How would you answer this?

minitour said:
Money and time.

Given enough of both, you can make just about any aircraft airworthy. Without enough of either one, no aircraft will be airworthy. Then I'd tell the examiner to lick my starfish, your an idot, and I'm discontinuing the exam because "I feel ill".

-mini
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Fixed it for ya (see bold). Ask me a revelant question. Not some half cocked, lets see if I can bust you question. Seems moe like a question you'd ask an A&P.
 
Brian Z said:
This was an actual question on a CFI ride and failure to answer this correctly is one of the reasons the applicant busted the ride;

What two things do you need to make an aircraft airworthy?

Airworthiness encompasses so much how can it be narrowed down to just two items? I am close to my CFI ride so it bothers me I cannot come up with what I feel is a good answer. The only two things I can narrow it down to is compliance with all required maintenance and the original airworthiness certificate.
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Forgive me if this has already been answered, because I didn't take the time to read all of the subsequent posts.

My best guess would be that the answer he or she was fishing for was "meets its original type certificate and all subsequent airworthiness directives". That isn't a completely correct answer because there is a third qualification and that is "meets any supplemental type certificates that have been applied". An annual inspection is basically an inspection to validate that those three standards are met.
 
Brian Z said:
The answer he was looking for was...100 hour and annual inspections. Stupid question as there was not even talk about an aircraft for hire. The question could be worded much better.
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Ah, now that I've taken the time to go back and read the posts, I would add that the person who asked that question really had no idea about airworthiness. An aircraft could have come out of an annual yesterday and been run over by a steam roller the next day and it would still have the annual and (maybe) a 100 hour inspection, but it certainly wouldn't be airworthy.

Stupid question with an even dumber answer from the examiner.
 
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