SofemaOnline offers Electrical Wiring Interconnect System EWIS – Fuel Tank Safety FTS – Online Training with Voice Over (VO)
FTS owes its origins to the analysis following the in-flight break up of Flight TWA 800 in July 1996. The origins of EWIS in fact go back a lot further but did not take on a formal identity until August 1996 when a White House Commission under the directorship of vice president Al Gore was set up.
EWIS & FTS is a Recurrent training which is applicable to many employees within both the Operator Part EASA M environment and MRO EASA Part 145 environment.
www.sofemaonline.com offers a 2 Day Industry Specific EWIS – FTS online Initial and Recurrent training to ensure your employees have a full understanding of issues concerns and best practices to ensure they remain fully compliant with EASA regulatory requirements.
EWIS was initially introduced as AMC material by EASA through AMC 20-21, AMC 20-22 and AMC 20-23. Unlike Fuel Tank Safety (FTS) this was not driven by primary legislation (It should have been essentially there is little difference in the need for both FTS and EWIS). Тhis was a shortfall introduced by EASA which was later corrected in November 2011 with the enhanced requirement to include EWIS as part of the competence (but note this only applies to 145 - still not “fixed” for CAMO staff in many organisations who have not received EWIS training).
Every year there are literally hundreds of electrical events, incidents & accidents caused by Electrical wiring on commercial aircraft.
Whilst many organisations have procedures related to Fuel Tank Safety processes, there are considerably less in respect of processes and practices related to Electrical Wiring Interconnect Systems.
What Procedures should we consider?
a) Procedures in respect of Tripped Circuit Breakers and how we will manage the associated trouble shooting activities. To ensure that Flight Crew never reset circuit breakers (or reset circuit breakers) unless the procedure is a direct “in flight” instruction driven by documentation available on board the aircraft for example as an OPS Manual procedure.
To also ensure that ground support personnel carry out trouble shooting before proceeding to reset a circuit breaker as simply resetting without additional maintenance activity may be a pre-cursor to a more serious problem and even subsequently a fire.
