Hi friends, I have question. My fellow mechanic raise interesting question. As per discussed in this session, everybody understand that the MEL time clocking starts at 0:00 of the next day of the "discoverty".
My question is:
Q1) If defect is found in c-check, and it was impossible to rectify the defect, the starting potint of the MEL should be the next day of A/C RTS signed-off?
Q2) Or should the starting point still be next day of the discovery?
Q3) Some of my colleague suggested MEL is originally intended for the use of operation (not for maintenance) and applying MEL meant degrade of the system redundancy, so, it is normal to have the attitude to fix such defect until dock-out. Yes, but if the parts not arrived and need to A/C back to base, what's happen?
If any regulatory guide line exists for such scenario, please let me know (if you can post the web link, it is very happy).