Seems like a lot of paper-addicts in Engineering then? Helieng's post highlights the main problem with paper. A B757/767 IPC or MM runs to around twenty four inch thick volumes and takes an average 30 manhours per revision. With four revision cycles a year thats 120 manhours (or womanhours as the case may be) a year per manual or 240 per aircraft type for a single user's MM and IPC alone. Add on the gigantic Boeing CMM and WDM for each type and multiply by the number of users and we expend 4000 manhours on manual revisions in our small airline. Get the picture? It may be convenient for the user but paper copy revisions are a huge cost - the equivalent of 76,000 quid in our case. Are digital copies really that much harder to use?
Bus429 old chap, if you insist on working in QA, how do you expect anyone to be friendly?
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