I apologize to any spelling errors or to people who really don’t care. I called the AOPA today and I was the first person to voice a complaint. Below is the comments section from the AD and I advise people to give their comments here and there and to the AOPA. I think this is a good example that the FAA solves a problem by throwing more paper work at it. The key point that makes me mad is the before each flight we have to do this. Also we could do this inspection every 25 hours in service. Possible ideas I had to this are making it a part of the 50 hr inspection and require complinence in the maintenance records. I haven’t thought of an amendment to this yet but I think the “before each flight “part is unacceptable to personal owners and especially people who are trying to run a business with Robinson Helicopters. ![]() This brings on another thought, does this mean that if my student crashes a helicopter do to blade debonding and I inspected it is it my fault(their technically PIC and also responsible that the aircraft is airworthy for flight). This Student pilot who will be PIC is also responsible that the aircraft is airworthy for flight. Let’s say I am soloing a student and for that supervised solo flight the student is PIC of the aircraft. For Flight instructors the part where it says, “An owner/operator (pilot) holding at least a private pilot certificate may perform this visual check and must enter compliance”. I do not want to keep the Maintenance logbooks in the aircraft and neither does the FAA (although based of this AD it seems that they want us to) so I will have to figure out a way to keep record of it. Before the next flight I have to do this visual inspection and comply with it in the records per this AD. Before each flight per this, means I have to make record in the maintenance records that I complied with this AD those 3-5 times. Let’s say for this instance I have 3-5 a day. I am a flight instructor and there is times where I will have several flights a day. They want us to record this inspection before each flight. In the AD they also mentioned adding this check to the daily preflight checks in the POH. Checking the rotor blades is already in the daily preflight checks and part of a 100 hour inspection and annual inspection. I think they crossed the line to something that is not practical. This is basically saying that they want us to record in the maintenance records before each flight that we have complied with this. ![]() I highly recommend that pilots and operators give their comments to the FAA and the AOPA per this section of the AD by March 3rd 2008. Would all Robinson owners/operators and pilots please read AD in full. If a pilot finds any area of skin bare metal in the outboard 24 inches of either blade, before further flight, a qualified mechanic must comply with the requirements of paragraph (a) of this AD. An owner/ operator (pilot) holding at least a private pilot certificate may perform this visual check and must enter compliance into the aircraft maintenance records in accordance with 14 CFR 43.11 and 91.417(a)(2)(V). © Thereafter, if the rotor blade has been found airworthy by the inspections in paragraph (a), before each flight, visually check for any exposed (bare metal) skin-to-spar bonded area on the lower surface of each blade within the outboard 24 inches paying particular attention to the last 10 inches before the tip.
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