scheduled maintenance Flashcards
3 types of preventative maintenance?
- Flight servicing
- Scheduled maintenance
- Condition based maintenance
Define Scheduled Maintenance?
The minimum preventative maintenance required to be undertaken at regular, pre- determined intervals to maximise aircraft availability and keep an aircraft in good overall condition, minimizing the amount of corrective maintenance required in the future.
An aircrafts scheduled maintenance system will dictate the periodicity of the scheduled maintenance tasks needing to be carried out, either in calendar hours/days or aircraft flying hours and is promulgated by the PT, after consultation with the FLC, in the Topic 5A1 (Master Maintenance Schedule).
What are examples of Scheduled Maintenance?
tasked codes
maintenance packages
life expery
Explain addition scheduled maintenance?
Hot and cold weather ops
Embarked
Desert or Dusty Environments
High humidity environment
Long term storage / transit
It is determined by the DT and laid down in the Topic 5/Topic 2NR SPS. Mshed has contingency based maintenance depending on the environment
There is additional maintenance for aircraft going into storage iaw PL127
What are the latitudes of scheduled maintenance?
Anticipating Schedule Maintenance
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DUE
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Extending Scheduled
Maintenance H - 10%
J - 25%
DT - ????%
Who can defer scheduled maintenance?
Authority level H may defer scheduled maintenance up to a maximum of 10% of their periodicity, but in exceptional circumstances can have their limitation on level H to defer sched maintenance activities up to a maximum of 25%.
Authority level J may defer any scheduled maintenance activity by up to 25% of its periodicity,
How can DT extend scheduled maintenance?
- Extension granted through DT
- Eng records complete the form and send it to DT
- DT will then provide a response
What is Scheduled maintenance IAW?
- Topic 5A1 – Master Maintenance Schedule
- Topic 2 N - Support Policy Statement
- Topic 5A2 – Hazard and Maintenance Information
What does the Topic 5A1 consist of?
- The Master Maintenance List (MML)
- The component replacement list (CRL)
- Component Life Register
What does the Topic 2N consist of?
Special Instruction Technical (RTIs, UTIs, SI, STIs, MGMs Merlin General Messages issued by PT)
Service Modifications inc. Naval Service Modifications (NSMs), Service Engineered Mods (SEM) and Service Mods SMs
Maintenance Policy Leaflets inc. Support Policy Statement & MFRI
Policy Letters – Letters are means of passing information of an urgent or short duration to Merlin units
Locally manufactured equipment
What is Condition based scheduled maintenance?
- The preventative maintenance initiated as a result of knowledge of the condition of an item gained from routine or continuous monitoring
What is the Flexible Maintenance System?
- Tasks carried out individually or as a work package
- Can be timed to coincide with corrective maintenance or other downtime
- This system will tend to generate aircraft quickly, but will involve more frequent requirements for scheduled maintenance.
What are Zonal Ops and how often are they carried out?
A general visual examination of a specified zone, carried out before and after cleaning to detect damage, deterioration and discrepancies and assess the general condition of the zone.
As well as scheduled depth maintenance the following are completed as required:
▪ Rectification of the ADF log
▪ Embodiment of outstanding mods
▪ Outstanding SI(T)
▪ Life Ex component
What are the different lines of servicing?
- 1st line - Maintenance organisation directly responsible for the aircraft. (SQDR)
- 2nd line - Maintenance organisation providing support to the 1st line e.g. workshops sometimes MU)
- 3rd line - Maintenance organisation in the military but not 1st or 2nd line e.g. 1710 Sqn, that require specialist tools or training
- 4th line - Maintenance organisation in industry e.g. rolls-royce/westlands where component cannot be serviced 1/2/3 line (return to manufacturer)
What depth facilities do we have?
- MU facility located on squadron carry out depth facilities, 300 and 600 hourly packages.
- MDMF (Merlin depth maintenance facility) located down at RNAS Culdrose carries out depth packages on the aircraft at certain intervals.
- MFSU (Merlin Forward Support Unit)