EDITOR’S NOT E BOOK
AVM Summit USA - Get Excited!
BY JOY FINNEGAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
hasn’t held their previously annual symposium in a number of years and it has been sorely missed. There will be an exhibition hall with companies and products on display, a conference track with numerous learning opportunities and we are planning to resurrect the Chili Cook-off as well. The event is to be held on November 21-22 in Orlando, Fla. – the perfect location if you’d like to bring your family! Plan now to attend. If you would like to speak we are open to suggestions now and
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currently nailing down topics and speakers. Go online to submit nominations for speakers:
http://www.avm-summit.com/submit- a-speaker. If there are timely topics that we should include in the program, please submit those as well. What are the concerns of the industry? Where does the maintenance business need improvement? Who would you like to see speaking or sharing their knowledge? Please let us know who you would most like to see there and we will reach out to see if it is possible. We are looking to March 31 to nail down our speakers and agenda so please let us know ASAP. You will be hearing about this event in each issue going forward in a new separate section of the magazine, this month starting on page 14, so stay tuned for more info as we move ahead with our plans. Our cover story this issue is about the fleet maintenance of helicopters. Helicopters are some of the most complex machinery conceived and made by man. My deep respect goes out to anyone who is tasked daily with keeping these flying engineering marvels in the air. At Bristow Academy, their fleet of more than 70 helicopters flies multiple short hops everyday with novice students (and their experienced instructors) at the controls. You know those helicopters are going to need special care. Read Dale Smith’s story on the stellar job Bristow Academy’s maintenance team does to keep them flying. That story starts on page 18. This issue we also take a look at some of the latest developments in tool control. From shadow boxes to RFID, tool control is getting more interesting as the stakes get higher. Whether you are a large shop or a small one, there are solutions to help prevent the possible catastrophe of leaving a tool in a cowling or electrical panel. Snap-on, PinPoint and CribMaster all gave insights to this article by veteran AM Writer, Charlotte Adams.
e are growing. Aviation Maintenance Magazine has partnered with the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association to hold a conference in the U. S. PAMA
We also take a look at ultrasonic inspections this issue. Beams of high-frequency sound waves, in some cases 100 times what the human ear is able to use, are employed to detect even the smallest of flaws. Small flaws can cause a safety-critical component to fail and using ultrasonic devices to inspect them can be the difference between knowing and not knowing what the true status of the parts is. There is also a lack of trained technicians who can interpret these results. Read more in the Mark Robins article on page 32. Earlier I mentioned PAMA; current PAMA President Dale Forton, has been a regular columnist with us for more than a year now. This month Dale shares his thoughts on the NTSB’s findings in the Dec. 7, 2011 crash of a Eurocopter AS350-B2. Maintenance and fatigue both played a role in that accident. Read more about PAMA’s actions regarding fatigue in his column in this issue on page 38. Our other regular columnist, Jason Dickstein, of both the
Washington Aviation Group and MARPA (The Manufacturers and Replacement Parts Association), writes this month about the importance of hazardous materials training. By U. S. law, anyone making decisions about the transport of hazardous goods must receive training. The Washington Aviation Group offers courses throughout the year. Check out Jason’s column to see if your company needs to sign up for one of them. This is a better safe than sorry scenario – get the training to be certain you are covered. And last but not least this issue contains our annual Repair Center
Directory. Every year we publish a listing of commercial and business aviation MROs, OEM service centers, engine shops and related support businesses and makers of products for the MRO world. We keep this list online and it can searched there at http://directorypub. com/am. If by chance your company is not listed and you would like it to be, you can do so online at
https://directorypub.com/enhance. You can also update or edit your listing at any time during the year at that address as well. Changes made throughout the year are updated immediately on the online version of the listing. In this way we can keep those searching for your company updated with your latest capabilities. So please add, edit, change, update or otherwise enhance your listing at anytime to keep the most current info available to all. I hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we did putting it together. And please plan to join us in November for the AVM Summit USA. AM
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