Knowledge base
Knowledge base: e-techlog, Part-ML and life limits
Write-ups produced while building the system and talking to the authority. No mass-generated keyword pages — every text describes a mechanism that actually works.
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8 min read
From paper to electronic records without losing history
The opening balance, the dual-run and the list of things to agree with your authority. What actually has to be transcribed, what must never be imported, and how long it takes.
- Going digital
- Technical log
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6 min read
The ARC and the airworthiness review: an operator's calendar
How an airworthiness review differs from maintenance, what the records review covers, how the operator's year is laid out and what most often derails an ARC date.
- Aircraft documents
- Regulation
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7 min read
ADs, SBs and SLs: what is mandatory and what is advisory
Airworthiness directives always bind you; manufacturer bulletins only once something makes them binding. Where the line runs, where to source documents across the EU, and how not to confuse an SIB with an AD.
- ADs and bulletins
- Life limits
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7 min read
The techlog entry: what it has to contain
The anatomy of one techlog entry: block times, counter readings, landings, the pre-flight check, NIL-or-defect and the signature — plus the errors that only show up in the data.
- Technical log
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6 min read
Tolerances without drift: how to compute inspection due points
Why inspections creep forward, how anchoring to the planned due point fixes it, and what to do with a task that has an hour limit and a calendar limit at once.
- Life limits
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6 min read
The electronic techlog and Part-ML: what a record system must do
What ML.A.305 and AMC1 ML.A.305 expect from a computerised technical logbook, and what you actually have to show an inspector to leave paper behind.
- Regulation
- Technical log