specialized equipment, in accordance with appropriate federal aviation regulations, manufacturer's recommendations, technical manuals, and/or Government/industry standards. Maintains standard inventory of spare parts necessary to conduct uninterrupted maintenance, modifications, and repairs. Maintains a comprehensive record system of all maintenance work performed on each aircraft to comply with the component mandates of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DoD, and/or the manufacturer. Qualifications
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AVIATION SAFETY PROGRAM Name Professor’s name Course Date Abstract The paper seeks to look into some of the critical issues concerning safety measures in the commercial aviation industry. It focuses more on the concept of stress in Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) and how high stress levels can affect the performance of ATCs. Further emphasis is laid on the various measures that can be put into place to address some of the safety issues in commercial aviation
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Champaign Introduction Even though proper maintenance is crucial for aviation safety, tracing the effect that human error in maintenance operations has on accidents and incidents remains a difficult task. According to a UK Civil Aviation Authority study (2003), maintenance and inspection deficiencies ranked fourth (12%) as a factor in aviation accidents overall. Other studies have described that as technology has improved, aviation accidents attributed to mechanical failures alone have decreased
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the governmental agency that is responsible for aviation in the United States. In your opinion, what are the key events in the history of the FAA that have impacted us today? In the Early days of flying pilots didn’t have all the great flight instruments we have today. This fact made flying very dangerous and fatal accidents were happening all the time. Aviation industry leaders saw the potential of strong aviation industry and went forth to make it
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Title: Air Controller Discipline Probed by U.S. in Near Plane Crash Abstract: This article takes a look into the disciplinary problems at U.S. air traffic facilities. Summary: The author discusses the struggle of the Federal Aviation Administration’s efforts to reprimand air traffic controllers. About forty percent of the controllers who have come under scrutiny for their poor judgment and lackadaisical performance of their job which have resulted in tragedy and/or near mishaps were allowed early
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tried, but it wasn't until the days of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk that Man was able to take flight. For the past hundred years, airplanes have been made safer and easier to use, although the events of 9/11 have recently made the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) a tad more suspicious. We are at a point now where human flight is open to just about everyone, even the likes of flyboys Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Accordingly, it's become painless for someone to get their private pilot's
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Vanessa Weatherington “Amazon asks permission for drone flights” Julian Hattem As Amazon’s customer base grows the company is seeking to launch a faster way to deliver packages, drone flights. Amazon recently asked permission from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to test drones in their regulated airspace to determine the next course of action for their new delivery method “Amazon Prime Air”. Hattem believes this is a sign that the company has every intention to move forward with the
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plane into a dive. However, Whitaker has miraculously controlled the plane and hit on ground in a way that no other pilots could do. After the plane accident, the NTSB—an independent Federal agency charged by Congress with investigating every civil aviation accidents in the United States—started investigating of the probable causes of the plane crash, so they can find who is guilty of the accident. Investigations The independent Federal agency NTSB had assigned Ellen Block who’s specialized in criminal
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this very day, the majority of aviation related accidents are to human errors in various ways. As years past, aircrafts has turned out to be more reliable whereas humans on the other hand, has progressively in one or another played an important role in aviation accidents. It is rather surprising when consider all the effort and the expenses that had been put into management , several forms of research , and even training and development. It is indeed true that aviation safety has rather greatly improved
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Aviation Legislation Term Paper The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 ASCI 254 12/09/14 It has always been the dream of mankind wanting to join the birds in the sky, many innovators created various contraptions to achieve flight. On December 17, 1903, two brothers by the name of Wilbur and Orville Wright decided to test their contraption and it was successful. This event changed the course of aviation as the contraption known as Flyer 1 became the first successful powered heavier-than-air flight
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