vee-tail-1 wrote:
Look up:-
http://ad.easa.europa.eu [EASA Airworthiness Directives Tool] Very useful just enter your aircraft type in the search box and all relevant ADs are displayed.
Unfortunately not so. I tried this for my glider (Schempp-Hirth Open Cirrus, first manufactured 1967) and the site said no ADs. I know this is not true!
Looking at the search boxes, the earliest ADs you can search for seem to be from 2003. If, as with my aircraft model, there have been no reported problems in recent years, then the site returns no matches.
I suppose if you know all ADs to date have been complied with this might be OK, but as someone pointed out previously there are recurrent ADs which, if older than mid-2003, this site won't show.
The User Guide section specifically states that the site is to inform users about new or amended ADs, so it might be worth registering to get these automatically via email. For older ADs you need a different source (the BGA site for gliders, for example).