DFC
I will have to go deep into the books for the EASA duplicate inspection details and I don't have then here now as you won't be happy untill you get this chapter and verse.
Aircraft that are intended to be de-rigged have never required a duplicate inspection after rigging but these systems are built to be "idiot proof" (unlike this forum!). However even a de-riggable aircraft has to have duplicate inspections on the flying controls if they are disconected in any way apart from that in the POH.
You are showing how out of date you are with the maintenance system as you are correct that you could get an engineers type rating on the B737-200 but it was the last big jet airliner that the CAA would issue a type rating on.
From the mid seventys the CAA would only allow large jet transports to be maintained under a BCAR 8-13 approval so as I said above it reqired an engineers licence (without type) and a company approval to certify the CRS.
So even if an engineer had a type rating on a B737-200 by the 80's he could not certify a CRS without a company approval for the type.
Microlights are not part of the EASA system and so should not be included in this thread.
Last edited by A and C; 16th December 2007 at 16:23.