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Understanding Initiators in structural change – The EASA Regulatory environment and Part OPS.

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November 13, 2012

Steven Bentley

Sofema Aviation Services a leading EASA Regulatory training organization based in Sofia Bulgaria offer a suite of regulatory training courses, to cover the entire scope of EASA Part Ops . The overall goal of EASA was to simply the regulatory environment and to avoid Duplications. To support this separation EASA has developed a structure which…

Further Developments of Maintenance Steering Group Logic MSG-2 – 3

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November 11, 2012

Steven Bentley

MSG 2 was introduced in 1970 primarily as a result of the Lockheed Tristar L1011 and the Douglas DC10 aircraft. A primary consideration was given to further development of the MSG1 methodology which introduced the new concept of condition monitoring, to the existing Hard Time and on condition. Essentially with this concept no specific maintenance…

Approved Maintenance Program (AMP)

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November 08, 2012

Steven Bentley

The AMP describes the operators routine scheduled maintenance tasks which are required to comply with the obligations to ensure continuing airworthiness. In addition it contains the rules by which the operator is approved to operate with the program to include extensions and variations which must be applied. Moreover it describes criteria by which certain tasks…

Airline E&M: Central & Eastern Europe, 20-22 November 2012, Grand Hyatt, Istanbul, Turkey

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November 06, 2012

sofema

European Operators in general and Eastern European Operators in particular have been hard hit by the recession which is now about to enter its 5th year. IATA predicts a net loss approaching 1 billion euros across the European Industry. However these figures mask a reality where some operators and maintainers are doing a lot better…