Appendix VIII — Limited Pilot-owner
Maintenance
Regulation (EU) 2020/270
In addition
to the requirements laid down in Annex I (Part-M), the following basic principles are to be
complied with before any maintenance task is carried out under the terms of
Pilot-owner maintenance:
(a) Competence and responsibility
1. The Pilot-owner is always responsible
for any maintenance that he performs.
2. Before carrying out any Pilot-owner
maintenance tasks, the Pilot-owner must satisfy himself that he is competent
to do the task. It is the responsibility of Pilot-owners to familiarize
themselves with the standard maintenance practices for their aircraft and with
the aircraft maintenance programme. If the Pilot-owner is not competent for
the task to be carried out, the task cannot be released by the Pilot-owner.
3. The Pilot-owner (or his contracted CAMO
or CAO) is responsible for identifying the Pilot-owner tasks according to
these basic principles in the maintenance programme and for ensuring that the document
is updated in a timely manner.
4. The approval of the maintenance
programme has to be carried out in accordance with point M.A.302.
(b) Tasks
The
Pilot-owner may carry out simple visual inspections or operations to check for
general condition and obvious damage and normal operation of the airframe,
engines, systems and components.
Maintenance
tasks shall not be carried out by the Pilot-owner when the task:
1. is a critical maintenance task;
2. requires the removal of major components
or major assembly and/or;
3. is carried out in compliance with an
Airworthiness Directive or an Airworthiness Limitation Item, unless
specifically allowed in the AD or the ALI and/or;
4. requires the use of special tools,
calibrated tools (except torque wrench and crimping tool) and/or;
5. requires the use of test equipments or
special testing (e.g. NDT, system tests or operational checks for avionic
equipment) and/or;
6. is composed of any unscheduled special
inspections (e.g. heavy landing check) and/or;
7. is effecting systems essential for the
IFR operations and/or;
8. is listed in Appendix VII to this Annex or is a component maintenance task
in accordance with points M.A.502(a), (b), (c) or (d).
The criteria
1 to 8 cannot be
overridden by less restrictive instructions issued in accordance with ‘M.A.302(d)
Maintenance Programme’.
Any task
described in the aircraft flight manual as preparing the aircraft for flight
(Example: assembling the glider wings or pre-flight), is considered to be a
pilot task and is not considered a Pilot-owner maintenance task and therefore
does not require a Certificate of Release to Service.
(c) Performance of the maintenance
Pilot-owner tasks and records
The
maintenance data as specified in point M.A.401
must be always available during the conduct of Pilot-owner maintenance and
must be complied with. Details of the data referred to in the conduct of
Pilot-owner maintenance must be included in the Certificate of Release to
Service in accordance with point M.A.803(d).
The
Pilot-owner must inform the approved continuing airworthiness management
organisation responsible for the continuing airworthiness of the aircraft (if
applicable) not later than 30 days after completion of the Pilot-owner
maintenance task in accordance with point M.A.305(a).
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