By: wysiwyg - 9th June 2003 at 08:26
There were a few warranty issues with the 330’s.
By: Renato - 9th June 2003 at 01:16
Originally posted by Ren Frew
What do the differently lettered check types entail ? C check, D check etc.
Each operators perform a maintenance schedule in accordance with the recommendations made by the airframe, engine and equipmet constructors. Also, the maintenace programme has to be in accordance with the regulation published by country where it’s being applying. Just to give you an idea, a maintenance checks could be as fallows:
DY Daily check, every day
WY Weekly check, every week
A-Check Equalised A= 500 FH (flight hours airborne)
C-Check C= 15 months + 3 months
L-check Intervals are defined according to the ranks of
of checks from a/c manufacture, e.g.: 5 years
D-Check idem to L-check but with intervals of 10 years
By: EGNM - 8th June 2003 at 22:24
a/c, the same as cars are under warrenty upon purchase, so some of the defects that the manufacturer is responsable for solving are cheaper to bring the a/c bak to the maintainance facility than to contract out to 3rd parties. I suspect this is what the JMC examples are referring to
By: Ren Frew - 8th June 2003 at 18:28
What do the differently lettered check types entail ? C check, D check etc.
By: Whiskey Delta - 8th June 2003 at 17:38
The only time I’ve heard of the manufacturer doing any maintenance was in the airlines own maintenance facility. We were having some “issues” with one fleet and the manufacturer sent out some specialists to do the repair/investigation work themselves. We even had an aircraft suffer some pretty severe damage and it was just contracted out to another facility to do the repair work.
By: LBARULES - 8th June 2003 at 17:28
What was up with the JMC A330s?
By: mongu - 8th June 2003 at 17:27
For rectifying defects, for sure. I think some of JMC’s A330s went back to Airbus.
I would suspect the manufacturers have all sorts of link ups/contracts with the various big maint. companies. You’ll probably see Airbus boiler suits at places like Lufthansa Technik.
The notion of “anywhere, anytime” help means manufacturers send technicians all over the world to help out, offer training and advice and maybe even do some actual work. As an example, BAE Systems has loads of people based in Saudi Arabia on the maintainence side, although probably a lot of them are for work on military aircraft.
Also, some manufactuers have their own maintainence outfits. Rolls Royce certainly does, and they sell you an option to maintain your RR engines if you want.
Some of the more informed members will probably be able to put me right or add more detail as the case may be.
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