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| 07.01.2008 |
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NASA’s ASRS Protects Mechanics, Too
Since 1976 the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS), a voluntary program that encourages reports from aviation personnel including mechanics, has received hundreds of thousands of submissions. The ASRS receives the reports, processes and analyzes them, and...
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| 06.01.2008 |
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Aviation Maintenance: Editor’s Notebook
How Long for the Boom? As you no doubt quickly learned after entering the aviation arena, our industry is cyclical. There are boom times and slow times. I have seen this cycle play out numerous times in the past 30 years. Catastrophic events like Sept. 11...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Aviation Maintenance: Editor’s Notebook: Something’s Amiss
I attended the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation Infrastructure hearing last month regarding Southwest Airlines and the FAA. The hearing was riveting. Something is amiss at the FAA in terms of dealing with serious safety issues, not to...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Editor’s Notebook
Blame Game In early March the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it was initiating an action to collect a $10.2 million civil penalty from Southwest Airlines for operating 46 planes without performing mandatory inspections for fuselage fatigue...
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| 03.06.2008 |
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Mentoring
Was anyone else forced to read the Greek myths or Homer’s "Odyssey" in high school? I was. At the time, I thought of them as pure drudgery. Even the dreaded Shakespeare was better than these ancient and obscure stories. But, as I have grown...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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Editor’s Notebook: The Coming Revolution
We asked Jim McKenna, editor of our sister publication Rotor & Wing, to give us his perspectives on the coming changes in helicopter maintenance. Here are his thoughts. — Ed. A revolution is brewing. Driven by a confluence of factors, it is picking...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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Lead the Way
At the recent Federal Aviation Administration International Safety Forum acting FAA Administrator, Robert Sturgell, addressed the need for the aviation industry to embrace and "become activists for safety management systems (SMS)." Is this just...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: On the FAAST Track
The FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) has produced its pocket calendar again for the coming 2008 year. The calendar highlights a dozen human factors that can lead to mistakes in aviation maintenance. The calendar is a handy pocket size to make it easy to carry. The...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: From the Trenches
Joy Finnegan, Editor [jfinnegan@accessintel.com] When we gathered the information for our salary survey, we received many eloquent comments in the section regarding the issues affecting the maintenance industry. One writer said, "There are so many varied...
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| 10.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Creating a Positive Environment
I was never in the military, but I recently read a book about leadership written by a Navy captain. I’d like to share some ideas of the book with you and recommend that you read it. The book is called, "It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques...
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| 09.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Two Kinds of People
One of my favorite pieces of wisdom from the great Abigail Van Buren (better known as Dear Abby) is this: "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who take advantage of others and those who allow themselves to be taken advantage of." Major...
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| 08.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Stylin’ and Profilin’
Welcome to our annual Profiles issue. In our Profiles section you will find information about some of the most innovative and interesting companies in the aviation maintenance business. As a reader, I always enjoy these as a way to learn about the business...
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| 07.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Pay It Forward
When you first entered the aviation maintenance employment arena, you probably weren’t thinking about the money. You were probably just enamored with the idea of getting your hands on an aircraft whether it was a Cessna 172, a military jet or simply a...
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| 06.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Aretha Got it Right
Respect. It’s a simple concept, but where does that word come into play for the aviation maintenance career professional? Industry-wide, but especially at the airline level today, mechanics are feeling less than appreciated. According to a recent New...
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| 05.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Personal Minimums
In February and March we published a two-part series on the critical nature of procedural compliance. We have received tremendous positive feedback on those articles. Everyone from the FAA to the airlines has contacted me to discuss those articles. I just...
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| 04.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Who’s Minding the Store?
When you drop your clothes off at the cleaners, each piece is typically marked first, then bundled up in a clearly marked bag of some sort and sent off to a clearing-house laundry facility. Most of the little cleaners in your neighborhood are just...
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| 04.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Consolidation
Buzzwords in the aviation industry are a dime a dozen. But consolidation is one buzzword that continues to bring features and benefits to the industry, and its customers, that might not have been foreseen. It also seems to be something more than a trend...
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| 03.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Working Together
In my last Editor’s Notebook I wrote about a test I had taken in fourth grade and how I learned about following procedures from that lesson. I also introduced you to the terms PiNC and PuNC and how those terms relate to aviation maintenance. I was...
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| 02.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Don’t get PuNC’d
I had a terrific fourth grade teacher. Her name was Mrs. Brunt and she called us Brunt’s Bunch. She was one of those once-in-a-lifetime teachers that made an impact and made learning fun and interesting. It is imperative that the maintenance industry...
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| 01.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Gratitude
A pilot relayed this story to me once. He was doing a quick turn in L.A. The first officer (FO) and the captain discussed a division of duties so that all the things that needed to occur in the short 30 minutes they were scheduled to be on the ground would be...
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