My Aztec's first Annual

If you do this be sure you find a translator with aviation experience.
Knowledge of specialized terminology is essential to accurate translation.

Rob


...
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.
...

"Louis L. Perley III" writes:

They brought in a welder and he
said it's too tight for him to get his gear in there to weld while the
engine is there, so I'll have to remove the engine to get fixed. Since the
engine will be off the aircraft, I'll replace the engine mounts, since
they're slipping just a bit and it's not going to cost me any extra labor to
have it done.

Are your engine mounts affected by the crack inspection AD? If so, it'd sure
be an opportune time to replace one.

The labor will be a significant part of
the cost of correcting the squawks post-annual (since in my mind the annual
is just the inspection portion), and I didn't get away with as little cost
as I'd like, but it will be put back together and everything will be done,
so next years annual should be pretty straightforward.

You didn't have to replace engines, props, hubs or even fuel cells?! You
got off easy.

Good luck.

--kyler