I do the work, the A&P/IA "supervises" and does the inspection. It's called an "owner assisted annual". I found a NOS replacement upper cowling nose stamping at a really good price and decided that this was the year to replace the cracked and patched over original part. That led to fabricating a new oil access door on the side of the cowling as well. Then I found that the carb heat airbox was cracked - which the IA missed in his inspection. That led to sourcing used but serviceable parts and re-building the airbox. The oil sump had started leaking, enough that I was smelling burning oil from it dripping on the exhaust, so that resulted in pulling the engine to get the sump (oil pan) off, a new gasket, trying to flatten the mounting flange that is dimpled from having been over tightened some time, re-installing, etc. We also found some corrosion on the battery box mount and three of the mounting rivets, so that is being repaired. The joys of maintaining a 62 year old aircraft, even though it has less than 5000 total hours. No, I couldn't keep and fly it if I couldn't do the work myself. Luckily, my IA trusts my work and even asks me to help him sometimes with his own aircraft.
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 9:00 PM Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 20:25:36 -0600 OK Don via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > Excellent! > > We're about to wrap up a 2½ month annual inspection on the Cessna - > > lots of little things that we decided to tackle this year. > > Apparently you are doing it yourself (my guess, from the > length of time it is taking). > > Are you fixing things which were not required to be fixed? > > How do you get certified to do the annual inspections yourself? > > > Craig > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
