Tip: Useful Online Documents for Building Your RV

[chaskuss]

I want to thank Gil Alexander for all his excellent posts with links to useful tech info. Gil had posted a link to Chapter 7 of the Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook. I'm going to post links to some of the free documents I've found most useful.

Complete Aviation Maintenance Technicians Handbook

http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/a.../amt_handbook/

AC 43.13-1B - Acceptable Methods, Techniques, and Practices - Aircraft Inspection and Repair [Large AC. This includes Change 1.]

http://www.faa.gov/regulations_polic...cumentID/99861

For reasons unknown, I could only access the link above using Internet Explorer. Foxfire could not connect to it.

I would suggest downloading these to your hard drive, as the links may change [or disappear] in the future.

Please add your favorites.

Charlie

[flion]

My FireFox (3.6.23) worked just fine. I'm not worried those documents will go away, I found them from the main site awhile ago and I'll find them again if the FAA ever reorganizes their site.

What I really appreciate is all the manufacturers who are jumping on the .pdf bandwagon. I have the installation and user's guides from TruTrak, Dynon, Garmin, Vertical Power, and so on, in most cases before I even have the equipment so I can do some real installation planning without committing - which, of course, led me to committing in the end. Good for them, good for me. I like that GAHco puts a lot of hardware info out there, too. Manufacturers, take note. If you're not doing this, you're making it harder for customers to make informed buying decisions, which will lead to support problems and returns later. Plus, it makes distributing updated documentation so much easier and cheaper.

[David Paule]

The nice thing about PDFs is that they can be put on an iPad and looked at later, even when there's no internet connection. Caveat, I'm not using Apple's iCloud and don't know if that precludes having stuff on the actual device.

Dave