Annual and ARC revalidation Costs
 

I have just had the above completed on a Piper Arrow and the invoice has come in as at below - it seems steep but this is my first ARC revalidation & annual can others compare their costs?

Annual £1360
ARC Revalidation £340
CAA FEE £80
Annual Technical Library £30
CAA/LAMP Schedule £7.5


total £1, 817.5 ex VAt

Does not include any defect work

Romydog, In terms of hands on labour to carry out the annual inspection how many hours where used?

4o hours are charged for the annual

£34 per hour for a licenced engineer, if only my BMW service garage was that cheap.

With rectification work it came to 5K - I'm sure if your annual BMW service bill came to that much you wouldnt be so cheery!

looks similar to our bills....

If only
 

Romydog, my last one, May17th 2008, came to, wait for it, £11,703.42. :eek::eek:The previous they managed £5350.00. I would think yourself extremely fortunate. The characters who managed the 'big one' charged me 40 hours at £65.00 per hour. They then attempted 44 hours to fit 'wing bolts', and added a further large amount of hours for 'rig check'. I am still arguing the toss. It is a major gripe of mine - 'fair maintenace charges'.:ugh:

"4o hours are charged for the annual" That seems fair enough, I've wondered why the aircraft I fly goes for annual and its not unusual for it to take 3 weeks, when nothing other than routine work needs doing, I'm not privey to the cost though.

Is this a racket or what? How is it that permit aircraft stays in the air for less than 10% of this cost?

<< Is this a racket or what? How is it that permit aircraft stays in the air for less than 10% of this cost? >>
Because we permit pilots (and some C of A pilots with engineering qualifications) do our own maintenance. :cool:

That is certainly part of it but lower engineering overheads and cheaper parts is also a huge factor.