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Aircraft Turnaround Incidents and Ground Damage

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August 01, 2017

Steven Bentley

Airports are hives of activity often 24 hours each day – 7 days each week. Airport Aprons are fraught with danger. Multiple Aircraft surrounded by all manner of equipment, vehicles and personnel, constantly on the move, which all serves to act as a precursor to the apparent inevitably of accidents and incidents. (Whilst we say…

Is your aircraft maintenance program commercially effective? Technical reliability & the commercial argument

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August 01, 2017

Rus Sutaria @ Avia Intelligence Ltd

Is your aircraft maintenance program commercially effective? Technical reliability & the commercial argument. Sofema Aviation Services is very pleased to introduce our Guest Blogger and Senior Reliability Trainer Rustom D. Sutaria of Avia Intelligence, whose depth and breadth of experience is drawn on to bring you the following article. Regulations require the aircraft operator to…

EASA is moving the focus to Performance Based Regulation. What does this mean?

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July 26, 2017

Steven Bentley

Consider the difference between a Performance and Prescriptive regulatory environment A prescriptive or “compliance” based environment consists of rules which need to be followed, such rules are clear and to measure accomplishment is relatively straight forward in respect that it is a Yes or No situation. Where a “No” translates to a “Finding” either as…

How does ISO 9001 & EASA Quality & Safety get along? And can they coexist?

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July 25, 2017

Steven Bentley

Going to New Places ISO 9001:2015 was released in September 2015 ISO – Building on the earlier version of the standard ISO 9001:2015 is moving into new territory – that of risk ! – With more focus on management responsibilities. Note 1– If we combine the function of EASA Quality & Safety it does not…