What type of pen writes on maintenance release?!!
A mate had his pax vomit on the MR. It pretty much washed off due to the wax component 
Remember you need to have "enough" snags written up on an aircraft. If you don't have a similar write up rate to other operators of the same type and age it's a red flag for CASA.
Agree re Space Pen, if that won't write on a surface then you need a paintbrush.
Agree re Space Pen, if that won't write on a surface then you need a paintbrush.
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I find the BIC biros work almost all of the time, have to get it started on another piece of paper occasionally.
Papermates (or whatever the really inky type ones are) never seem to fail either.
Papermates (or whatever the really inky type ones are) never seem to fail either.
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Enough Snags
Metro Man, surely you jest. To suggest that "enough' snags have to be written up for all aircraft of the same type and of similar age being used by different operators to avoid giving a Red flag alert to CASA seems to me to be a bit of a stretch. I hope your tongue was firmly in your cheek when you made that comment.
CASA oversee many different operators and if one has no defects on a twenty year old piston twin over a 100 hours, yet the others have ten defects written up it suggests that either they are incredibly lucky, spend a fortune on preventative maintenance or don't write up snags.
Overseas, there was an airline which never had a defect occur on an outbound sector. Anything which went wrong always happened on the leg back to base.
CASA are like the tax office, they see what everybody does and can pick up something out of the ordinary. If you claim for a medical on your tax return and your doctors bill is ten times the average then expect a query.
Overseas, there was an airline which never had a defect occur on an outbound sector. Anything which went wrong always happened on the leg back to base.
CASA are like the tax office, they see what everybody does and can pick up something out of the ordinary. If you claim for a medical on your tax return and your doctors bill is ten times the average then expect a query.
A clean MR is a red flag to Mr CASA.
It is extraordinarily unusual for an aircraft not to have suffered defects that have been rectified or carried through subsequent flights, in between each issue of an MR or approved equivalent.
A clean MR is almost invariably an indication that the operator and its pilots do not understand and are not complying with the defect recording rules.
It's surprising how many operators and pilots don't understand the circumstances in which it is perfectly legal to fly an aircraft with open defects on the MR or approved equivalent. But never fear: the new, plain English rules will fix all this, in 1998.
that the operator and its pilots do not understand and are not complying with the defect recording rules.
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Oh they understand alright. They are hoping to get away with it without be caught...
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Clear MR between issue of MR's
Gentlemen, I am 74 years of age and I know my eyesight is such as to require corrective spectacles but I cannot find anywhere, in the post of MM which I questioned, where it was claimed the MR "would be clear between issues". Metro Man asserted that "enough" snags had to be written up. Properly maintained, and importantly, properly operated aircraft will not usually suffer as many defects as those poorly maintained and/or poorly operated. Not every maintenance organisation is operated by "shonky engineers" and not all aeroplanes are flown by "cowboy" pilots. I do not think it at all unusual for two similar aircraft being operated and maintained by different companies would have differing numbers of defects.
It's fairly obvious and common sense that when CASA comes through and audits your aircraft's MRs (or your fleets MRs) that if there are ZERO (or almost ZERO) defects. Or defects only ever found at the end of a days operations at home base then something is suss.
Particularly in commercial ops with a handful of aircraft, it's not difficult to discern a pattern that would be worth investigating even if there was no similar aircraft to compare them to.
Particularly in commercial ops with a handful of aircraft, it's not difficult to discern a pattern that would be worth investigating even if there was no similar aircraft to compare them to.
