Docs and regs Flashcards
(12 cards)
Which documents are required to be in an airplane?
AROW:
Airworthiness cert
Registration
Operating limitations (placards, instrument markings, operating limitations found in the POH)
Weight and Balance info
How to determine that an aircraft is airworthy?
- Required documents are on board
- Inspections and Airworthiness Directives are up-to-date (review airplane logbooks)
- pre-flight inspection passes
Minimum equipment required for daytime VFR under FAR 91.205
Flight instruments for how far, how high, and how fast:
-altimeter
-airspeed indicator
-magnetic direction indicator
-tachometer
-oil pressure gauge
-oil temp gauge
-fuel gauges
-safety belt for each occupant
-shoulder harness in front seat (if mfg’d after July 1978)
-emergency locator transmitter
-anticollision light system, red or white (if mfg’d after March 1996)
-retractable gear? landing gear position indicator
-liquid cooled engines?
coolant temp gauges
-constant speed prop?
Manifold pressure
-Flights at high altitude?
oxygen equipment
Min equipment requirements for VFR night flight
All daytime equipment plus:
-Position lights:
-red left wingtip
-green right wingtip
-white tail
-Anticollision light system, red or white
-An adequate electrical source for all installed electrical and radio equipment
-Spare fuses (if the electrical system uses them)
How to handle inop equipment that is not required per the POH or FAR 91.205:
- Deactivate the equipment
- Placard the equipment as INOP
When must the transponder have been tested and inspected
At least the past 24 calendar months
How often must the altimeter and pitot-static system be tested
At least every 24 calendar months
ELT maintenance and inspection
-Inspected every 12 calendar months
-Battery replaced(or recharged) when it has been in continuous use for more than one cumulative hour or 50% of it’s useful life has expired
How to obtain a special flight permit?
Form 8130-6 submitted to FAA Flight Standards District Office (FSDO)
Preventive maintenance that may be performed by a pilot per 14 CFR Part 43
-Changing the engine oil
-Replenishing hydraulic fluid
-Servicing landing gear bearings
-changing a tire
-replacement of small standard parts not involving complex assembly (ex landing lights, seat covers…)
Maintainance requirements for major repairs/alterations that affect the aircraft’s operation in flight
-Completion of form 337, Major Repair or Alteration
-Test flight by a PPL or above, without passengers
-Test pilot entry in the aircraft’s maintainance records
POH Sections
1) General information
2) Operating limitations
3) Emergency Procedures
4) Normal procedures
5) Performance
6) Weight and balance
7) Aircraft and systems description
8) Handling, Servicing, and Maintainance
9) Supplements
