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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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| 12.01.2006 |
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Technology: A Love/Hate Thing
Let’s start a trend. You and I. Let’s toss out our computers. And Blackberries, and cell phones. Let’s get rid of all the technology we don’t understand, even if it occasionally makes our lives easier, better, or more enjoyable; and...
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| 11.01.2006 |
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Editor's Notebook
The old saying goes, "The only constant is change." Nowhere, it seems, does that quote have more significance than in the aviation industry. Events of the past five years have taken the maintenance sector of aviation from the threat of a mechanic...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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How Not to Handle the Press
Let me see if I got this right: the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) barred its inspectors from talking to a reporter about contract maintenance facilities, so Mike Gonzales, in his capacity as a representative of the inspectors' union, the Professional...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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The Unknowable
The Unknowable I wish to pose some counterpoints to your article (see AM, July, p. 4, 'Unknowable: The Number of Licensed Mechanics'). The article is centered around the issue of aviation maintenance safety, with regards to the "work" being...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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The Silence That Suffocates
Aircraft mechanics and troops returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have one thing in common: potential and long-term hearing loss. I write from experience, having served in Vietnam combat and as a Marine Corps artillery officer for years afterward...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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The Silence That Suffocates
Aircraft mechanics and troops returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have one thing in common: potential and long-term hearing loss. I write from experience, having served in Vietnam combat and as a Marine Corps artillery officer for years afterward...
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| 08.01.2006 |
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Human Errors in Aviation Maintenance
Airline flying is becoming less safe, and maintenance errors are playing an increasing role in the reduced level of operational safety, according to a study directed by professor Gary Eiff at Purdue University's Department of Aviation Technology in Lafayette...
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