From the Back CoverMAINTAIN SAFER AIRCRAFT — AND A SOUNDER BOTTOM LINE
This distinguishable resource helps managing directors construct and run efficient, reliable, and cost-effective airline maintenance programs. Former Boeing official and now Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University teacher Harry Kinnison’s Aviation Maintenance Management shows you each step of planning a maintenance program and getting it up and running. More than that, it helps you:
* Save cash by sustaining aircraft to a higher popular
* Minimize aircraft downtime while slashing maintenance and repair costs
* Apply schemes conceptions for bettered integration and communication
* Upgrade technical and provisioning functions
* Improve efficacy in meeting regulatory necessaries
* Identify and monitor maintenance program difficultnesses and trends
* Stay on top on quality assurance, quality control, reliability standards, and safety issues
* Fine-tune your approach to the humane components in maintenance
About the AuthorHarry A. Kinnison, Ph.D., worked for the Boeing Company for 20 years, 10 as a specialist in the Maintenance and Ground Operations Systems Group of the Customer Services Organization. Specifically, he represented Boeing to airlines on the ETOPS (extended-range twin-engine operations) program, participated in airline maintenance evaluations, and helped airlines create reliability programs. Since his retirement from Boeing in 2000, he has taught aviation maintenance management courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. He invented this book because no suitable text for courses such as his existed.
Aircraft Maintenance
This distinguishable resource covers aircraft maintenance program development and operations from a managerial as well as technical perspective. Readers will learn how to save cash by minimizing aircraft downtime and slashing maintenance and repair costs.
* Plan and control maintenance
* Coordinate activenesses of the respective work centers
* Establish an basi maintenance program
* Develop a systems conception of maintenance
* Identify and monitor maintenance difficultnesses and trends
Flying in the sky like a free bird has always been a dream and motivated the Wright Brothers to invent this marvelous machine called Aircraft. But to ascertain optimal performance, reliability and safety from it, you need to maintain the Aircraft as well.
Aircraft Maintenance has two main critical functional models- preventive maintenance and requirement-based maintenance. In Preventive Maintenance, a lot of extra steps are commonly taken to protect the aircraft from snags that could perhaps occur in future, like wing inspection after each flight to foresee and rectify difficulties that could perchance develop difficulties while landing or in the air.
Requirement Based Maintenance involves rectifying the problem as and when it occurs, i.e., it is requisite specific. It ordinarily involves critical activities, so instructions are normally prepared proactively for each foreseen problem to assure minimum time wastage for the duration of it is occurrence.
Aircraft Testing is the most critical operational action that maintenance technicians perform. Every part, like wings, fuselage, tail plane, pumps, valves and communication equipment, is inspected and without delay substituted if found problematic.
Testing procedures are commonly repetitive, complex and meticulously designed. These procedures are disunited into sure levels depending upon the kind of maintenance the aircraft needs. Under normal conditions, an aircraft is inspected after each flight (Level 1) and subsequently the level increments with increments in flying hours. The experts suggest getting the Aircraft checked each six months at a Maintenance Yard for indepth inspection.
Taking passenger safety into account, Aircraft Maintenance has never been considered as an popular maintenance activity. International Aircraft Maintenance agencies like the Federal Aviation Administration (USA), EASA (Europe), and AIATA (Australia) have laid stringent rules and guidelines for Aircraft Maintenance to assure greatest or most complete or best possible safety for passengers.
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Most helpful client reviews
3 of 3 persons found the following review helpful.
 Entry-level
By Aldren M. Santos
If you have more than 2 years of experience working on aviation maintenance environment, forget this book, there is not one thing new…but if you are starting your career, this book may gives you an utile overview..
After this book, try others affiliated to Reliability.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
 Great Textbook
By T. Wilson
This textbook is for a very specialized subject, Aviation Maintenance Management. The author has a wealth of psychological result of perception learning and reasoning and experience in the field and shares that all around the book. The book is mainly geared toward civil aviation maintenance management and in queer the airlines. However, the selective information and explanations are elaborate sufficient to cover the subject, yet easy to read. Tables and figures are placed appropriately in the text to reinforce learning. The book is coordinated logically and may be used by any professor to build a class curriculum around it. The appendixes add depth to material by talking about uncommon, but applicable subjects. Finally the author has well documented the text with references to the FAA Regulations, Advisory Circulars, and reports. In summary this is an magnificent textbook for use in a classroom surroundings or as a stand alone book to further one’s psychological result of perception learning and reasoning of Aviation Maintenance Management!!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Complete
By A
This book is a good reference for those that are enter in the Aviation Maintenance World, is very complete.
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