Aeronautical Science: Private Aircraft Ownership



Federal Aviation Administration

Statement of the question: Comprehensive Question 01

What should be considered when owning, operating, and maintaining a private aircraft? Discussion should include advantages and disadvantages of aircraft ownership, types of aircraft ownership, regulations governing flight operations, and maintenance criteria found in FAR?

Outcome 01

Following are the consideration that is required to own, operate and maintain the private or charter aircraft. The company or a person needs to divide two separate programs that are required to meet the needs of aircraft owners and operators. The program ground support, a customer can choose different services, while for aircraft owners who wish to generate complex concerns that are daily flights, Private aircraft offers a comprehensive management program turnkey devices.

Management services offer aircraft owners and operators of solutions, tailored to their specific needs. Management of Private aircraft includes aircraft planning services for domestic and international flights, scheduled or on demand, a crew, maintenance and assistance to airlines, as well as general administrative tasks, including those for insurance and accounting. Moreover, the savings to society through the large volume of its fuel purchases, insurance premiums and other operating costs are passed on to customers. If they wish, Private aircraft can even charter the aircraft to a customer so it takes advantage of its capital and reduce its fixed costs. The program helps the organization of Private aircraft can be considered extension departments of aviation insofar as they maintain full control over the operation of their equipment (Schneier 2006).

Outcome 02

The outcome two discusses the maintenance of the private charter plane. Maintenance services, repair and modification of aircraft known as business, are the main activities that eventually led to the founding of Private aircraft in Basel in 1967. Today, all major manufacturers and leading authorities on internationally recognized professional qualifications of Jet Aviation's maintenance and repair of aircraft (Stark & Matt 2008). The group can support almost all types of devices: the helicopter turboprop jets up to the size of an airliner turbojet dual-stream. Private aircraft is also responsible for maintenance of Airbus A319 Corporate Jetliner, Boeing Business Jet, Boeing 707 and 727 and the McDonnell Douglas DC-9.

Private aircraft maintains and repairs most groups propellants used in business aviation. Piston engines, turboprop and jet are some examples. Less complex repairs or inspections so-called Hot-Section, as the exchange of entire units or partial revisions, are also part of these benefits. Private aircraft also offers a maintenance service for non-destructive testing, liquid penetrant (dye penetrant), eddy current, ultrasonic examination, radiographs and ComScan.

The maintenance of an aircraft includes the airframe, power-train, avionics systems, the layout of the cabin and cockpit (Schneier 2006). All subsidiaries of Private aircraft are able to offer these services. The maintenance department is the largest group, representing approximately half of total revenue.

Outcome 03

Outcome three discusses the advantages and disadvantages to own a private aircraft. The continued expansion of world trade is a cause for the rapid growth of air cargo traffic in recent decades. Air freight recorded by all transport modes and ...