Aviation Maintenance Bournemouth

[EDFLY]

Thinking of putting my aircraft in to Aviation Maintenance for its next annual can anyone tell me if they are any good?

[madlandrover]

Personally I think you could probably find better - AVM tend to go more for fleet maintenance rather than individual aircraft. I've had a number of unpleasant experiences in their aircraft, but in all fairness the worst can't be blamed on them. If I do insist on flying diesels things will happen... They're also having possible CAA issues at the moment related to an engineer signing off an aircraft he wasn't qualified to work on. I don't know if Keith Smith still works out of Old Sarum but he was one of the few AVM engineers I really trusted, worth a try perhaps?

[EDFLY]

Madlandrover thanks for the information I have asked around and not hearing any good things said about them.

[RWESTPA28]

Friend of mine had an annual done by AVM they missed 2 ADs and they over charged him on the time it took to do defects, he said he would never go back to them.

[IO540]

I cannot speak of this company one way or the other (never heard of them, in fact) but as a totally general comment it is almost impossible to find a UK aircraft maintenance company, or an avionics shop for that matter, on which all of their customers (those that you can locate and contact) will report positively.

If you can get 50% "good" reports then you are doing exceptionally well.

It's easy to keep one's plane legal. Just send it to a maintenance company at the appropriate intervals.

But, having been an owner for 8 years now, I've come to realise that the only way to keep one's plane working properly and to assure that the various airframe (mechanical) parts reach their proper design life of many years, is to go for the absolutely cheapest bare-bones Annual, and implement a progressive maintenance regime at the 50hr check intervals.

Unfortunately this assumes the owner is technically savvy and willing to build relationships with trusted freelance individuals.