Aztec's first Annual

Well, I met with the mechanics yesterday and we went through the
complete squawk sheet. I've been dropping by almost everyday just to get
updates and looks at things while it's all opened up, so there weren't
any
last-minute surprises. One of the primary things to get through were the
logs, which were in a bit of disarray.

You may want to sit down with you significant other for a day and work on
getting your logs in order just incase you need to use another IA in the
future. .


I'm generally pretty good with this, I go through my logs on the 152 at
least yearly myself to refresh my memory of what's in there, etc. Since I
only recently bought out the other shareholders, I didn't have the logs in
my control until a couple of weeks ago.

The airplane has spent quite a bit of
time in Canada, so a large portion of the logs are in French. Thankfully
the
AD numbers and such are still the same so one can muddle through on most
things.

Find a translator/interrupter to convert it in to English have then
notarized so your A&P IA can actually read what it says may be good for
the
future value of your aircraft. If I was a buyer I would want to see
English
log's notarized from a translator/interrupter unless I know the language.


Interesting thought. Never would have considered such a thing, but it makes
sense. Too bad I'd not considered this a week ago, as one of my co-workers
who is fluent in French just moved back to Nice, France.

The batteries won't hold a charge for very long so I'll be replacing
those.

Wise Choice!


I need Gill G-35 batteries, but they also list a G-35N and a G-35S, do the
letters mean anything inportant? The prices are higher for the lettered
parts.

The bolt for the Right alternator was found in the bottom of the cowl
(this was one of the things that had been replaced while the plane sat,
so
that one was just weird, and I think that the bolt is safety wired, but
I
guess it hadn't been).

Ok, now what the deal with people not safety tying bolts my starter bolts
on
my C-150 were not safety tied and discoverd not to be this annual


I don't know but it does make me wonder what other things might have been
overlooked. I'm having them be very thorough on this inspection/annual.
We're redoing some of the safety wire on some pieces because it just doesn't
look like it's done right, like one some of the control turnbuckles.


O-rings are a consumable part very inexpensive


Never been happier when I was being told "It's just a leak"

Have you thought of fixing the discrepancy's yourself while being
supervised? can save you a bundle in labor costs!


The main difficulty is time. I might take a crack at doing some of the basic
things while they work on the more complex issues/repairs. I enjoy learning
about how all this stuff is put together and how it works. Who knows, maybe
knowing stuff like this will save my bacon one day if I get stranded
somewhere.

--
Louis L. Perley III
N46000 - C152
N370 - PA-23-250