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We've looked into this in our club which sounds very much like the one you
describe. Although, under the laws of our state, we can only hold stock and ownership in the organization that owns the aircraft, the FSDO and the insurance company have told me that they consider us owners of the aircraft. This lets members (we restrict which ones) perform Annex 43 Preventative Maintenance functions. Basically, we are each treated the same as if we were an individual owner. If you buy a plane to do your flight training in and hire a CFI to teach you, you do not have to put in on a 100 hour inspection cycle. If you let a friend use if for training, then it does because it is being "provided" for training. The key point is whether the person receiving the instruction is an owner. Both the FSDO and insurance company have indicated that they would look at it differently if someone owned an airplane and sold 1% shares to make students "owners". Everyone needs to be equal in the deal (or roughly, our buy in has gone up over the years but this doesn't appear to be a problem. The FAA and the insurance company are just looking for obvious scams.). We are careful that our CFI's, who are also members, understand that they can not conduct any flight training in the aircraft unless the student is a member of the club. Non-member CFI's can provide instructions such as BFR's but only to members. Primary flight training must be from member (CFI) to member (student). We could let a non member CFI's train students and not run afoul of the 100 hour inspection as long as the students were members but we want more oversight and control when extensive training of new pilots is involved. We are probably going to go to approximately 100 hour inspections anyway. We already do the 100 hour on the engine because the 250 - 300 hours a year we fly is too much to let an engine go without that attention. Adding the full inspection will help us spot problems earlier. We will do an annual twice a year and have it signed off as such. This will give us more flexibility to work into shop schedules, stretches of lousy weather, etc. -- Roger Long |
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