Comments on: Managed maintenance–the next big thing? http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=742 Online perspective from the editors of "AOPA Pilot". Wed, 22 May 2013 00:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Krie http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=742&cpage=1#comment-45880 Krie Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:20:37 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=742#comment-45880 I really liked the way they came off

]]> By: Marc Coan http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=742&cpage=1#comment-41030 Marc Coan Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:31:55 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=742#comment-41030 SAMM sounds almost too good to be true, for the money. $750 and they do everything but turn the wrenches. As an aircraft broker, I know that most owners don’t spend nearly enough time or money on maintaining their aircraft. Part of it is they just take it to the same place, over and over again, and pay whatever they quote. Or don’t pay if it’s too high of a quote. Anything that will result in our aging birds getting better maintenance is a good thing.

On a different variation, I keep thinking that the number of people who can afford to buy and fly a $600,000 single has GOT to be limited. I think the manufacturers are going to have to offer a direct fractional option, whereby pilots in any major city can lease a 1/10 share of a new single for two years and have every expense but fuel known in advance. Then, in two years, they can do it again…and everything is taken care of. Call a number and they tow it out, then show up, fly, and pay your invoice once a month. I know Air Shares Elite and OurPlane try to offer this, but, as Beech did with its Aero Clubs in the 1970s, it’s going to have to be the planemakers if they want to continue to sell more planes.

]]> By: Oussama Salah http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=742&cpage=1#comment-39511 Oussama Salah Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:23:56 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=742#comment-39511 Managed maintenance should be an option and not a mandated requirements. Maintenance is mandated and this is only a variation on a theme. Regulatory authorities may have to step up surveillance to ensure that owners are maintaining their aircraft properly, after all we pay for this service through tax money.

]]> By: John http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=742&cpage=1#comment-39420 John Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:07:17 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=742#comment-39420 Managed maintenance could be a good thing for those that can afford it and choose to do so. As an active owner for the past 20 years, it might relieve a few headaches. BUT, the danger is that once it gets established, inevitably the Government will require it to be mandatory. And then, there goes the aviation neighborhood; owner/maintainers and freelance A&Ps will be villified as unsafe cowboys that are endangering the public. Don’t believe me? Whoever thought that we would be facing the possibility of costly TSA patdowns to simply fly a Cessna 152 around the pattern?

]]> By: FliegerASS http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=742&cpage=1#comment-39057 FliegerASS Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:42:21 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=742#comment-39057 This ‘managed maintenance’ is currently under discussion for the EU. EASA has proposed a set of rules which are currently under revision. EU pilots in general are very sceptical to such program. Compared to the US are we already confronted with unbelievable (and expensive) maintenance directives which noone believes make any sense. Hopefully does the FAA never copy such nonsens.

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