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Ten Types of Aviation Maintenance Checks

Northstar VFR

1) Line Maintenance Checks Line maintenance checks are the inspections that are performed most routinely. Most of these checks can even be done as the airplane is sitting at the gate because they are minimally invasive, require less tools, and take fewer maintenance personnel.

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Budget Buys and Early Bye-Bye’s

Air Facts

The Warrior has introduced countless people to the joys of light airplanes. It has a mid-time engine (O-320-D3G rated at 160 hp), fairly recent annual inspection and 24 month pitot-ptatic/transponder test. East Coast airplanes don’t belong in Colorado, unless your plans always take you East of I-25.

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Annual maintenance checklist for your iPad

iPad Pilot News

The one side effect from this high level of performance is that it can cause pilots to develop a bit of complacency over time, especially if you don’t periodically inspect your device settings, preferences, app configuration and system updates.