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Two Approval Signatures for European PMAs
In review of your October issue, the Industry Focus section under Components has an article saying that European companies can make PMA parts. In this article, Roy Allen made the statement that the European equivalent to PMA (EPA) require two organizational approvals while in the U.S. they require one. This is misleading, in fact within the PMA approval process the substantiation package must first be approved by the FAA Aircraft Certification Office (ACO) on all design aspects and once approved by the ACO the substantiation package is forwarded to the FAA Manufacturing Inspection District Office (MIDO) for approval for production. It is true that once these two organizations approve the substantiation package that one PMA supplement is forwarded to the PMA holder. This supplement does contain both organization approval signatures.

Anthony Saenz
Able Engineering

Missing the Philly Website
Thank you for the great info. I used the Philly website every day up to the day they closed it and I miss the data!! If we inundate the FAA with requests to reinstate the website, even with disclaimers between each line, do you think we might embarrass them into opening it up again? I know Ernie Scardecchio would be willing to return the site to its former level. What do you mean it wasn't the prettiest website? All that information was beautiful to an inspector such as me.

Chris Coburn
Quality Control Manager
Aero Ways
New Castle, Delaware

Correction: Two companies should have been included in the November e-logbook story (E-Logbooks: Saving Precious Data, page 50). Information about the two companies follows.

AircraftLogs
A new online system developed by Doug Stewart and Greg Ratliff of Stewart-Ratliff Aviation Services in Columbus, Ohio, AircraftLogs includes many added features on top of the basic electronic logbook function. AircraftLogs offers online aircraft maintenance record archiving and storage, maintenance tracking, pilot flight records and currency, tax and expense records, and discrepancy management. Cost is $400 to $800 per year depending on aircraft type, and the program is designed for owners and operators of general aviation aircraft, including FBOs.

AircraftLogs
Phone: 614-503-4588
Web: www.aircraftlogs.com

Flightdocs
Flightdocs takes paper logbooks and scans them into electronic documents but at the same time uses an optical character recognition program to allow easy indexing of all the content in the files. This makes searching for historical maintenance records much easier, reducing logbook search time by as much as 95 percent, according to the company. Flightdocs also offers a maintenance tracking system to make the data in the e-logbooks more useful. The tracking service includes due lists, service bulletins, ADs, warranty tracking, on-condition items, discrepancy management, and historical tracked data. The Flightdocs e-logbook data is available online for user access at any time.

Flightdocs
Phone: 800-747-4560
Web: www.flightdocs.com