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| 07.01.2008 |
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License to Learn
Back when I finally received my A&P certificate, I was told by the examiner, "Congratulations. You now have a license to learn." Little did I realize how prophetic those words would be. Since then, I have found that the A&P certificate is...
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| 06.01.2008 |
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Aviation Maintenance: Back Shop: Industry Insights
ATOS It Out ATOS (Air Transportation Oversight System) is a system designed to integrate the airlines’ QA with the FAA oversight function. This highly integrated program would minimize FAA personnel requirements for the participating airlines, and would...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Aviation Maintenance: Back Shop: Industry Insights
For as long as I’ve been in aviation maintenance, there has been an underlying feeling that we (the maintenance community) have to keep the costs down so the poor airplane owners can afford to keep their aircraft. Recently I came to a revelation...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Aviation Safety Managements Systems
What would W. Edwards Deming say about aviation safety management systems? Deming died in 1993 but many of his quality and management principals and concepts keep surfacing in new applications and under new terms, for example, safety management systems...
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| 03.06.2008 |
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A Casual Pickup Encounter
While conducting an aviation safety audit of air charter operator in the Houston, Texas area, I had to return to my hotel about noon to retrieve some work material. I was driving a rental car and had the windows up and the air conditioner...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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Industry Insights
If you were a child of the seventies you’ll remember a 1976 movie called "Logan’s Run." The story line was all about some people living in a utopian society who gathered on their 30th birthday to recycle their "life force."...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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Industry Insights
Both terms, in the early 1990s, slowly started appearing in aviation publications, seminars and the aviation safety lexicon after release of an NTSB fatal accident report. The report concerned the Brent Airways, Inc. d/b/a Continental Express, Embraer EMB 120...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Industry Insights
As an A&P mechanic with a more years of experience than I’d care to admit, I am often asked by high school students whether I would recommend they follow this career path. Having spent the largest portion of my career on airline midnight shifts, my...
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| 10.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Industry Insights
There is an active, yet unspoken, conspiracy against airline and charter safety in America. This conspiracy involves pilots, air carrier management and the FAA inspector corps. In the safety audit business, the common term for this is "Shirt-Pocket...
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| 09.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Industry Insights
Personal, subjective approaches to affect safety emphasize addressing self-preservation, professional pride and concern for public and other workers’ well-being. Another approach could be instilling a respect for aviation objects or equipment used by...
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| 08.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Industry Insights
They say the works of William Shakespeare are immortal. That may be true, but then, so are yours. As long as someone owns or operates an aircraft that you’ve maintained, your log entries, complete with signature and certificate number, are with that...
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| 07.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Industry Insights
Gandhi once said, and it’s true today, happiness (ditto mental health) is when what you think, and what you say, and what you do are in harmony. But I say to my aviation colleagues: a safe/secure/healthy aircraft charter operation is when what...
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| 06.01.2007 |
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Back Shop Commercial Edition: Industry Insights
If you work for a 14 CFR 135 or 121 operator, you probably have seen the Minimum Equipment List(s) governing the equipment with which your aircraft are allowed to fly inoperative. Your Minimum Equipment List (MEL) was developed by someone in your organization...
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