"Current" Maintenance Manual

[William Hughes]

I am informed that a subscription to A.T.P. for a current technical manual for the Comanche is a $600.00 US price tag. My mechanic is a straight up licensed structures AMO and wants to make sure everything we do is right and I am right alongside that idea. However, that is a heck of a steep price every year, and I am the only Comanche getting an annual each year in his shop.

While I realize the manuals are on the website, these seem very out of date. Has anyone else run into the issue of having to be able to point to a "current" manual for a Transport Canada inspector? How have you handled it?

[Clarence Beintema]

William,

Contact me at work and I'll see what I can do to help you out.

Clarence
clarence@tricityaero.com

[William Hughes]

Perhaps a more practical question is: What is the most recent date? I note that the manuals in the technical section for a single are dated 1986?

[Timothy Poole]

I thought ATP is an Airworthiness Directive etc. service, not a maintenance manual specific to one aircraft? If so, this should be the AMO's responsibility if they want to use the service for their customers. I use TData's IApproach software for $245 per year and use it on all of the aircraft we provide maintenance for.

Tim

[JIMICS2452]

ATP is a rip off for the individual owner. The only manuals that are mandatory to use are the ones that were available when the plane was made.

[William Hughes]

Thanks to everyone who contacted me with assistance in this matter. Things are progressing at my end and I expect it will work out ok. However, there is a difference between the regulations in the US and Canada. I have had a number of people up here ask if there is anything of a more formal nature concerning the expectation that "current when the aircraft was built" are ok down in the US. We'd like to take some kind of FAA document before Transport Canada and have a bit of a discussion with them?

[Kristin Winter]

[William Hughes]

Thank you, this is exactly what I was hoping for.

[Kristin Winter]

Sometimes it is good to have a lawyer in the family.