Civil Aircraft Inspection Procedures

(CAIPs)

A Brief History of CAIPs The Civil Aircraft Inspection Procedures (CAIPs) were first produced by the Air Registration Board (the predecessor to the CAA) in the mid 1950’s. They were developed and amended right up to their withdrawal by the CAA in 1985. During that time, leaflets were added, some were removed, and all were amended in some part. CAIPS was published in two volumes as follows: PART I – BASIC PART II – AIRCRAFT The content material of CAIPs made up a large part of the answers to the CAA’s Licence Without Type Rating (LWTR) exams under BCAR Section L – and still do today, even though the authoritive document is now EASA Part 66 (and previously JAR 66). Although the CAA described them as “not a quotable authority”, CAIPs became the standard guide for aircraft maintenance throughout the World, not just the UK. When they were removed from print in 1985, in its place, the CAA brought out another publication called Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Information and Procedures (CAAIPs). These were also in two volumes, and contained much new information, especially on more modern (at the time) aircraft systems. Some leaflets were almost identical to those in the old CAIPs. But unfortunately, the CAA removed much valuable information from CAIPs in their formation of the new CAAIPs. A situation developed whereby the CAA’s basic licence exam could only be attempted after reading BOTH the old CAIPs and the new CAAIPs. The former not published but copies were available in technical libraries that had the foresight not to throw them out, and the latter too expensive for the average training mechanic to purchase. Thankfully, those “bad old days”, where studying aircraft mechanics had to scrape around for whatever reading material they were lucky enough to get hold of, are over. The new CAAIPs are now free to download in a single volume file from the CAA website, and the old CAIPs are now available to everyone from a variety of sources on the internet (although some are not complete and/or are not the latest version that the CAA were publishing at the time of their withdrawal).

About this CD This copy of CAIPs is a scan of a copy which was updated up to December 1985. It is Issue 32. Some of the leaflets however, are dated many years prior to that. This means that those particular leaflets had not been re-issued since that date. There is evidence that the writers of CAIPs had much longer term plans for them, even at the time of their removal from print. There are many gaps in the leaflet number system (listed as “Reserved” in the original List of Leaflets) and even cross-references within the text of CAIPs, to leaflets which had not yet been written. Where there are gaps in he leaflet number system listed in the Contents of this PDF document, it is because the CAA did not produce a leaflet, or the CAA had withdrawn it prior to December 1985. The exception to this is the majority of the first section – Airworthiness Procedures, Leaflets BL/1-1 to BL/1-5, BL/1-9 to BL/1 -10, BL/1-12 to BL/1-16. These leaflets have not been scanned, even though they were present in the 1985 version of CAIPs. This is because these leaflets refer to legislative procedures which are no longer practiced and have been superseded. The modified versions of these leaflets can be found in the new CAAIPs, which is freely available from the CAA website.

This leaflet is not included on this CD because it is obsolete. The updated version of this leaflet is available in the Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Information and Procedures (CAAIPs) which is free to download from the CAA website.

This leaflet is not included on this CD because it is obsolete. The updated version of this leaflet is available in the Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Information and Procedures (CAAIPs) which is free to download from the CAA website.

This leaflet is not included on this CD because it is obsolete. The updated version of this leaflet is available in the Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Information and Procedures (CAAIPs) which is free to download from the CAA website.

This leaflet is not included on this CD because it is obsolete. The updated version of this leaflet is available in the Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Information and Procedures (CAAIPs) which is free to download from the CAA website.

This leaflet is not included on this CD because it is obsolete. The updated version of this leaflet is available in the Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Information and Procedures (CAAIPs) which is free to download from the CAA website.

This leaflet is not included on this CD because it is obsolete. The updated version of this leaflet is available in the Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Information and Procedures (CAAIPs) which is free to download from the CAA website.

This leaflet is not included on this CD because it is obsolete. The updated version of this leaflet is available in the Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Information and Procedures (CAAIPs) which is free to download from the CAA website.

This leaflet is not included on this CD because it is obsolete. The updated version of this leaflet is available in the Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Information and Procedures (CAAIPs) which is free to download from the CAA website.

This leaflet is not included on this CD because it is obsolete. The updated version of this leaflet is available in the Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Information and Procedures (CAAIPs) which is free to download from the CAA website.

This leaflet is not included on this CD because it is obsolete. The updated version of this leaflet is available in the Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Information and Procedures (CAAIPs) which is free to download from the CAA website.