Docs and regs Flashcards
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
