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"Current" Maintenance Manual

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"Current" Maintenance Manual

Postby William Hughes » Fri Nov 13, 2015 12:10 am

I am informed that a subscription to A.T.P. for a current technical manual for the Comanche is a $600.00 US price tag. My mechanic is a straight up licensed structures AMO and wants to make sure everything we do is right and I am right alongside that idea. However, that is a heck of a steep price every year, and I am the only Comanche getting an annual each year in his shop.

While I realize the manuals are on the website, these seem very out of date. Has anyone else run into the issue of having to be able to point to a "current" manual for a Transport Canada inspector? How have you handled it?

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Re: "Current" Maintenance Manual

Postby Clarence Beintema » Fri Nov 13, 2015 1:45 am

William,

Contact me at work and I'll see what I can do to help you out.

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Re: "Current" Maintenance Manual

Postby William Hughes » Fri Nov 13, 2015 1:55 am

Perhaps a more practical question is: What is the most recent date? I note that the manuals in the technical section for a single are dated 1986?
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Re: "Current" Maintenance Manual

Postby Timothy Poole » Sun Nov 15, 2015 10:13 pm

I thought ATP is an Airworthiness Directive etc. service, not a maintenance manual specific to one aircraft? If so, this should be the AMO's responsibility if they want to use the service for their customers. I use TData's IApproach software for $245 per year and use it on all of the aircraft we provide maintenance for.

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Re: "Current" Maintenance Manual

Postby JIMICS2452 » Mon Nov 16, 2015 3:24 pm

ATP is a rip off for the individual owner. The only manuals that are mandatory to use are the ones that were available when the plane was made.
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Re: "Current" Maintenance Manual

Postby William Hughes » Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:14 pm

Thanks to everyone who contacted me with assistance in this matter. Things are progressing at my end and I expect it will work out ok. However, there is a difference between the regulations in the US and Canada. I have had a number of people up here ask if there is anything of a more formal nature concerning the expectation that "current when the aircraft was built" are ok down in the US. We'd like to take some kind of FAA document before Transport Canada and have a bit of a discussion with them?
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Re: "Current" Maintenance Manual

Postby Kristin Winter » Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:50 pm

 
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Re: "Current" Maintenance Manual

Postby William Hughes » Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:41 pm

Thank you, this is exactly what I was hoping for.
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Re: "Current" Maintenance Manual

Postby Kristin Winter » Sun Dec 13, 2015 11:04 pm

Sometimes it is good to have a lawyer in the family.
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