On Sep 19, 1:04 pm, "El Alumbrado"
wrote:
I've heard a rumor that there is a pending resolution to the Pegasus Service
Life issue. Does anybody know anything?

Thanks,
Bill

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Bill,

Do you own a Pegasus? The SSA sent out a letter last month to all
registered Pegasus owners requesting information on the number of
hours they have on their ship. If you didn't get the letter then
chances are your registration with the FAA is incorrect - and so far
only 61% have responded. In that letter we stated:


As you may be aware by now, Centrair has been less than forthcoming in
resolving the life limits issues which affected all US Pegasus owners
when the FAA issued Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2005-24-01, despite
statements made to the FAA over 20 months ago that they would.

To date, the SSA has expended a significant amount of time in
discussions with the FAA in attempting to modify this AD and extend
the life limit of these airframes beyond 3000 hours. We have been
frustrated by the lack of response from Centrair, who we have
attempted to contact directly, and we have also been surprised by lack
of a significant response from the European regulatory agencies which
also should have been able to resolve this.

Recent events indicate that unless we can show that there is a
significant economic impact (beyond that listed in the AD) to the
Pegasus fleet, we may not resolve this issue in the near future. To
that end, we need to gather information from the owners to help us
make the case that the underlying economic assumptions listed in the
AD are overly conservative.


Without going too deep into the issues underlying the problem here,
I'll just state that based on discussions with the FAA in the last 6
weeks, I doubt a resolution is near.

Stephen Northcraft, Chairman
SSA Government Liaison Committee