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Aircraft Engineering Planning

This document outlines the objectives and content of a training program on engineering and planning procedures. The target group is specialists in engineering and planning, with or without experience. The content covers topics like aircraft technical logs, maintenance programs, airworthiness directives, reliability programs, and production planning. An effective maintenance planner requires aviation background knowledge, strong process-driven procedures, administrative skills, and computer/IT literacy.

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Aircraft Engineering Planning

This document outlines the objectives and content of a training program on engineering and planning procedures. The target group is specialists in engineering and planning, with or without experience. The content covers topics like aircraft technical logs, maintenance programs, airworthiness directives, reliability programs, and production planning. An effective maintenance planner requires aviation background knowledge, strong process-driven procedures, administrative skills, and computer/IT literacy.

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Engineering & Planning Procedures:

Objectives: To provide students with theoretical knowledge of Engineering and Planning


Process, documentation.

Target Group: The specialists of engineering and planning with experience or not.

Content:

 Aircraft technical log utilization and mel application;


 Aircraft maintenance program – development and amendment;
 Time and continuing airworthiness records, responsibilities, access;
 Accomplishment and control of airworthiness directives;
 Analysis of the effectiveness of the maintenance program;
 Non-mandatory modification embodiment policy;
 Engineering activity;
 Reliability program;
 Aircraft weighting;
 Operator procedures and paperwork;
 Maintenance instructions and relationship to aircraft;
 Airworthiness directives;
 Technical records control;
 Control of man-hour planning versus scheduled maintenance plan; production
planning;
 Production planning.
Typically a good maintenance Planning Engineer has a strong aviation background, such
background knowledge aids and supports the Maintenance Planning role and enables a strong
understanding of how to comply with the various tasks.

The primary output from Maintenance Planning is a Check Pack, work Pack or Engineering
Order, the inputs into Maintenance Planning are many and varied and need to me measured
and managed.

Typically the main functions of Maintenance Planning include configuration management to


ensure that the integrity of the modification status of the aircraft is managed correctly.

Each aircraft fleet has a Maintenance Program which is developed by the operator from the
MPD (Maintenance Planning Document). The maintenance program is the source document
for generating the work package.

As well as the basic work package it is normal to manage an ongoing modification program
which improves the reliability or economic viability of the aircraft. Planning often carry out
audits to ensure that compliance is maintained with the requirements of AD’s and other tasks
related to airworthiness compliance.

Because of the critical nature of the planning role it is typical to see very strong process
driven by detailed procedures. It is important that these procedures are well understood and
reflect not just best practice, but that they are also efficient.

The maintenance Planning department organizes and looks after both short term goals for
example line maintenance and long term goals for example C checks. It is important that the
aircraft utilization is managed in an effective way so that the maximum efficiency of the
available maintenance resource is employed.

Maintenance planning typically issues to production planning the work package containing
details of the required parts and materials to support the maintenance activity.

Maintenance Planning also monitor the defect status of the aircraft to ensure that the aircraft
remains in compliance with the requirements of the minimum equipment list.

In the event that maintenance overruns, or an aircraft suffers an unplanned AOG Maintenance
planning plays a pivotal role in ensuring the implementation of a recovery plan.

To be an effective Maintenance Planner requires good administrative skills an ability to


analyse multiple data inputs and to take appropriate decisions.

A detailed understanding of ATA 100 and the system of displaying information in Aircraft
Maintenance Manual AMM, Illustrated Parts Catalogue IPC wiring Diagram Manual WDM,
Structure Repair Manual SRM, and Chapter 20 Standard Practices and Standard Wiring
Practices.

An effective maintenance planer requires a high level of computer literacy together with good
IT skills knowledge of XL and Access being particularly an advantage.

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