John,
I did not make the Season debrief but my questions from the season opener were still not answered. I submitted a formal request under the contact us link and nobody replied to me either. We have 3 Cessna 172s in our group that are all on the MIP and each aircraft completes approx 200 hours per year. The "Pitot Static functional check" requires an appropriately rated Engineer with extensive equipment to perform a Functional Test (A test which the recording of results is mandatory) .
Cessna only require this check every 2 years but in the case of the MIP its every 100 hours, therefore we have to do the Functional Check every month in the case of the hours that we perform. Each functional check of the pitot static system costs us 700EURO from an organisation with the equipment. This is too expensive, many indivuals have commented on my thread and everyone has a different opinion. Many saying that the CAMO can decide that the functional check is not required but in fact the regulation says that no check can be reduced to one below the MIP so therfore it must be repetitive every 100 hours or 12 months.
Please can you help elevate this issue.
Kind Regards,
Andrew
