Originally Posted by vee-tail-1
Not so! have a look at the CAA link posted above by David Roberts.
Vee-tail-1
I'm intimately familiar with the contents of the AIRCOM, but your post is still wrong!
As I stated, an aircraft in the uncontrolled environment cannot have its ARC extended by a Part-66 engineer or even by a CAMO. What the alleviation for ELA-1 aircraft now allows is for an approved Part-66 LAE to conduct the airworthiness review, rather than requiring the review to be done by a CAMO. Having done the airworthiness review the Part-66 LAE cannot
extend the existing ARC, and cannot issue a new ARC. Rather, he makes a recommendation to the CAA, and they issue a new ARC. See 6.3 of the AIRCOM.
If a CAMO with the appropriate privilege conducts the airworthiness review for an aircraft in the uncontrolled environment then he can issue a new ARC directly - i.e. prints it off and hands it to the owner. He does not
extend the existing ARC. See 6.2 of the AIRCOM.
The option to extend an ARC is only available where the aircraft has been in the controlled environment for the last year. This is, in a way, a special privilege because it is done without the requirement to conduct an airworthiness review. The extension is done by the CAMO completing a certification on the existing ARC regarding the controlled environment.
If that doesn't make sense to you, try this: look at Figure 1 in the AIRCOM and find the two boxes that say "Extend ARC for 2nd/3rd year" - you can only get to these via the "Aircraft is in a controlled environment" box!!!