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A briefing document by Steven Bentley MD Sofema Aviation Services www.sassofia.com Helicopter (Rotary Wing) Maintenance Considerations. It is a fact of life that Helicopters require far more maintenance per flying hour than fixed wing. The also require extra TLC (tender loving Care !) which translates into the importance of managing competences to the highest standards….

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…

Please be very careful when you see the terms AR and or OR in connection with EASA Part Operations regulations as these terms are now redundant. Steven Bentley MD of Sofema Aviation Services explains further How it Was going to be –   Part AR  – The key elements of Part-AR included the oversight of…