Flight Manuals and Other Documents

is limited to work that does not involve complex assembly • Cleaning or replacing fuel and oil strainers or filter operations including the following: elements; servicing batteries, cleaning balloon burner pilot and main nozzles in accordance with the balloon • Removal, installation, and repair of landing gear manufacturer’s instructions. tires and shock cords; servicing landing gear shock struts by adding oil, air, or both; servicing gear wheel • The interchange of balloon baskets and burners on bearings; replacing defective safety wiring or cotter envelopes when the basket or burner is designated as keys; lubrication not requiring disassembly other than interchangeable in the balloon type certificate data removal of nonstructural items, such as cover plates, and the baskets and burners are specifically designed cowlings, and fairings; making simple fabric patches for quick removal and installation; adjustment not requiring rib stitching or the removal of structural of nonstructural standard fasteners incidental to parts or control surfaces. In the case of balloons, operations. the making of small fabric repairs to envelopes • The installations of anti-misfueling devices to reduce (as defined in, and in accordance with, the balloon the diameter of fuel tank filler openings only if the manufacturer’s instructions) not requiring load tape specific device has been made a part of the aircraft type repair or replacement. certificate data by the aircraft manufacturer, the aircraft • Replenishing hydraulic fluid in the hydraulic manufacturer has provided FAA-approved instructions reservoir; refinishing decorative coating of fuselage, for installation of the specific device, and installation balloon baskets, wings, tail group surfaces (excluding does not involve the disassembly of the existing tank balanced control surfaces), fairings, cowlings, filler opening; troubleshooting and repairing broken landing gear, cabin, or flight deck interior when circuits in landing light wiring circuits. removal or disassembly of any primary structure • Removing and replacing self-contained, front or operating system is not required; applying instrument panel-mounted navigation and preservative or protective material to components communication devices that employ tray-mounted where no disassembly of any primary structure or connectors which connect the unit when the unit operating system is involved and where such coating is installed into the instrument panel (excluding is not prohibited or is not contrary to good practices; automatic flight control systems, transponders, and repairing upholstery and decorative furnishings of the microwave frequency distance measuring equipment cabin, flight deck, or balloon basket interior when the (DME)). The approved unit must be designed to be repair does not require disassembly of any primary readily and repeatedly removed and replaced, and structure or operating system or interfere with an pertinent instructions must be provided. Prior to the operating system or affect the primary structure of unit’s intended use, an operational check must be the aircraft; making small, simple repairs to fairings, performed in accordance with the applicable sections nonstructural cover plates, cowlings, and small of 14 CFR part 91 on checking, removing, and patches and reinforcements not changing the contour replacing magnetic chip detectors. to interfere with proper air flow; replacing side • Inspection and maintenance tasks prescribed and windows where that work does not interfere with the specifically identified as preventive maintenance in structure or any operating system, such as controls, a primary category aircraft type certificate or STC electrical equipment, etc. holder’s approved special inspection and preventive • Replacing safety belts, seats or seat parts with maintenance program when accomplished on a replacement parts approved for the aircraft, not primary category aircraft. involving disassembly of any primary structure or • Updating self-contained, front instrument panel- operating system, bulbs, reflectors, and lenses of mounted air traffic control (ATC) navigational position and landing lights. software databases (excluding those of automatic • Replacing wheels and skis where no weight-and- flight control systems, transponders, and microwave balance computation is involved; replacing any frequency DME), only if no disassembly of the unit is cowling not requiring removal of the propeller or required and pertinent instructions are provided; prior disconnection of flight controls; replacing or cleaning to the unit’s intended use, an operational check must spark plugs and setting of spark plug gap clearance; be performed in accordance with applicable sections replacing any hose connection, except hydraulic of 14 CFR part 91. connections; however, prefabricated fuel lines may be replaced. 9-11