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How to Adjust Engine Maintenance Coverage Safely When is it feasible to adjust your engine maintenance program coverage level, and how should you achieve this without unnecessary risk? Chris Kjelgaard asks the industry’s experts…
ngine maintenance program coverage can offer various options, for a variety of monthly payment rates — but not always. The options provided by the coverage available for your engines, usually priced and predicated on a per-flight-hour basis, can depend on the engine type powering your aircraft; the company which made the engines; and the company providing the coverage. Two of the largest Business Aviation engine manufacturers, GE Aviation and Rolls-Royce, have decided for their respective OnPoint and CorporateCare maintenance plans to offer only comprehensive programs, covering all scheduled maintenance requirements; all airworthiness directive compliance work; line maintenance; and most unscheduled maintenance events — particularly those which require an engine to be removed from the aircraft for repair. In cases of ingested foreign object debris (FOD) damage to engines (for which the repair costs above a set deductible amount are covered by the aircraft’s hull and
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liability insurance policy), OnPoint and CorporateCare will also support aircraft owners by leasing them replacement engines and providing engine removal, transport, logistics and installation services. Indeed, Rolls-Royce subsequently introduced CorporateCare Enhanced in 2018, an even more comprehensive level of maintenance coverage, for its BR710, BR725, and brand-new Pearl 15 BizAv turbofan engines. Another large Business Aviation engine manufacturer, Pratt & Whitney Canada, has historically offered four levels of coverage in its Eagle Service Plan (ESP), but is evolving towards two levels for a given engine model - a move that it says is driven by declining interest in the less inclusive plans. By focusing on the two higher level plans, P&WC aims to simplify and streamline the offering and customer experience for its more-than 75 different engine models across the turboprop, turboshaft, and turbofan market segments. www.AVBUYER.com