Vol Self Test Flashcards
Using equipment generates what type of maintenance?
Corrective or “unscheduled” maintenance.
What are the two basic types of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance?
- on-equipment
- off-equipment
Maintenance cross-tells are used for what purpose?
To highlight trends, benchmarks, or safety conditions relating to maintenance equipment, personnel, training, or processes.
What should typically be included in a maintenance cross-tell report in addition to details such as national stock numbers, part numbers, and specific location of problem areas?
Background info and History.
What are two major goals of Intermediate Repair Enhancement Program (IREP) meetings?
To increase local repair capability when appropriate and to reduce the overall cost of operations.
In order of increasing capability, what are the three separate levels of maintenance?
Organizational, Intermediate, Depot
Which level of maintenance is performed off-equipment at the back shop level?
Intermediate.
What level of maintenance is used for complex repairs and is located at a major repair facility?
Depot.
What combined maintenance approach modifies or eliminates the intermediate (off-equipment) function, where possible, by consolidating that repair function at the depot level?
2LM.
What type of maintenance facility is a hybrid of 2LM and 3LM and combines intermediate-level maintenance from multiple bases to one location?
Regional Repair Facility.
What type of specialized regional repair facility provides intermediate-level maintenance for selected commodities?
Centralized Repair Facility (CRF).
How can a successful R and M program be defined?
As one that promotes the ability to identify and correct system deficiencies before they affect combat capabilities.
What is the primary scope of the Product Improvement Working Group (PIWG)?
Is to address product deficiencies affecting R and M that the field unit cannot resolve and to resolve deficiency reports that the single manager assigns them.
Who takes the lead in identifying, tracking, assessing, and correcting R and M deficiencies on their assigned air and space equipment and also co-chair the PIWG.
Single Manager.
As and end user, what is your primary focus in the DR process?
Is to identify deficiencies and properly submit reports.
If uncorrected, may cause death, severe injury, or severe occupational illness and no workaround is known?
1A.
If uncorrected, may cause major loss or damage to equipment or a system and no workaround is known?
1B.
Prevents the accomplishment of an essential capability or critically restricts OSS and E, to include interaction with other mission critical platforms or systems, and no acceptable work around is known.
1C.
Adversely affects an essential capability or negatively impacts OSS and E and no acceptable workaround is known?
1D.
Adversely affects technical, cost, or schedule risks to the project or life cycle support of the system, or result in a production line stoppage and no acceptable workaround is known?
1E.
Adversely affects an essential capability or negatively impacts OSS and E and adequate performance is achieved through significant compensation or acceptable workaround?
2A.
Adversely affects technical, cost, or schedule risks to the project or to life cycle support of the system but an acceptable workaround is known?
2B.
Does not affect essential capability but may result in user/operator inconvenience or annoyance?
2C.
Results in inconvenience or annoyance for development or maintenance personnel but does not prevent the accomplishment of the task?
2D.
Other effects, such as enhancements having little or no impact to OSS and E under current requirements?
2E.
What MXG agency is tasked with providing technical assistance for DR’s?
QA.
To the greatest extent possible, how should maintenance be performed?
On a preplanned and scheduled basis.
When the scope of an OI will cross organizational group lines, at what level should it be published?
Wing Level.
What office assumes sole responsibility for the accuracy, currency, and integrity of the contents of an OI and for compliance with it?
OPR
Can an AF civil service employee act as the POC for an OI?
Yes, must be AF civil service employee or Active Duty.
Which section acts as the OPR for the maintenance policy guidance in the MXG?
QA is the OPR for Maintenance.
What type of support agreement governs services provided by US Northern Command to US Central Command?
Inter-command SA ( support agreement ).
What flight within the MXG normally acts as the POC for SA’s?
Normally Programs and Resources Flight.
What is the most important thing you must know about SA’s?
What is in them.
What is historical documentation as it pertains to aircraft and equipment?
Historical documentation is the permanent record of significant maintenance actions on aerospace equipment, including aircraft, engine modules, and designated MDS specific-6 T.O. component.
Who is responsible for determine which items in the MDS specific -6 T.O. Need historical reporting and for informing the single manager so the items can be identified for reporting?
Item manager.
For aircraft engines, when are the printed copies of the AFTO IMT 95’s NOT required to accompany end-items upon transfer to/from another location?
When that location has access to the necessary MIS to retrieve the historical information.
During what type of transfer do helicopter blades and tail rotor blades have to be accomplished by printed copy of their AFTO IMT 95?
Upon transfer into the disposed system.
Upon transfer of engines to and from a depot maintenance facility, who is responsible for ensuring all basic engine components have been accounted for?
The maintenance facility that preserves the engine.
What aircraft engine documentation is an AFTO IMT 95 primarily used for?
Used to document accumulated cycles, operating time, & maintenance history, as well as pertinent manufacturing data for jet engine wheels.
Which maintenance information system is considered to be the standard AF base-level automated MIS?
IMDS-CDB
Used to pre fill/print AFTO Form 781 A,J, and K.
Aircraft Automated Forms.
What subsystem of IMDS-CDB can be used to order parts?
IMDS-CDB/SBSS.
Allows monitoring of manpower resources?
Maintenance Personnel.
Updates/monitors approved/actual aircraft configuration?
Generic Configuration Status Accounting System (GCSAS)
Gives capability to forecast and schedule training?
Training Management.
Gives the ability to update aircraft operating times?
Automated Debriefing
Used to create, schedule, and change work center events?
Maintenance Events.
Supports flying operations in three phases?
Operational Events.
Provides monitoring and control of TCTO progress.
Time Compliance Technical Order.
Automates location of aircraft, misses, and AGE?
Location.
Allows forecasting of TCTO’s and time changes?
Inspection and Time Change.
Tracks engines/components for time change?
Comprehensive Engine Management System (CEMS).
Tracks maintenance on test equipment?
Automatic Test Equipment Reporting System (ATERS).
Replaced the Maintenance Data Collection System?
Job Data Documentation (JDD).
Monitors Estimated Time in Commission (ETIC)?
Status and Inventory Reporting.
In regards to MIS data integrity, what are work center and shift supervisors responsible for doing?
Responsible for reviewing, on a daily basis, the data entered into their respective MIS by personnel under their control.
What section guides the data integrity team process and is responsible for ensuring the MIS data provided to maintenance managers is meaningful and factual?
MOS/MMA section
MOS-Maintenance Operation Flight
MMA-Maintenance Management Analysis
What section is responsible for correcting incorrect and erroneous data entered into the MIS?
The section that entered the data.
As roadmaps, what can maintenance management metric, if used properly, help you to determine?
Where you have been, where you are going, and how ( or if ) you are going to be there.
What are two major categories that metrics are often divided into?
Leading and Lagging indicators.
What type of performance indicator shows s problem first, while it is impacting maintenance’s capability to provide resources to execute the mission?
Leading indicators.
What type of indicator shows firmly established trends?
Lagging Indicators.
The best known yardstick for measuring a unit’s performance?
Mission Capable Rate (MC).
Average number of deferred discrepancies across the fleet of possessed aircraft?
Deferred Discrepancy Rate (DDR).
Percentage of “Code 3” aircraft repaired to flyable status is set time, i.e. 4,8, or 12 hours.
Fix Rate (FR).