How Successful is Aircraft Maintenance Zonal Inspection in your Organisation?
Sofema Online (SOL) www.sofemaonline.com looks at best practice to ensure optimum Aircraft Zonal Inspection within your Organisation.
Consider the following reasons, which have been understood to impact the Inspection process and to also provide an insight as to why Inspection Does NOT “Always” Identify the Problem:
- Visual Inspection is typically 80% of all inspection activities
- Visual Inspection forms a vital part of the many available Non Destructive Inspection (NDI) techniques
- Visual inspection is of the greatest importance to aviation reliability, for airframes, power plants and systems.
- Performed correctly it can detect a variety of defects, from cracks and corrosion to loose fasteners, ill-fitting doors, wear or stretching in control cables as well as damaged components.
What are the Implications if it is not performed correctly ?
As Aircraft Maintenance Engineers, we work in a dynamic industry demanding perfection. Our human errors can have disastrous results. Which is why we must take every possible precaution to ensure we perform our duties in a safe 7 effective way.
How Many of these do you personally identify with?
Note that each of the following “reasons” has been identified following feedback from multiple Inspection Feedback Surveys.
How to Ensure Adequate Mitigation ?
For each of the following items please develop your answer based on the following -This will NOT happen in our organisation because:
1/ Inspection Documentation not available
2/ Documentation not self-contained
3/ Documentation not well-human-engineered
4/ Documentation does not specify inspection strategy
5/ Wrong, broken lighting used
6/ Task Wrong choice of area /access
7/ Missing access equipment
8/ Inadequate access equipment
9/ Inadequate body support during task
10/ Poor posture for simultaneous manipulation and viewing
11/ Difficulty handling light, mirror, Magnifier together
12/ Wrong inspection area limits chosen
13/ Incomplete search coverage by area,
14/ Field of Vision (FOV) or fixation incomplete coverage due to time limitations
15/ Fixation movement too far to ensure reliable inspection
16/ Loss of situational awareness by area or FOV or fixation
17/ Loss of Situational Awareness (SA) and coverage when finding indication stops search process
18/ Defect location not recorded
19/ Defect type not recorded
20/ Defect comments not recorded
21/ Defect location incorrectly recorded
22/ Defect type incorrectly recorded
23/ Defect comments incorrectly recorded
Sofema Online presents the following training specifically developed to support the effectiveness of your Inspection Staff:
https://sofemaonline.com/lms/courses/257-aircraft-inspection-techniques-initial-with-vo/preview
This course is with voice over and equivalent to 2 days classroom training - discounts are available for groups - please email team@sassofia.com for details.
Next Steps
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