Perform a flight servicing on a piston trainer

What is going on

Skyreach Flight Training needs VH-SFR, a single engine piston trainer, serviced and ready for a 10:30 am training flight. Work order WO-26-1195 has been raised for a flight servicing: engine oil level, fuel drain checks for water and contamination, tyre pressures, lights, and removal and recording of covers and blanks. The aircraft carries a deferred defect for a stiff pilot side window latch with a placard. Ella Rasmussen will check and certify your work, and after last week's pitot cover occurrence the station is strict about recording covers and blanks on the work order.

Your brief

Carry out the flight servicing tasks on the task card safely and correctly, record each item as you complete it on the work order, check the deferred defect placard, and present the completed record and the aircraft to the licensed engineer for certification.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

• Read the Maintenance Certification and Release to Service Procedure and explain what an apprentice may record and what only the licensed engineer may sign.
• Open work order WO-26-1195 in the Aircraft Work Orders system and the deferred defect entry for VH-SFR in the Defect and Deferred Defect Log and confirm the placard requirement.
• Prepare the aircraft safely on the apron with chocks in place and the area clear, following the ground handling procedure, and lay out the servicing equipment.
• Perform each task on the flight servicing task card in order, recording the oil quantity added, the fuel drain results, the tyre pressures and the light checks on the work order as you go.
• Remove and record all covers and blanks, confirm the window latch placard is fitted and legible, and tidy the work area.
• Complete a tool check against the tools you used and record it, then present the aircraft and the work order to Ella Rasmussen for inspection and certification.
• Record any hazard you noticed during the servicing in the Safety and Occurrence Reports system.

What someone in this role would produce

• Completed work order record with each task and reading
• Covers and blanks record
• Tool check record
• Any safety report raised