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| 11.01.2004 |
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Editor’s Notebook
The promise of software integration is finally coming true. The Great Integration A prediction is finally coming to pass; the creation, delivery, and dissemination of maintenance data is joining the modern age. Computers have long promised to help us manage...
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| 10.01.2004 |
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Editor's Note
Maintenance Schools: Look for the Customer We need to get our act together in this industry or we're going to be in a world of hurt when we realize that few young people are joining the aviation maintenance field. The reasons that young people are...
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| 09.01.2004 |
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Editor's Notebook
Big Brother Might Be Watching... If the plans of technology designers come true, some day tiny electronic tags will come attached to almost every part, component, and tool found in hangars and on aircraft. These radio frequency identification or RFID tags...
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| 08.01.2004 |
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Editor’s Notebook
Website Integration: A Challenge for the FAA The FAA deserves recognition for publishing material on the www.faa.gov website. While the site is sometimes difficult to navigate, almost everything the FAA does can be found there. The FAA websites contain all...
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| 07.01.2004 |
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Editor’s Notebook
Who is responsible for making sure outsourced maintenance is done safely? Outsourcing of commercial aircraft maintenance is expected to continue growing. Currently calculated at about 50 percent of most airline maintenance, prognosticators suggest that...
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| 06.01.2004 |
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Editor's Note
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| 05.01.2004 |
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Editorial
There is a large airline that operates DC-10s. This airline has a big problem. The fundamental problem is that if a mechanic screws up and damages an airplane at this airline, there is a formal punishment process that is invoked. And if the mechanic screws up...
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| 04.01.2004 |
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How to Save an Airline (Not!)
At a conference held in 1999, called "Business Strategies for Bankrupt Airlines," executives from top airlines met to figure out how to manage the future. Among the interesting seminars held at the conference, a couple were unusually...
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| 03.01.2004 |
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Fundamental Focus
A recent series of articles in the Charlotte Observer newspaper published starting December 7, 2003 documents some startling statistics. Maintenance has typically been a relatively low factor in the universe of aviation accident causes. But according...
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| 02.01.2004 |
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Stinky Rule
(mthurber@pbimedia.com) The Namby-Pambies are targeting aviation again, this time trying to force a segment of aviation into a stricter regulatory framework. The FAA is proposing that short-distance passenger-tour operations be shifted into Part 135-type...
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| 01.01.2004 |
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Repair Center Directory, Time Out For Safety Award
The 2004 Aviation Maintenance Repair Center Directory, for the first time, is available on the Internet. Now users can access the directory on the World Wide Web at www.directorypub.com/am, and companies can add and update their listing at the same web site...
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| 12.01.2003 |
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Charles Taylor: Mechanic, Engineer?
This year, as the 100-year anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight draws near, a lot of attention is being focused on the two famous Wrights and their extraordinary accomplishment. Yet little attention goes to someone who...
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| 11.01.2003 |
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Opportunity Knocking
It’s late in the year and time for the staff here at Aviation Maintenance to begin assembling our annual Repair Center Directory. And we need your help. Every year, the Repair Center Directory is published in January. The Repair Center Directory is a...
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| 10.01.2003 |
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Where's Our Future
(mthurber@pbimedia.com) The August editorial about aviation mechanic wages seems to have struck a chord. Letters from readers have been pouring in. Many readers say that they are considering or have already quit aviation because the wages and benefits are so...
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| 09.01.2003 |
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So Long, Starship
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Raytheon is busy scrapping the entire fleet of Starships that it built in the 1990s. Ultimately, the 50 or so Starships that Raytheon built fell victim to the unavoidable truths of aviation marketing: first, as well as...
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| 08.01.2003 |
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What’s Wrong with this Picture?
Activity Rate Per Hour Aircraft Maintenance: ���� Light aircraft (piston) $70.00 ���� Business Jet $75.00 ���� Airliner MRO (3rd party) $44.00 Auto Maintenance: ���� Dealership $92.50 ���� Independent $77.28 Flight...
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| 07.01.2003 |
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Mechanics Under Fire
At two days of National Transportation Safety Board hearings on the Air Midwest Flight 5481 crash January 28, 2003, mechanics who worked on the ill-fated Beech 1900D were grilled about their actions during the airplane's final detailed inspection. NTSB...
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| 06.01.2003 |
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Unapproved Parts?
What is up with these Unapproved Parts Notifications that I receive from the FAA? (For a list of UPNs issued since the UPN program began in the early 1990s, see www.faa.gov/avr/sups/ upn.cfm.) UPNs tell an interesting story, starting with the affected product...
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| 05.01.2003 |
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Adapt or Perish
: There is a serious disconnect in aviation between technology advances and regulators’ ability to adapt to changes. Why am I writing about this? The General Accounting Office has released a report, the title of which says it all: "FAA Needs to...
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| 04.01.2003 |
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Sky Docs
A letter from a reader brings up an interesting question: Why do doctors get paid so much more than aircraft mechanics? The letter writer’s doctor expressed interest in his A&P patient’s occupation and assumed that a great amount of training...
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