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General
Pioneer 300 aircrafts are twin seat, single engine, low wing, hybrid composite/wood structure
monoplane with tricycle landing gear and steerable nose gear. It is an ASTM compliant aircraft
designed to be flown by Sport Pilot rated pilots or higher rated pilots. Additional information on
your particular aircraft type is provided into related POH strictly connected to this maintenance
manual.
WARNING
THIS MAINTENANCE MANUAL CANNOT BE SOLD AND/OR DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT ITS
RELATED PILOT’S OPERATING HANDOOK BECAUSE THIS LATTER CONSTITUTES AN ITS
FUNDAMENTAL PART.
1.1 ASTM F2483-12 Terminology
The following items aim to resume the definitions of ASTM F2438-12 standard that are invoked into
this maintenance manual:
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Heavy maintenance
Any maintenance, inspection, repair or alteration a manufacturer has designed that requires
specialized training, equipment or facilities.
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Line maintenance
Any repair, maintenance, scheduled checks, servicing, inspections or alterations not
considered heavy maintenance that is approved by the manufacturer and is specified in the
manufacturer’s maintenance manual.
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LSA repairman inspection
U.S. FAA-certified repairman (light sport aircraft) with an inspection rating as defined by 14
CFR Part 35, authorized to perform the annual condition inspection on experimental light
sport aircraft or an equivalent rating issued by other civil aviation authorities.
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LSA repairman maintenance
U.S. FAA-certified repairman (light sport aircraft) with an inspection rating as defined by 14
CFR Part 35, authorized to perform line maintenance on aircraft certified as special LSA
aircraft.
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MRA: Major repair, alteration or maintenance
Any repair, alteration or maintenance for which instructions to complete the task excluded
from the maintenance manual supplied to the consumer are considered major.
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100-h inspection
Same as an
annual condition inspection
, except the interval of inspections is 100 h of
operation instead if 12 calendar months. This inspection is utilized when the LSA is being
used for commercial operations such as flight instruction or rental, or both.
1.2 How to read the operational sheets in the annexes
Illustrative instructions are given through accurate operational (OP) sheets listed into the
“
Checklist
of Maintenance Operational Sheets”
attached to ANNEX A. This checklist resumes all the time
intervals and modalities for the correct maintaining of the aircraft and shows the relative OP sheet
required to accomplish a particular task.
Each OP sheet contained in that table follows an Alpi Aviation internal standard, according to
which important preliminary information is written at the header of the document.