Sport Pilot Talk

roger lee · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:49 am Post subject: Rotax school

This is just an update note.

If you are doing SLSA maint as an A&P or RLSM-A then you need to have the appropriate Rotax level school behind you to be legal. After you have the Rotax schooling you will need to attend a Rotax update school every two years to stay current and authorized to work on Rotax engines. Failure will take you out of compliance and cause you to be open for action against you by the FAA and the pilot is also open for this action. There have already been two cases. One A&P lost his license for one year and the other was fined $3K. I just attended the first update school myself for Service, Line maint and Heavy maint. Ask some questions of your mechanic and make sure he is not putting you out of air worthy compliance and out of your insurance and leaving you and him open for some type of action. Jabiru also wants you to attend their schools, too. The update school is a one day event and covers you for the Service and line maint. If you want Heavy maint then you have to take that class all over as it now includes the 914 and is three days. The reasoning for the 3 day renewal class on the Heavy maint is that most mechanics don't do enough of it to stay up on procedures.