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| 07.01.2006 |
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Unknowable: The Number of Licensed Mechanics
The Flight Standards front office thinks this should really be directed to the BLS," said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official responding to my request for an interview. BLS refers to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and my query dealt with...
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| 06.01.2006 |
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Editor's Notebook
Annual Maintenance: Is it Enough? Accident investigators are frustrated. When they find and pull from the wreckage the flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), they anticipate that the data and voices recorded therein will help them...
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| 05.01.2006 |
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Editor's Notebook
Towards a Useful Human Factors Program For all of its inertia, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is doing some good, creative, and useful things about human factors in maintenance. Two projects are especially worth noting. A calendar has been produced...
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| 04.01.2006 |
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Editor's Notebook
Recall the aphorism, written in humor, that, "You can have it fast, cheap or right. Pick two." This saying was not conjured based on an aircraft maintenance problem, but it does raise the question about whether specific cases and related aphorisms...
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| 03.01.2006 |
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Editor’s Notebook
Wiring Maintenance When it comes to electrical wiring maintenance, consider the basic rule in medicine: "First, do no harm." Perhaps the best guidance for avoiding inadvertent maintenance malpractice is a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...
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| 02.01.2006 |
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Editor’s Notebook
Challenges As the new editor of Aviation Maintenance magazine, it may be useful to share with the readers my perspective on the major issues affecting aircraft maintenance. This is about people, and the work that they do to ensure the safety of airplanes...
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| 01.01.2006 |
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Editor's Notebook
An Incentive for Maintenance Training If you're one of the nearly 20,000 A&P mechanics in the U.S. who holds the Inspection Authorization, it's that time of year again; you need to renew your IA with the FAA by March 31. To renew, you must either attend...
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| 12.01.2005 |
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Editor’s Notebook
Where Has All the Talent Gone? A painful transition is occurring in the aviation maintenance industry, a shift in the market's need for maintenance technicians with certain skills to a new type of technician who is more comfortable with troubleshooting...
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| 11.01.2005 |
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Editor's Notebook
Welcome to the New Aviation Maintenance The aviation aftermarket is undergoing extraordinary change. And Aviation Maintenance magazine is changing, too. This designed November issue of Aviation Maintenance reflects the trends in the...
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| 10.01.2005 |
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Editor’s Notebook
The FAA Giveth, and Taketh Away In the credit-due department, I have to commend the FAA for finally getting something right on the FAA website. I’ve been complaining for a long time about how much of the data that is important to mechanics is...
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| 09.01.2005 |
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Editor’s Notebook
FAA Oversight, Not Enough At a time when the overworked and under-funded FAA can't possibly take on more work, the Department of Transportation's Inspector General's office released a report highly critical of the FAA's oversight of air carrier maintenance...
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| 08.01.2005 |
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Editor’s Notebook
Reverse Incentives The way the existing certification system for aircraft and engines and components works is backwards. Consider just this one small (true) tale. A manufacturer of aircraft components decides to upgrade the product. After some research and...
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| 07.01.2005 |
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Editor’s Notebook
Go Ahead, Ruin Aviation There are ominous rumblings from the airline sector about aviation user fees. Airline executives seem to think that if the government slapped fees onto general aviation operators, then the airlines' costs would drop and the whole...
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| 06.01.2005 |
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Editors Notebook
The System is Broken (and Here's How to Fix It) Here is what is happening to aviation businesses that are just trying to do the job right and deliver some service to their customers. A company plans installation of a mandated avionics system like RVSM or...
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| 05.01.2005 |
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Editor's Notebook
The Sporty Game, Circa 2005 Boeing and Airbus are diverging in their philosophical approaches to the marketplace. The evidence is not just in the airplane types that both companies are betting on--the giant Airbus A380 and the long-range Boeing...
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| 04.01.2005 |
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Editor's Notebook
What's Happening to Commercial Aviation? The aviation industry is facing tremendous structural changes that will forever alter the prospects of those who participate in the maintenance of aircraft. The big question is, are you aware of these changes...
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| 03.01.2005 |
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Editor's Notebook
Welcome to the Aftermarket New manufacturers that are coming close to entering the marketplace are going to face some unique problems when it comes to aftermarket service for their customers. Eclipse Aviation, Adam Aircraft, and possibly others are...
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| 02.01.2005 |
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Editor's Notebook
Many schools are relying on aged equipment for teaching tomorrow's mechanics. We received unprecedented amounts of feedback from the October editorial, which discussed how U.S. aircraft mechanic schools might better serve their customers. Educational experts...
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| 01.01.2005 |
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Editor’s Notebook
Features and Benefits Welcome to another challenging year in the aviation industry. The past few years seemed like amplified examples of the up-and-down cycles of the aviation industry, with higher highs and frighteningly low lows and everything in-between...
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| 12.01.2004 |
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Editor’s Notebook
Serious About Maintenance? This question has to be asked: does the FAA take maintenance seriously? From all indications, the answer has to be no. There are so many deficiencies in the way the FAA treats the maintenance community that it's hard to know where...
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