Continuing airworthiness concerns for aging jet transports has received much attention over the last 15 years. Boeing and other TCH’s developed Supplemental structural inspection programs. In the late1970’s and early 1980’s intended to address fatigue problems. And much focus was placed on fail safe structural designs. The aloha incident became a milestone in respect of…

Aviation Production Planning is a scalable activity, means in a small organization it is an additional duty of production engineering personnel, whilst in a  large organization or an MRO it becomes a significant department. Production Planning is a dedicated element within 145 reference to 145.A.47. So we understand therefore that all 145 & MRO organisations…

Typically a good maintenance Planning Engineer has a strong aviation background, such background knowledge aids and supports the Maintenance Planning role and enables a strong understanding of how to comply with the various tasks. The primary output from Maintenance Planning is a Check Pack, work Pack or Engineering Order, the inputs into Maintenance Planning are…

Sofema Aviation Services offers Quality Audit Training by an instructor with more than 20 years specific audit experience. During the 2 Day Aviation Quality Auditing Training course the delegate is provided with a thorough understanding of the Quality Audit basics and fundamentals including an understanding of the different roles of compliance and performance auditing in…