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Purpose of Aviation Maintenance

-To ensure readiness

Commanders Role

Ensure Readiness

How do we affect maintenance?

-Command Emphasis

-Measures of Effectiveness (MOE)

-management Skills

-Supervision

-motivation

-Technical Skills

Levels of Maintenance

Field and Sustainment

Field Maintenance

-Unit

-Intermediate

Letter of Authorization (LOA)

Case-by-case basis asking for specialized repair

Sustainment Maintenance

Depot (overhauls and rebuilds)

Aviation Maintenance Planning

-Scheduled Maintenance

-Unscheduled Maintenance

-Defferred/Delayed Maintenance

P4T3 Maintenance

Problem

People

Parts

Plan

Training

Tools

Time

Maneuver Company Maintenance Operations

•Crew Chiefs/Pilots

•Preflight Inspection

•Thru Flight Inspection

•Post Flight Inspection

•Daily Inspections

•Scheduled/Unscheluled Maintenance within their capabilities

PMD

preventive maintenance daily

-required before the first scheduled flight of the day or after the last scheduled flight of the day

Aviation maintenance company primary mission

•Create combat power in support of the battalion/squadron mission

•Conducts phase maintenance

•Troubleshoots airframe and component malfunctions

•Performs maintenance and repair actions

•Removes and replaces aircraft components

•Performs maintenance test flights (MTFs) and Maintenance Operational Checks (MOCs)

quality control

is accountable directly to the commander, thereby eliminating potential conflicts of interest among the PC section, the maintenance shops, and the supported units

quality control missions

•Aircraft and component inspections

•Shop inspections

•Weight and balance

•Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment (TMDE)

•Forms and records

•Maintaining reference library

•Aircraft historical records

•Time Before Overhaul (TBO) and Retirement Life Components (RC)

Production Control Section

manages maintenance production within the AMC/AMT to maximize maintenance resources.

Production Control Jobs

-Receives and processes work requests.

-Coordinates external support within the ASC.

-Coordinates, schedules, and prioritizes maintenance and shop workloads.

-Maintains the status of aircraft parts and shop reports.

-Materiel readiness.

-Coordinates inspections, MOCs, and MTFs.

-Returns repaired aircraft and equipment to supported units.

-Directs supply operations.

-Controlled Exchange

technical supply section

-responsible for requisitioning, stocking, and issuing Class IX repair parts

-obtains, stores, and issues Class IX repair parts, special tools, bench stock, and stock shop

Battle Damage Assessment and Repair (BDAR)

-rapid restorations

-temporary repairs

-only in battle

Downed Aircraft Recovery Team (DART)

Team is equipped, trained and rehearsed to accomplish aircraft recovery in various environments and conditions

Field Maintenance Team (FMT)

-enhance maintenance flexibility

COntrolled Exchange

Removal of serviceable parts from unserviceable, economically repairable equipment to restore a like item to a serviceable condition.

Condition Based Maintenance (CBM)

It is a maintenance strategy that uses the actual condition of the asset to decide what maintenance needs to be done. It dictates that maintenance should only be performed when certain indicators show decreasing performance or upcoming failure.

Army Oil Analysis Program (AOAP)

quick, efficient/effective way to monitor both the health of the equipment and lubricant

Tool Room Operations

-Consolidates tools into centralized effort

Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic Equipment (TMDE)

Torque wrenches, testers, test sets, and other test equipment

Ground Support Equipment (GSE)

-equipment and special tools required to maintain aircraft and associated systems

Petroleum, oil, and lubricants (POL)

Methods of Evaluation

-hands on

-academic

FM 3-04 (Army Aviation):

Capstone doctrinal publication for conducting aviation operations

ATP 3-04.7

Army Aviation Maintenance

-Provides techniques concerning aviation maintenance operations from aviation brigade to platoon level

TC 3-04.71

Commander's Aviation Maintenance Training Programs

-Shapes the way the army trains and develops aviation maintainers and leaders

DA PAM 738-751

Functional User's Manual for the Army Aviation Maintenance System

-provide instruction, direction and guidance for use, preparation, and disposition of electronic aviation data

-Commanders may execute disciplinary action when data/forms or records are purposely and/or intentionally lost, falsified, damaged or destroyed

AR 700-138

ARMY LOGISTICS READINESS AND SUSTAINABILITY

-•prescribes policy and provides procedures for collecting and reporting the physical condition of Army materiel that will aid in the development or modification of logistic policies, procedures, and strategies for equipment readiness (ER) sustainability.

AR 95-1

Flight Regulations

DA form 2408

Equipment log

DA Form 2408-12

Army Aviator's Flight Record (Pilot)

DA form 2408-13-1

Aircraft Inspection and Maintenance Record

Da Form 2408-13

Aircraft Status Information Record

(Aircraft)

DA 2408-16

Aircraft component service record

-major end items

-engine

-rotor head

-gear box

DA 2408-17

Aircraft Inventory

-components of the aircraft

DA Form 2408-18

Equipment Inspection List

-when PMD is due

-when PMS is due

-when 120 hour inspection is due

Indicates a fault, deficiency or conditions exists making it unsafe for operations

indicates a deficiency, yet can be flown under certain conditions

Shows an inspection, calibration, check or test flight is required

indicates unsatisfactory condition exists but is not dangerous enough to ground aircraft

Aircraft Notebook (ACN)

DA 2410

-component removal/repair/install/gain/loss record

-provides a method of recording and reporting maintenance data on selected aircraft, components and modules.