ASCI 202

Introduction to Aeronautical Science

There are some special issues related to the aircraft maintenance community. Choose one aircraft maintenance issue and respond the questions below concerning the issue. Please put the maintenance issue and number at the top of your discussion for easy identification by your peers(i.e., #10. Avionics). Your posts should be at least one or more paragraphs in length, grammatically correct, and free of spelling errors.

• What are the maintenance details of this issue?
• How should a manager address this issue？

List: (Choice one)

1) 3rd Party Relationships
2) Aftermarket Support Organizations
3) Aged Aircraft
4) Airline Outsourcing
5) Alaska Airlines Flight 261
6) Aloha Airlines Flight 243
7) Alternative Fuels and Energy
8) American Airlines Flight 191
9) ATA MSG-3
10)Avionics
11)British Airways Flight 5390
12)Built-In Test Capability 13)Complacency
14)Continental Express Flight 2574 15)Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance

Programs
16)Designated Airworthiness Representative

(DAR)
17)FAA Maintenance Inspection Team 18)Fatigue and Wear
19)Foreign Object Damage
20)Green Aviation
21)Historical Data Trend Analysis 22)Leadership/Discipline/Control 23)Lean & Six Sigma
24)Lean Maintenance
25)Legacy Maintenance Systems 26)Lifecycle Cost Management 27)Logistics and Distribution

28)Maintenance Operating Costs 29)Man-Hour Standards 30)Manuals and Documentation 31)Military MRO Market 32)Non-Warranty Aircraft Fleet 33)Operational Metrics 34)Outsourced vs. Insourced 35)Oversight

36)Overtime Levels
37)Performance Oriented Contracts
38)PMA Parts
39)Quality Assurance
40)Real-Time Condition Monitoring
41)Repair Assessment Program (RAP) 42)Service Difficulty Program
43)Shift Structure
44)Substandard and Bogus Spare Parts 45)Supply Chain & Logistics
46)Swissair Flight 111
47)Terrorism Vulnerability
48)Tool Control
49)Turnaround Time for Checks
50)TWA Flight 800
51)Unions
52)United Airlines Flight 232
53)United Airlines Flight 811
54)USAir Flight 427
55)ValuJet Flight 592
56)VLJs
57)Workforce Development Overtime and Shift

Premium

58)Workplace Culture etc…