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The following is what I sent in to CASA today.
This article was under the header of Flight Safety Advisors – Albert Fleming – FSA Sydney, so I will address my thoughts to him. Dear Albert,
Nice piece of Swiss Cheese (James Reason would be proud of you).
Based on the story content only and taking it on face value we are clearly looking at several serious breaches of common sense by senior management, not to mention legislation. Lets just deal with the common sense matters here and leave the CAR’s CASR’s CAO etc etc to others to wax lyrical about.
i) The maintenance specialist should have observed the data entry process carefully to ensure our IT guy did it correctly.
ii) As soon as the maintenance specialist became aware of the AD he should have telephone all affected outstations to ensure they were aware of the very short compliance time line and he/she should have faxed a copy of the AD to each outstation.
h) Event is logged into the companies SMS dB and the following recommendations are entered and acted upon:
i) CASA are advised of the breach by the MC and the corrective actions being undertaken.
ii) A deputy MC position is established (If not already in place)
iii) All involved are trained/retrained on the required procedures. This includes AD processing and computer data entry.
iv) Emergency plans reviewed to ensure loss of IT capability is adequately covered
v) Quality Systems Manager to carry out several random audits of the process over the coming months to ensure the system operates as required.
vi) The audit findings are also logged in the SMS dB.
Anyone interested in a very good SMS dB should contact me. I am currently (This may change with time) offering a FREE dB tool to clients. There will of course be some costs involved in installation and training of key staff. In the short term I would be more than happy to send you a demo CD.
Dear fellow LAME’s,
A few days ago I was made aware of what appears to me to be a potentially serious situation.
As you would all be aware Australian aircraft must be registered under new rules. The following is a cut and paste from CASA web site.
Registrations cancelled by CASA (other than by request) The registrations of the aircraft shown in the list below have been cancelled by CASA since 1 May 2006.Note that the aircraft’s certificate of airworthiness is no longer valid and the aircraft must not be flown. Flying an unregistered aircraft is an act punishable by law with up 2 years of imprisonment. It will be necessary to apply for a new registration should you intend to return the aircraft to the register at a later date.
Please note: Aircraft included in this list may have subsequently been re-registered under CASR Part 47.If you require any further information regarding an aircraft in the list you should contact the Aircraft Data Section of the Australian Civil Aircraft Register: Now what concerns me is “How many LAME’s out there actually check that the aircraft they are asked to perform maintenance on is still legally registered?”.
I have carried out a few 100 hourly’s (Call them what you will) in my time, but I can never, other than during an initial CoA inspection, recall viewing the CoR or CoA.
Just remember this, if its not registered then its CoA is not valid, it must be reissued. Indeed even if it is registered after the drop dead date of 1st May 2006 its CoA is still invalid. And of course a non-valid CoA will negate the issued Maitenance Release and any insurance cover.
Now take a look at the VERY LONG list of deregistered aircraft on CASA web site on the same page as above. Do you recognise any REGOs there. There are over 400 and they are not all amateur built types either. Sure there are a few (Very few) that are due to being BER.
You might like to pass this message onto to your mates in the industry. If it stops just one of them issuing a fresh MR when they shouldn’t its been worth it.
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