MD11Engineer
9th Oct 2009, 18:39
A few friends of mine have purchased a T-33A warbird (N-registered as an experimental) and asked me if I could do the maintenance on it, since I have a FAA A&P licence.
Now, since the T-33A is a first generation high performance aircraft and is quite complex, I want to set up a proper maintenance programme based on the old military MX schedules, just to stay on the safe side.
To help me with this I´m looking for a computer software, which will not only keep track of flying hours, cycles, oil and hydraulics top-ups, but which can also generate task cards and check packages (obviously the data will have to be entered first from the old paper manuals, but it should alert a few flying hours in advance of a task coming due and should be able to print the relevant task cards as well as keeping track of tasks done). It should also allow materials management (shelf life expiry, generate batch numbers to correlate with the relevant FAA Form 8130-3 or EASA Form 1 and storekeeping).
Another thing is that maybe later the group will purchase additional aircraft, so it should be expandable.
Now the biggest problem: I´m working on my regular job with the Swissair Technik product AMOS, which would be able to handle all of the tasks, but it costs several 10,000 Euros per year, unaffordable for our group. I have also worked with SAP, which I didn´t find so brilliant.
Has anybody an idea for MRO software being used in general aviation?
Now, since the T-33A is a first generation high performance aircraft and is quite complex, I want to set up a proper maintenance programme based on the old military MX schedules, just to stay on the safe side.
To help me with this I´m looking for a computer software, which will not only keep track of flying hours, cycles, oil and hydraulics top-ups, but which can also generate task cards and check packages (obviously the data will have to be entered first from the old paper manuals, but it should alert a few flying hours in advance of a task coming due and should be able to print the relevant task cards as well as keeping track of tasks done). It should also allow materials management (shelf life expiry, generate batch numbers to correlate with the relevant FAA Form 8130-3 or EASA Form 1 and storekeeping).
Another thing is that maybe later the group will purchase additional aircraft, so it should be expandable.
Now the biggest problem: I´m working on my regular job with the Swissair Technik product AMOS, which would be able to handle all of the tasks, but it costs several 10,000 Euros per year, unaffordable for our group. I have also worked with SAP, which I didn´t find so brilliant.
Has anybody an idea for MRO software being used in general aviation?