Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA From: CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: logbooks [ and making photo-copies such documents ] Message-ID: <1048@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 10:04:25 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1048 Posted: Wed Jun 20 10:04:25 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jun-84 00:46:07 EDT Lines: 30 From: Werner Uhrig which reminds me ..... twice, last year, our engine and airframe log-books had disappeared out of one of our planes (we fly as a non-profit corporation with 20 share-owners, each with his own key, scheduling by phone). the first time, the manuals were returned to the plane after a month, and after an extensive phone and letter canvasing of all members. seems that a new member/owner felt the need to study them extensively and forgot he had them and "ignorant" or "insensitive" to the fact that their availability might "come in handy" in the plane - not to speak of the legality of flying without them. the second time, the absence of manuals were discovered a suspicious short time after having been in maintenance. Repeated efforts to get someone to "discover" them were fruitless. So, we were forced to attempt to reconstruct the plane's history and we were lucky enough that most maintenance records could be found at the FBO of the previous owner in California. To say that it was painful and costly to get a new, reconstructed log-book, is putting it mildly. A few months later, the old manuals "reappeared" in the plane without anybody admitting to it. We suspect that it was the maintenance people at the FBO but I guess we'll never know. Ah, yes, the moral: going through the trouble to make annual photo-copies of new entries is now a standard procedure and well worth it ...... don't find out the hard way !!! -------