Everybody
I signed off the inspection on my experimental last year on July 1, 2011.
When is this required to be done again?
By July 1, 2012 or by Aug 1, 2012?
The wording of the statement about "12 months" always seemed ambiguous.
Thanks
Mike
Everybody
I signed off the inspection on my experimental last year on July 1, 2011.
When is this required to be done again?
By July 1, 2012 or by Aug 1, 2012?
The wording of the statement about "12 months" always seemed ambiguous.
Thanks
Mike
Your current condition inspection will become invalid on July 31.
Medical certificates work the same way.
Best of luck,
Wes
N78PS
close, but no cigar. it is valid until 2400 on 31 Jul 2012. thus it will become invalid on August 1. thus one may operate until midnight, then conduct the inspection on the 1 Aug 2012, and it will next expire at 2400 on 1 Sep 2013.Originally Posted by WLIU
Last edited by Mike M; 06-26-2012 at 06:33 AM.
Thanks guys.
Both of you think what I think, it is good until the end of July. I'll sign it off on the 1st of August, 2012. In the second answer from cdrmuetzel I don't understand why the annual would roll from 1 July 12 through 2400 on 31 July 12 (the first day of the month through the last day of the month), then the next year it would roll from 1 Aug 13 to 2400 on 1 Sept 13 (the first day of the month through the first day of the next month). Maybe I don't understand something.
Anyway, thanks again, both of you.
Mike
A condition inspection is good for 12 calendar months - that means last day of 12th month, commencing after the month in which the inspection was completed.
"No person shall operate this aircraft unless within the preceding 12 calendar months it has had a condition inspection"
Last edited by martymayes; 06-26-2012 at 07:14 AM.
huh? that's not what you said in the second sentence:
"No person shall operate this aircraft unless within the preceding 12 calendar months it has had a condition inspection"
which is almost what it says in FAA Order 8130.2g:
"No person must operate this aircraft unless within the preceding 12 calendar months it has had a condition inspection performed..."
to operate in july, the inspection must have been performed within preceding 12 calendar months - jun, may, apr, mar, feb, jan, dec, nov, oct, sep, aug, jul, 12 calendar months. to operate in july, inspection must have been performed previous july or later. not starting the month AFTER the inspection is done.
Typically an annual is not completed in one day. When I put my Cherokee in for an annual I can usually figure it will be out of service for about two weeks. It takes a certain amount of time to perform the inspection and then time to fix items on their checklist. So it would be a very rare situation for the annual to do a perfect one month gain each year.
Fixing the discrepancies is not a portion of the inspection. So there is no reason the INSPECTION can't be completed in 1 day.
True, but the inspection can't be signed off as completed and found to be in airworthy condition until the discrepancies are corrected, and the expiration is predicated on the sign-off date.
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True but the inspection can be signed off as completed without the aircraft being in airworthy condition. The "inspection" part of the annual inspection on a light SE fixed gear airplane only takes a few hrs.
FWIW, a homebuilt is not signed off as being in "airworthy condition" during the annual condition inspection.
Last edited by martymayes; 06-27-2012 at 06:18 AM.
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