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| 07.01.2008 |
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Maintenance Economics
I’d like to comment on David Schober’s article, "The Economics of Aviation MX for GA" ( Aviation Maintenance, May 2008). There are many customers willing to pay first-rate labor charges for first-rate maintenance; there are far...
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| 06.01.2008 |
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Aviation Maintenance: Reader Feedback
Trust and Collaboration are Not Dirty Words I just read your editorial "Somthing’s Amiss" (see Editor’s Notebook, AM May 2008) and felt obligated to write you with my opinion on compliance, communications, certification and...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Aviation Maintenance: Reader Feedback
Mentoring: Good Business Your article on mentoring (see AM’s March 2008 Editor’s Note) was incredible. As an almost 30-year aviation employee who has worked many jobs throughout my career, luckily for me for the same company, I would have never...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Reader Feedback
You Can’t Fight Progress It is not often that I comment these days, one way or the other, on words or positions that come from the mouth of politicians as I have come, in my old age, to hold most politicians in very low esteem. But I feel the remarks...
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| 03.06.2008 |
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Reader Feedback
More GA Info Please I have picked up Aviation Maintenance off and on now since it was first published. Every once in a while there is information about the smaller general aviation aircraft. I have been working on these type of aircraft for 28 years. I have...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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Reader Feedback
Safe Management I commend Bart Crotty on a great article "Defining Safety Culture and Safety Climate," (see AM, December 2007, page 48) but the difference between culture and climate was identified by W. Edwards Deming in the 1950s and could be...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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Reader Feedback
Think Before You Begin I think that if the young people who are considering become aircraft mechanics and technicians had a read of the very interesting article about liability and mechanics found here —...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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Reader Feedback
Only So Lucky I enjoyed reading your article "Two Kinds of People" (see AM, September 2007, page 4). The issue of duty time for mechanics is something I have thought about a lot in the last few years. I have been a mechanic/inspector working in the...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Reader Feedback
A Sad Day for Safety I am an A&P/IA and owner of a small maintenance shop near the California coast. I recently agreed to house and maintain a Macon Aerostar that was getting its 135 certificate. The airplane moved in and in a couple of weeks the feds...
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| 10.01.2007 |
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Reader Feedback
It is Your Signature The problems in the marketplace dealing with bogus and suspected unapproved parts (SUPs) are many (see story August AM, page 18). Everything from beautifully made — but totally fake — helicopter mast slider balls to PT6 power...
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| 09.01.2007 |
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Reader Feedback
The MMEL Trap? I am writing in regard to a June, 2007, commercial edition article by Howie Fuller. While I certainly agree that, "...Master Minimum Equipment Lists (MMEL) are among the finest contributions to aviation safety...." I must take issue...
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| 08.01.2007 |
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Reader Feedback
Father-Son No More In response to our June 2007 Editor’s Notebook (see June AM, page 4), you hit the nail right on the head. I’ve seen more and more older, experienced, mechanics leave the business in the past few years and it’s a shame...
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| 07.01.2007 |
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Reader Feedback: Should Training Be Mandatory?
I read with some interest that the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association is calling for additional maintenance training requirements for maintenance technicians and linked the problems to three accidents as examples of maintenance training issues. I...
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| 06.01.2007 |
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Reader Feedback: A&P Helicopter Rating
In response to the very fine article by Brian Finnegan (see AM Feb. 2007, p. 40) in the February 2007 issue of AM magazine, I would like to give the author my full support and add a few thoughts of my own. As an Airworthiness Inspector who has been the holder...
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| 05.01.2007 |
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Reader Feedback
Will Standards Help? I read with interest the article written by John J. Goglia (see AM general aviation edition, April 2007, page 36). Mr. Goglia has interesting points about higher paying jobs. When you consider the liability associated with being an...
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| 04.01.2007 |
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Reader Feedback: Open Skies or Opening the Floodgates?
Major U.S. airlines will soon emerge from bankruptcy. During this same time financial and economic changes are occuring to help U.S. airlines emerge profitable. This is happening while the Department of Transportation (DOT) issued a notice of proposed rule...
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| 04.01.2007 |
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Reader Feedback: Chain of Events
I read your editorial in the February Aviation Maintenance You need to read the whole accident report, not just the headline grabbing stuff. The mechanics and inspector had been working in excess of 14/16 hours per day, they were critically understaffed, the...
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| 03.01.2007 |
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Reader Feedback: Plans for Composite Mx
How is the airline industry going to cope with the maintenance of load-bearing composite structures? They had a real problem at American Airlines, the airline and Airbus disagreed with each other on the types of non-destructive inspection most appropriate for...
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| 02.01.2007 |
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Reader Feedback
A Better Mousetrap In response to the letter in the September issue of Aviation Maintenance (see AM, Sept. 2006, p. 6) and the article in the May issue (see AM, May 2006, p. 22), the idea of cable blocks is very good! However, I would caution those who would...
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| 12.01.2006 |
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Reader Feedback
Wrong Image? While reading last month’s issue of Aviation Maintenance, I came across an advertisement that I found disturbing. It was a picture of what appeared to be a Native American female, partially undressed, holding a long pipe with a filter on...
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