Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Understanding Basic Aircraft Aging

The AOPA provides an excellent short course on aircraft aging based on aircraft that a person may purchase for personal use. There are multiple videos to assist in understanding how aging occurs and that aging is not just caused by time passed.

According the AOPA aging comes from three main reasons:

  1. Flight Activities
  2. Maintenance Performed
  3. Damage History

That aren't the only reasons and any small thing can cause additional aging. Think how the aircraft is stored or animals that get into the aircraft and build nests. All of these can affect the age of an aircraft.

This class is great for pilots that have a Certification because at the end of the course there is a test that will create a certificate. Sadly the author of this blog is not pilot certified and could not get her certificate despite properly completing the course. She would still recommend going through this course for basic knowledge (even if you aren't pilot certified). Even with all the interactions the author was able to complete the course in about 2 hours with an average reading speed.

AOPA. (n.d.). Aging Aircraft. Retrieved June 10, 2014, from AOPA Aging Aircraft Certificate Course: http://flash.aopa.org/asf/agingaircraft/swf/flash.cfm?keycode=FX07CRS&offercode=FX07CRS

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  1. UnknownJune 11, 2014 at 3:37 PM

    Nicole, I believe this is a good topic to write about, but as other students this post was an article / comment and not about our HW. Tuesday night's HW was supposed to be like an abstract telling the class about what you were going to cover naming 2 goals and 3 objectives and why you thought this topic was important. I have found this to be the fourth student who did post articles/comments. Please ref my post on my website. Edward Cobb

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