yet another annual story - day three (finished)

Nothing to say except wrapped up the annual.

24 hours of time for the two mechanics, which included installing the
knots-2-U strobe (which is NOT a 6.5 hour job), plus some of my time
opening and closing the various panels.

A three day turn on an annual inspection plus an STC install is pretty good.

Now I'm looking forward to some flying weather and time off from work...

--
Bob Noel
(gave up looking for a particular sig the lawyer will hate)

A three day turn on an annual inspection plus an STC install is pretty good.

Dang! And here I was happy about my 3-day annual (with a gas tank
sealed) and was crediting it to my A&P wanting desperately to get back
to working on his P6E Hawk fighter replica, which is nearly ready for
flight testing.

Of course, it sounds like you had twice as many A&Ps working on yours
as I did -- no fair!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article .com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

A three day turn on an annual inspection plus an STC install is pretty good.

Dang! And here I was happy about my 3-day annual (with a gas tank
sealed) and was crediting it to my A&P wanting desperately to get back
to working on his P6E Hawk fighter replica, which is nearly ready for
flight testing.

Of course, it sounds like you had twice as many A&Ps working on yours
as I did -- no fair!

yeah, but they were also putting in new bladders on a 402, and this isn't
their fulltime job.

The shortest time for any annual on my plane was 24 hours (in 2004 I think).
I brought it in at 5pm Friday and was done by 5pm Saturday.

--
Bob Noel
(gave up looking for a particular sig the lawyer will hate)

On Mar 26, 5:40 pm, Bob Noel
wrote:
Nothing to say except wrapped up the annual.

24 hours of time for the two mechanics, which included installing the
knots-2-U strobe (which is NOT a 6.5 hour job), plus some of my time
opening and closing the various panels.

A three day turn on an annual inspection plus an STC install is pretty good.

Now I'm looking forward to some flying weather and time off from work...

--
Bob Noel
(gave up looking for a particular sig the lawyer will hate)

WOW, My record for an annual is 3 weeks. Some have wondered if its
called an annual because it takes a year.

-Robert

I plan on three weeks also, although I can only take one or two days a
week off to work on it. On year it took almost 7 weeks - mostly
scheduling things - I was out of town, then my A&P/IA was on a cruise,
then I was waiting for a part...

I plan on three weeks also, although I can only take one or two days a
week off to work on it. On year it took almost 7 weeks - mostly
scheduling things - I was out of town, then my A&P/IA was on a cruise,
then I was waiting for a part...

Holy crap, what do you guys fly, a DC-3? There just ain't that much
"there" there in a single engine spam can like most of us tool around
in.

Assuming we're talking about a piston single here, what does your A&P
*do* after the first week?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Mar 27, 12:21 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
I plan on three weeks also, although I can only take one or two days a
week off to work on it. On year it took almost 7 weeks - mostly
scheduling things - I was out of town, then my A&P/IA was on a cruise,
then I was waiting for a part...

Holy crap, what do you guys fly, a DC-3? There just ain't that much
"there" there in a single engine spam can like most of us tool around
in.

Assuming we're talking about a piston single here, what does your A&P
*do* after the first week?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Well, on a Mooney removing all the inspection panels itself is a day,
putting them back is another day. Lubing is almost an entire day, etc.

-Robert

Well, on a Mooney removing all the inspection panels itself is a day,
putting them back is another day. Lubing is almost an entire day, etc.

I just had a deja vu moment -- did we have this discussion last
annual?

So you're saying it takes a full, 8-hour day to remove inspection
panels from a Mooney?

Let's see, even if you can only remove one screw every 60 seconds (and
I hope your A&P isn't *that* slow), that would be 480 screws. Figuring
an average of eight screws per inspection panel (at least that's the
way it is on my plane), you're talking about 60 inspection panels.

Does that leave any room for fuselage?

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Mar 27, 2:21 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
Holy crap, what do you guys fly, a DC-3? There just ain't that much
"there" there in a single engine spam can like most of us tool around
in.

Well, I'm slow. And, the Annual inspection checklist from Diamond,
which I follow exactly, is almost 40 pages long. My A&P/IA is not
physically there for most of the time. Mainly the engine stuff at the
beginning, and after the inspection panels are off and the interior is
out. We usually total about 40 man-hours - just spread out. If we did
it continuously, we'd be done in three days or less.

Steve

We usually total about 40 man-hours - just spread out. If we did
it continuously, we'd be done in three days or less.

With the fixed expense of airplane ownership being what it is (high,
regardless of actual usage), making your plane unavailable for three
weeks every year seems awfully expensive.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"