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Sofema Aviation Services www.sassofia.com considers issues related to the need to ensure compliance with Airworthiness Directives in the context of OTAR. Service bulletins often result to issuance of Airworthiness Directives by FAA. An airworthiness directive references the alert service bulletin as a way of complying with the AD. Although a service bulletin may be categorized…

 ESDS Damage Can Be Expensive!……How Expensive? So the short answer is very! Whilst it is difficult to quantify – (one of the challenges to raising awareness) it is believed and understood that a high proportion of Avionic Components failures are in some way connected to ESDS failure. For example consider when Avionic parts are removed…

Essentially the focus of SMS is not in fact compliance it is on Managing Risk and the Purpose of an SMS Audit is to consider Risk Safety management goes far beyond traditional compliance led approaches to auditing. The SMS approach was developed following the identification of shortfalls in the actual process of auditing – you…

Service Bulletins SBs are not mandatory under any regulatory environment (Service Bulletins are subject to the Operator Review Policy) however we should not loose sight of the fact that not performing SBs may affect the reliability of the aircraft. A Service Bulletin (S.B.) is a notice to an aircraft operator from a manufacturer – either…