Help.
OK, here's the story. Aircraft has a 20 year old engine. TBO 1500hrs. Due to being offline (sometime in 1990s), and nature of flying has low total time ie.TTE 750 - though this is now increasing and averaging 100 hrs pa in recent years.... so about 7 years to go before new engine required...or so I thought.
Always serviced/oil-changed etc... correctly and legally. Runs like a dream, compressions good.
Operated on public cat - so available for rental.
CAA bombshell due new legislation introduced last year says .....
...to keep ac on public cat, because engine is over 12 years old it has to replaced
!!!
Is this true - or just some local interpretation by the CAA ?
Anyone else or any clubs been hit like this ?
I am PH-
-ing angry