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For HW: details on how these inspections are carried out , Battery CT Test, 06 Months
Inspections, 50 Hrs Inspection, 100 Hrs Inspection, 300HR/1 Year Inspection (Compressor
Split), 12 Months Inspection
For FW: details on how these inspections are carried out: out of the below mentioned
inspections, which inspections are carried out on AP BNr .
PROJECTED
MAINTENANC
E ON APU:
S.NO INSPECTION
1 APU - 400 HOURS APU
2 APU - APU SPECTROMETRIC OIL ANALYSIS SERVICE BULLETIN
To move an airplane through the air, thrust is generated by some kind of propulsion system
Thrust is a mechanical force that is generated by the engines to move aircraft through the air.
Most modern airliners useturbofan engines because of their high thrust and good fuel
efficiency.
A turbofan engine is the most modern variation of the basic gas turbine engine.
Turbine is a machine for producing continuous power in which a wheel or rotor, typically fitted
with vanes, is made to revolve by a fast-moving flow of water, steam, gas, air, or other fluid.
In the turbofan engine, the core engine is surrounded by a fan in the front and an additional
turbine at the rear. The fan and fan turbine are composed of many blades, like the
core compressor and core turbine, and are connected to an additional shaft.
How does a turbofan engine work? The incoming air is captured by the engine inlet.
Some of the incoming air passes through the fan and continues on into the core
compressor and then the burner, where it is mixed with fuel and combustionoccurs. The
hot exhaust passes through the core and fan turbines and then out the nozzle, as in a
basic turbojet. The rest of the incoming air passes through the fan and bypasses, or
goes around the engine, just like the air through a propeller. The air that goes through
the fan has a velocity that is slightly increased from free stream. So a turbofan gets
some of its thrust from the core and some of its thrust from the fan. The ratio of the air
that goes around the engine to the air that goes through the core is called the bypass
ratio.
Because the fuel flow rate for the core is changed only a small amount by the addition
of the fan, a turbofan generates more thrust for nearly the same amount of fuel used by
the core. This means that a turbofan is very fuel efficient.
REVErSE THrUST: And when you are landing, so much speed is not good.
Therefore, reverse thrusters may be used at the pilots' discretion to maintain
appropriate speed while landing.
Aft: Meaning to pull back on the yoke. It may also describe the back/tail location or region
within an aircraft cabin. Example: "Aft lavatory". The difference between aft and stern is
that aftis the inside (onboard) rearmost part of the vessel, while stern refers to the outside
(offboard) rearmost part of the vessel.
TOWING: The forward movement of an aircraft, usually with engines off, using the
power of a specialised ground vehicle attached to or supporting the nose landing
gear. It may occur for the movement of both in service and out of service aircraft.
ROTABLES
'Rotables' are those components of the aircraft which need to be 'rotated' at frequent intervals. For
example, the tyres of the plane will have to be changed when they finish a certain number of landings
(let us say 250 landings). There could also be a necessity to change a tyre when unusual damage is
seen on it before it completes the life. Similar is the case with components like oil filter, and many
such other small components.
Airlines or operating companies are expected to keep a stock of such items in their own store. "How
many pieces of each item is required to be kept" is answered in a 'recommended scale' supplied by the
manufacturer. Such spares are called rotables. But then, for major components such as an engine,
you also know roughly when it would fall due for replacement and then, you could demand a new
engine from the company just about two weeks or so before the anticipated date of replacement.
However, there could be a necessity to replace the whole engine when it gets damaged due to some
reason like bird strike or a damage due to some debris sucked in into it while on ground or probably a
serious internal damage that was unforeseen. To cater for such eventualities, a couple of whole engines
could also be in the list of such items on recommended scale for an airline having some twenty aircraft
on strength. Essentially, when such an item becomes due for replacement, the time needed would be
whatever is the actual needed for removal of the old and fitment of the new. The aircraft is ready for its
next flight within about an hour or two --- of course, the replacement of engine and its priliminary
testing could take more than a day too.
There is another set of components or aircraft parts that are changed only when a damage is found on
the existing item. Such items would not be usually made available in the stores and they are demanded
from the supplier only when it is necessary to replace one of them. Usually, there could be more than
one item of such nature in the aircraft --- for example, a radio set --- and, aircraft is safe to fly even if
one of them has packed up. There is a list of such items related to every aircraft called 'minimum
equipment list' --- MEL. It specifies how the capabilities of the aircraft are affected by the one item
going unserviceable and explains safety implications. It also specifies that with this particular
component being unserviceable, 'the aircraft is safe to fly with such limitations'. Such items are called
items on 'MEL' and they could also be rotables. The regulator further decides on a concession time
after such an unserviceablity and specifies that from the time this problem is noted, the aircraft is
'allowed to fly' for something like --- two days, ten days or thirty days --- without replacement of the
item. If the particular MEL has a specification value of ten days, on eleventh day or before, if the item
is not replaced, the aircraft is 'grounded' till the item is replaced.
CONSUMABLES AND EXPENDABLES:
Materials identified as raw material, composites and chemicals are indicated as Consumables &
Expendables and are handled within the Airbus Standard Parts Team.
These materials cover e. g. metal extrusions and profiles, plastic extrusions, wires, cables and
protection, seals and strips, insulation material, tapes, paints, adhesives and lubricants,
switches and hoses.
These materials are not stocked by Airbus but Airbus is relying on a worldwide partner network
to supply and source the material on demand.
Helicopter : MOD 073773 TWIST GrIP : twist grip throttle are used to control helicopter
engine rpm
FADEC: FADEC
A full authority digital engine control is a system consisting of a digital computer, called
an "electronic engine controller" or "engine control unit", and its related accessories that
control all aspects of aircraft engine performance