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Old 26th Mar 2009, 23:56
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Genghis the Engineer
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Depends exactly what you mean by programme?

If you mean the schedule - that which the aeroplane/helicopter is tested to, I have reservations about any non-simple aircraft being tested to a standard schedule, and can't see a common schedule for fixed and rotary wing being even faintly viable. The best person to put such a schedule together would be an FTE with good type knowledge, who is talking to both maintenance technicians and pilots with better type knowledge.

However, if you are talking about a programme of what/when, then it really wants to (once you have schedules) integrate into your maintenance programme as per the old UK LAMS, or the current UK PtF system. A pretty straightforward approach is annually, after whatever is the main annual maintenance check/inspection to conduct an air test between that the return to service.

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