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Lesson learned: always read your mechanics maintenance entries!
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A couple of years ago I bought a plane that had pits in the crankshaft ID noted in the logs. That bought me into doing the fluorescent dye penetrant (FDP) inspection of the ID every 100 hours. Last year I asked my regular maintenance shop to do the inspection, as they have on the two previous occasions. When they said it was done I picked up my plane and went on my way. Later that month I got my monthly bill summary from them that included the signed sticker to go in my logs with the associated log book entry for the FDP inspection. I put it in my logs and didn't think anything of it. Now, many months later, I went into my logs to see when it was due next. The entry is for the once every 5 year inpection and it notes that NO CORROSION was found and it is not due for five more years!
Ok, now what.
1- Do I go get a new FDP and continue on my merry way?
2- Do I contact the shop and verify that they actually did the FDP and just sent me the wrong sticker?
3- Do I call it a miracle and don't bother doing 100 hour inspections from here on out since my plane is "cured"?
4- Do I fess up to the powers that be, get the FDP done, and take my lumps?
How the heck do I handle this?
http://www.google.com/url?url=http:...CMOwNQ&usg=AFQjCNHNZMUWlDOBaNZ2UHpX8UJLWx3qLQ
A couple of years ago I bought a plane that had pits in the crankshaft ID noted in the logs. That bought me into doing the fluorescent dye penetrant (FDP) inspection of the ID every 100 hours. Last year I asked my regular maintenance shop to do the inspection, as they have on the two previous occasions. When they said it was done I picked up my plane and went on my way. Later that month I got my monthly bill summary from them that included the signed sticker to go in my logs with the associated log book entry for the FDP inspection. I put it in my logs and didn't think anything of it. Now, many months later, I went into my logs to see when it was due next. The entry is for the once every 5 year inpection and it notes that NO CORROSION was found and it is not due for five more years!
Ok, now what.
1- Do I go get a new FDP and continue on my merry way?
2- Do I contact the shop and verify that they actually did the FDP and just sent me the wrong sticker?
3- Do I call it a miracle and don't bother doing 100 hour inspections from here on out since my plane is "cured"?
4- Do I fess up to the powers that be, get the FDP done, and take my lumps?
How the heck do I handle this?
