MAINTENANCE DOCUMENTATIONS 3

• Operations Specifications (Ops Specs)

• Technical Policies and Procedures Manual (TPPM)

• Inspection Manual (IM)

• Reliability Program Manual (RPM)

• Minimum Equipment List (MEL)

• Task Cards (TC)

• Engineering Order (EO)

AIRLINE-GENERATED DOCUMENTATION

Operations Specifications

➢ Written by the operator in accordance with

strict design authority requirements.

➢ Details the airline’s operations programs,

along with maintenance and inspection.

• Type of equipment you're going to

operate

• Where you're going to operate

• Crew training required

• Duty and flight time limitations

• Flight planning and dispatch requirements

Technical Policies and Procedures Manual

➢ Primary document for airline’s Maintenance &

Engineering (M&E) operations.

➢ Defines exactly how all M&E functions and

activities should be carried out.

➢ Usually written by Engineering, to ensure technical

accuracy from inputs supplied by management of

various M&E organizations.

Inspection Manual

➢ Contains inspection activities within M&E

• Mechanic inspection tasks from MPD

• Quality Control (QC) tasks

• Special inspections (hard landings, bird

strikes)

Reliability Program Manual

➢ Defines the reliability program in detail

➢ Must be evaluated and approved the

regulatory authority.

Minimum Equipment List

➢ Customized from the MMEL for the operator’s

airframe/engine configuration.

Task Cards

➢ Customized description of a maintenance

assignment together with its relevant safety plans

from the original maintenance documentation.

➢ Help maintenance personnel to do tasks

correctly and to ensure proper procedures were

followed.

Engineering Order

➢ Issued as a work order, provides instructions how

to perform a complex maintenance task.

➢ Maintenance actions not covered in the standard

maintenance plan.

➢ Written and developed by the Engineering

department

Airworthiness Directives

➢ A notification to the operators of a type-certificate

aircraft that a known and identified safety

deficiency on a certain part/product exists and

must be corrected.

➢ Issued by the authorities, compliance is mandatory.

➢ ~~~~ include:

• Description of the condition

• The product to which the AD applies

• Corrective action required

• Date of compliance

• Information on alternative methods of

compliance if applicable

• Airworthiness Directives (AD)

REGULATORY DOCUMENTATION

ATA NUMBERING SYSTEM 2

• The Air Transport Association

(ATA) released the ATA

Specifications (ATA iSpec 2200)

to standardize the overall

format in which maintenance

information are presented in

maintenance documentations.

• Provides the industry-wide

standard for numbering aircraft

systems.

ATA NUMBERING SYSTEM

ATA NUMBERING SYSTEM (SAMPLE)

Page Blocks

• Refer to specific types of

information contained in

the airplane maintenance

manual.

• Same for all maintenance

documentations