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. 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…

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…