Originally Posted by
noooby
113 hours is 2 guys working 8 hour days, for 7 working days.
That sounds a bit high for a 100 hour check. IMHO.
Well 113 hours is also 3 engineering related staff working a standard 7.5 hour day, 5 days a week.
That is a better perspective. And when I mean maintenance related staff, that includes the Maintenance Controller looking at the logbooks to see if everything is upto date, check any ADs or SBs have come out in last 12 months, and raise a workpack - that could come to 2-4 hours depending on requirements?
Also, the Chief Engineer and Spares department to liaise with parts suppliers and freight companies.
And engineers doing their normal inspections, plus the time taken to replace those parts or remove & refit those fire bottles.
The labour time and parts seem standard to me. Though I'm no expert when it comes to bills. The more hours you fly, the less the maintenance per hour costs are for a standard routine annual inspection, but then the more hours you fly = larger fuel costs. So you can't always win. Only fly when you need and accept that the bill for those 50 hours seems standard.
Please correct me if I seem that I look at it a different way to others. KP.