Pre-"trip" inspection items?

What do you look for beyond a normal preflight when you're about to
go on a long trip? For example, if you were flying from the west
coast to Oshkosh you wouldn't want to be within 10 hours of an oil
change or a 50/100-hour inspection.

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

As Jay says, inspection of the plane shouldn't change much, but if I'm
wandering far away I DO make sure I have my tool box in the back along with
an extra quart or two of oil, windshield wipes, etc.

Other inspections to worry about (mostly for legal reasons):
alt/static/xpdr, elt, etc.

mark

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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What do you look for beyond a normal preflight when you're about to
go on a long trip? For example, if you were flying from the west
coast to Oshkosh you wouldn't want to be within 10 hours of an oil
change or a 50/100-hour inspection.

My pre-flight inspections are exactly the same, whether it's a 10 minute
or
10 hour flight. Stuff that breaks ain't watching the clock.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:
What do you look for beyond a normal preflight when you're about to
go on a long trip? For example, if you were flying from the west
coast to Oshkosh you wouldn't want to be within 10 hours of an oil
change or a 50/100-hour inspection.

My pre-flight inspections are exactly the same, whether it's a 10 minute or
10 hour flight. Stuff that breaks ain't watching the clock.


True, but if, for example, you're getting close to an oil change, you
might prefer to take the trip on clean oil.

--- Jay



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Ben Jackson wrote:

What do you look for beyond a normal preflight when you're about to
go on a long trip?

Well, I wouldn't head across country if the annual was due and I thought it
likely that I'd get stranded several hundred miles away, but that's about it.
There's nothing critical about having to change the oil at 60 hours instead of
doing it at 50.

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.

Mark Astley wrote:

As Jay says, inspection of the plane shouldn't change much, but if I'm
wandering far away I DO make sure I have my tool box in the back along with
an extra quart or two of oil, windshield wipes, etc.

I carry those all the time. I got stranded once at my home field when a tailwheel
tire blew. The maintenance shop didn't stock them. Now I just keep a spare tube
in the plane.

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.

ook for beyond a normal preflight when you're about to
go on a long trip? For example, if you were flying from the west
coast to Oshkosh you wouldn't want to be within 10 hours of an oil
change or a 50/100-hour inspection.

My pre-flight inspections are exactly the same, whether it's a 10 minute
or
10 hour flight. Stuff that breaks ain't watching the clock.
--

Some fairly obvious things -- you'll want to be sure your flight bag has the
current charts, for example. You'll want to checkl notams and the like. You
may want to make special note of frequencies -- atc, tower, just in case you
miss a call and don't want to take the time to look them up or call flight
service.

If it's out of the country, suitable documents for crossing national
boundaries.

I like to take travel guides, too, in case there's tiome to visit something I
might have otherwise forgotten about.

If it's a long legged trip with some passengers who aren't used to being
without a rest room, some one gallon zip lock bags do well for (male) urine.

And oh yeah, a credit card or two!!

Btw, those wash and dry packets are pretty handy too, for getting rid of av gas
smell on your hands when you check the tanks anytime.

If I am going on a long trip, I usually have my mechanics look over the
plane, change the oil (if its been more then 25 hours) and regap the
plugs.

if I recently had these things done, then I dont do anything different
since I always plan on landing every 4.5 - 5 hours for fuel.

Ben Jackson wrote:

What do you look for beyond a normal preflight when you're about to
go on a long trip? For example, if you were flying from the west
coast to Oshkosh you wouldn't want to be within 10 hours of an oil
change or a 50/100-hour inspection.

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/