My surveyor told me as MG, I need up-to-date manuals for approval issue, but they only need to be kept up-to date if the type is actually being managed.
Nice to see some consistency in applying the rule, isn't it! I chuckled at the twin cirrus too, there one in Lincolnshire as well apparantly. I also wonder how many CAMOs do actually have these books to hand!
As an aside, the FAA have suggested I only need a manual revised to the date of build, and also under the FAA, the lifed items saga is dealt with in a more practical way, so it begs the question is that euro reg cessna 172 any better maintained / safer / cheaper than the N reg one sitting next to it on the ramp here in easa-land? What is easa trying to achieve here?