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M-005 Limited Pilot owner maintenance

• EASA workshop
• 01 December 2006
• JP Arnaud

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Part M.A.803Pilot-owner authorisation

• (a) The pilot-owner is the person who owns or
  jointly owns the aircraft being maintained and
  holds a valid pilot licence with the appropriate
  type or class rating.
• (b) For any privately operated aircraft of simple
  design with a maximum take-off mass of less than
  2730 kg, glider and balloon, the pilot-owner may
  issue the certificate of release to service after
  limited pilot owner maintenance listed in
  Appendix VIII.
• (c) Limited pilot owner maintenance shall be
  defined in the M.A.302 aircraft maintenance
  programme.
• (d) The certificate of release to service must be
  entered in the logbooks and contain basic details
  of the maintenance carried out, the date such
  maintenance was completed and the identity and
  pilot licence number of the pilot-owner issuing
  such a certificate.

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AMC M.A.803 Pilot-owner authorisation

• AMC M.A.803 Pilot-owner authorisation
• 1. The pilotowner should hold a valid pilot
  license issued or validated by a member state for
  the aircraft type being maintained.
• 2. Privately operated means the aircraft is not
  operated pursuant to M.A.201 (h) and (i).
• i.e means commercial activities or
  operational activities requiring an AOC IAW the
  national rules
• 3. A pilot owner should only issue a certificate
  of release to service for maintenance performed
  by the pilot owner and after demonstrating the
  competence to carry out such maintenance tasks.

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History / need for such a working group

• JAA times non complex and light aircraft not
  involved in commercial activities were not taken
  into account
• When the EASA was created, it became urgent,
  according to the remit of activities, to develop
  a regulation for non complex and light aircraft
  not involved in commercial activities.
• EASA Appendix VIII was based on FAR43 appendix A
  part (c)

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History / need for such a working group

• Part M was published in 2003 (regulation 2042)
• NPA 07-2005 gave the opportunity to comment part
  M (impact for non commercial aircraft)
• The Appendix was found too limitative. It was
  furthermore proposed re-evaluating the
  applicability of each task in Appendix VIII to
  gliders, balloons, airships and light aircraft.
• EASA accepted that paragraph M.A.803 and Appendix
  VIII should be subject to further re-evaluation
  within the rulemaking task M.005.
• Appendix VIII and M.A.801(b) has been updated.

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5 - History / need for such a working group

• Additionnaly, NPA 07-2005 gave birth to two
  working group
• M-017 comment review and implementation of
  further changes to part M, AMC amendements
  following RIA
• MDM-032 Regulation of aircraft other than
  complex motor powered aircraft when used in
  non-commercial activities
• Comments from both groups about pilot owner
  maintenance will taken on board by M-005

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Additional infoFuture new drafting groups

• Working group M-010 definition of pilot owner
• AMC M.A.803
• A problem was clearly demonstrated by
  associations representing flying clubs. Pilot
  owner maintenance in the case of collectively
  owned aircraft needs to be further developed to
  allow pilots in flying clubs for instance to
  carry out pilot owner maintenance
• Work method agency
• NPA to be issued 2008-04
• Opinion 2009-04

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Part M.A.803Pilot-owner authorisation

• APPENDIXES VII (complex task) and VIII (pilot
  owner maintenance) has been reviewed (NPA
  07/2005)

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State of the play

• Kick off meeting and two meeting were held (July,
  Sept. and Nov. 2006)
• Next meeting mid January 2007
• Composition of the group a balance between
  experts from the General Aviation experts
  (representing flying associations as AEI, EAS,
  OAPA) and NAAs.
• NPA to be published June 2007
• Opinion/Decision to be issued by June 2008

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Pilot-owner maintenance

• Decision already taken for a new structure
• Aircraft
• Gliders
• Balloons
• Helicopters
• Example

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Pilot-owner maintenance

• As from now, the next slides are only options
  that have not been accepted so far.

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Pilot-owner maintenance

• The concept for powered aircraft

3 CRITERIAS a) The weight (MTOW) b) How to
demonstrate the competency? c) How to adapt the
list of tasks to the complexity of the
aircraft? (Flexibility)
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Pilot-owner maintenance general scheme
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Pilot-owner maintenance

• A guidance could be given to the NAA or the Part
  M / Subpart G approved organisation to adapt the
  list of tasks (Appendixes VII and VIII) to
• Can the task be performed by a pilot owner?
• Complexity of the task decision making

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