Ibra wrote:
I think it’s specific to UK where “maintenance+restaurant+school+hangar+fuel” tend to get combined in one bundle on top of some privately owned runway, but you can always choose to fly you aircraft away elsewhere for maintenance, training and fuel/foodOf course there are big airports where you have load of choices, like Bournemouth ;)
It is one model yes, but not actually that common. And the operator who owns it all is, in my experience at least, more likely to be relaxed. For instance at Enstone the same business owns the northside grass strip, the hangars, fuel supply and the engineering business (but no school). The guy is incredibly relaxed and we are allowed to do whatever we like in the hangar.
More common is the setup where the maintenance companies secure a clause written into their leases that no-one other than a lease-holding maintenance company (i.e. them and perhaps a couple of others at a big place) is allowed to perform any aircraft maintenance anywhere on the airfield. Thus you can’t do your own oil change in your hangar, nor can you get a freelance avionics guy in to fit a radio, etc.
This is a very important document. All is there to put in application. Thank you.
@Airborne_Again wrote:
The MIP is EASA’s own Inspection Programme which only has 100 hr/annual inspections.
Do you have reference to the generic MIP ? What is in it if it’s even not type specific ?
Which software? Very interested!
Will PM you
T28 wrote:
Austria – same as above, although admittedly it is the only country where i saw neighbors protesting an airshow by hiding planks with nails on the grass runway.
Seriously? I do hope a criminal investigation was initiated? This is major offence, will cause years of prison time.
Austria criminal code
Deliberate threat to aviation safety
§186. (1) Anyone who in such a way that the safety of an aircraft in flight can be endangered,
1.
practices violence or threatens to use violence against a person on board the aircraft,
2.
the aircraft in use is damaged or
3.
Aviation facilities destroyed, damaged or impaired in their operation,
is, if the act is not threatened with a more severe penalty according to another provision, to be punished with imprisonment from one to ten years.
(2) The following shall also be punished
1.
who destroys an aircraft in use or damages it in such a way that it becomes incapable of flight, or
2.
who through a knowingly incorrect notification causes a risk to the safety of an aircraft in flight.
(3) If the act results in the death of a person or serious physical injuries (Section 84 (1)) of a larger number of people, the offender is subject to imprisonment of five to fifteen years, but the death of a larger number of People have to be punished with imprisonment from ten to twenty years or with life imprisonment.
A conviction of minimum 1 year is pretty major for austria and will stick on a public record. Usually even criminal law has provisions for milder sentences, not in this case though.
I think it’s specific to UK where “maintenance+restaurant+school+hangar+fuel” tend to get combined in one bundle on top of some privately owned runway, but you can always choose to fly you aircraft away elsewhere for maintenance, training and fuel/food
Of course there are big airports where you have load of choices, like Bournemouth ;)
Spain – no one cares what you do in a hangar.
France – no one cares what you do in a hangar, and if your maintenance company reports you to the DGAC because your maintenance program lacks the 50h, you wave the EASA document if the DGAC inspector bothers calling and you part good friends. Nothing impresses more l’Administration than a neatly stacked collection of crisp official forms. Know your rights, be ready to defend them.
Switzerland & Germany – no one cares what you do in a hangar as long as you can eat off the floor afterwards.
Austria – same as above, although admittedly it is the only country where i saw neighbors protesting an airshow by hiding planks with nails on the grass runway.
Italy – not much aviation left but for what is left, you could take your plane apart and put it back together in your hangar.
Sweden – no one cares what you do in your hangar, and you might even get help from the odd retired Saab tech crew.
The default position in all these places is that the hangars are not property of the maintenance company.
