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Your drone's manufacturer gives no maintenance schedule. What should you do?

Set up your own scheduled maintenance protocol and keep records.

  1. Skip scheduled maintenance entirely
  2. Set up your own maintenance protocol ✔
  3. Wait for the FAA to assign one

Why: The FAA suggests logging every repair, replacement and part's time in service. Over time, those records let you build a reliable maintenance schedule.

Huh, didn't know that: When a manufacturer does give a schedule, it may be based on flight hours, cycles or calendar days.

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Why did the drone keep a diary? It wanted to track its time in service.
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Sources

  1. AC 107-2A, Section 7.2.1.1 https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_107-2A.pdf

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