IFR 2 Year Check

[aerobat95]

Hey guys I have my 2 year checkup coming due in May.  I was wondering how much I should expect to pay for something like this?  Also, is this something that I can have done in an afternoon?  Finally, anyone know of a good place somewhere kinda close to Enid, OK (KWDG) to take it to?  As always thanks.

 

Ray

[Cruiser]

Here is a summary of flight review information

http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/sa03.pdf

Any CFI can perform a flight review, it consists of ground (regulation review and latests changes to the FARs) and flight (handling and performance of manuvers). IF you are instrument rated the CFII will probably include some hood and approach work also.

[John Pleisse]

I pay a great freelance CFII $50 an hour and stay current with 3 hours work. 2 air 1 gorund.

[xftrplt]

Quote: aerobat95

Hey guys I have my 2 year checkup coming due in May.  I was wondering how much I should expect to pay for something like this?  Also, is this something that I can have done in an afternoon?  Finally, anyone know of a good place somewhere kinda close to Enid, OK (KWDG) to take it to?  As always thanks.

 

Ray

[bnicolette]

In this area they are around $300 and yes if there are no problems they can be done in a couple hours.  It takes longest to set the equipment up.

 

[rbridges]

If it was the IFR check for the plane, I believe I paid $200 at a place in Griffin, GA.  I don't know how that compares elsewhere.

[thinwing]

well Ray,as you can see by the variety of answers,your question generated a bit of confusion..I think because you have mixed two different currancy requirements...Ifr currancy check is only after failing to log 6 approaches within 6 months,either actual or simulated ...so that after a 12 months period without logging the ifr requirements...than its an instrument competancy check with a cfii...the two year check ,as already mentioned,is the biannual flight review,an instrument procedures are usually not even covered..than there is the two year transponder and static system done on the aircraft before legal for ifr flight...perhaps the miltary has different checks,but I assumed you were talking about faa part 91 requirements...kpc

[thinwing]

on snd read,he must mean the aircraft static ,transponder check...("take it too")...about 300 where I am based Ray..usually done by an avionics shop..kpc

[xftrplt]

...he must mean the aircraft static ,transponder check....

Apparently.  How about a little specificity in the OP?

Suggest:  http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Military-Writing-William-McIntosh/dp/0811727793

[pjsny78]

I paid $325 for a mode S transponder IFR Ck.

its a little cheaper for a mode C

[KSMooniac]

Ray, Bevan-Rabell at KICT did mine a couple years ago when I got a new transponder.  I'm in the Yingling shop this week for prop work, and I'm having them do it since the plane is there anyway.  It doesn't take long, so you could fly in and wait if you schedule an appointment and let them know your intentions.  I don't remember the costs, but it should be around $200 +/- IIRC.

[Hank]

Wow, Scott! I'd love to spend some time in the Yuengling shop! But I would need to RON while awaiting the FAA's 8-hour bottle-to-throttle minimums . . .

My last pitot-static check went quickly; the one before required replacing lots of tubing, sending out the altimeter, sending out the rebuilt altimeter [hate it when the replacement arrives out-of-tolerance!] then the ASI. THEN I got to fly her again, but it took a couple of weeks. Don't remember the cost, it got lost in the CFII charges and fuel bills, as it was during my Instrument training and immediately following the annual.

[jetdriven]

I remember Yingling Aviation.   Back in 2000 my buddy dropped off his Cardinal RG for an annual inspection.  3 months and 8000$ later we pick it up. No new cylinders, overhauled powerpacks.  Nothing at all, really.   I remember they charged .8 hours (~60$) to change the o-ring on the IO-360-A1B6 dipstick.  The real shocker we discovered later. We went to jack the airplane to change a tire.  We always left the jack plates on the wing but they were in the glove box after the annual. We soon discovered why, Yingling had somehow put the jack through the wing, and put a scab patch plate over the hole with dome rivets. Now the jack plate wouldnt fit on the wing. Of course they denied it. 

 

Now here is one I CAN prove.  The previous owners of our aircraft were fleeced for 819$ to remove, reinstall, and time the bendix dual mag.   819 $.   

[Immelman]

At my airport we have a travelling service that visits once a month. My IA brings him the business (all the airplanes due that month). Its great because my airplane doesn't leave its spot. I just leave the key for someone and pay the bill later. I don't remember the exact figure but the whole pitot/static & transponder check costs around $200.

[danb35]

To the folks who are talking about lack of specificity, or suggesting CFIs--what IFR two-year check is there for the pilot?  The flight review has nothing to do with IFR, and instrument currency has nothing that goes on a two-year schedule.  There's no mixed messages or requirements anywhere in the OP; it's obvious (if less plainly stated than might be ideal) that he could only be talking about the aircraft checks.

The transponder, altimeter, and static checks can be done in a few hours, assuming there's nothing wrong with any part of the system.  I paid about $400 last time I had mine done, which was too much--I should have shopped around a bit.

[1964-M20E]

I just spent $354 for the pitot, static and XPNDR check on my plane.  They said they fixed a leak in the static system as well and they are the only avonics shop on the field. So it looks like it is $250 to $400 for the check and it is requried every two years.  As for the pilot that is a different beast.

[xftrplt]

Quote: danb35

To the folks who are talking about lack of specificity, or suggesting CFIs--what IFR two-year check is there for the pilot?  The flight review has nothing to do with IFR, and instrument currency has nothing that goes on a two-year schedule.  There's no mixed messages or requirements anywhere in the OP; it's obvious (if less plainly stated than might be ideal) that he could only be talking about the aircraft checks.

The transponder, altimeter, and static checks can be done in a few hours, assuming there's nothing wrong with any part of the system.  I paid about $400 last time I had mine done, which was too much--I should have shopped around a bit.

[KSMooniac]

Ugh.  Yingling was $380 for my pitot-static and transponder check.  No repairs/adjustments made for that price...

[jetdriven]

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[danb35]

FWIW, I just had it done at EKX (Elizabethtown, KY--near Louisville).  $250, no repairs needed.  Nice airport, too.

[Top Heavy]

$200 single unit IFR pitot static check Brainerd MN

[jlunseth]

The 2 year check is like an annual - its not the cost of the inspection that you fear, it's that they will find something that needs to be fixed.

[AndyFromCB]

I remember Yingling Aviation.   Back in 2000 my buddy dropped off his Cardinal RG for an annual inspection.  3 months and 8000$ later we pick it up. No new cylinders, overhauled powerpacks.  Nothing at all, really.   I remember they charged .8 hours (~60$) to change the o-ring on the IO-360-A1B6 dipstick.  The real shocker we discovered later. We went to jack the airplane to change a tire.  We always left the jack plates on the wing but they were in the glove box after the annual. We soon discovered why, Yingling had somehow put the jack through the wing, and put a scab patch plate over the hole with dome rivets. Now the jack plate wouldnt fit on the wing. Of course they denied it. 

 

Now here is one I CAN prove.  The previous owners of our aircraft were fleeced for 819$ to remove, reinstall, and time the bendix dual mag.   819 $.   

 

Wait till you're done with a SID on a Conquest II. My buddy is still suing them…$315K bill for what was supposed to be $110K worth of work…Some shops exist for no purpose other than padding bills. Yingling is one one them…I have grown to despise majority of large Part 145 repair stations. 

[Marauder]

The 2 year check is like an annual - its not the cost of the inspection that you fear, it's that they will find something that needs to be fixed.

Like a stupid static drain that costs $127.

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