Cockpit Placards

[A Squared]

At the bottom of the AD, there is usually a name and phone number. You can contact this person and request an alternate means of compliance or AMOC, to use a placard that says the same thing, and that matches the other placards in your particular aircraft.

I've done this several times on numerous aircraft.

Good point about the AMOC

 

[atrdriver]

Also heard a story of a guy getting his King Air ramp checked and the inspector noticed part of the CLOSE--> sign on the door was rubbed off so he told the guy his plane wasn't airworthy. So the guy goes in the plane and comes out with a roll of duct tape and a sharpie and makes himself a placard. The tool from the fuzzdo couldn't argue and he was free to go.

Happened to me once on an ATR. FAA Maint Inspector said we were not airworthy cause once of our exterior placards had torn off. After talk to our maint and deciding it would take something like 5 hours to get a new one to us, the inspector said it didn't "have" to be a placard, the words just had to be there. I borrowed a magic marker and wrote it on the side of the plane, and she was happy with it.