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According to the Federal Aviation Administration website, American Airlines flight 965 from Miami International Airport to Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport in Cali, Colombia started off as a routine flight for the 163 passengers and 8 crew aboard the Boeing 757 aircraft. The pilots originally had the flight management system (FMS) programmed in from Miami all the way to a landing on runway 1 at Cali. Cali, along with having lots of mountainous terrain around it also did not have…

Reliability Centered Maintenance started when a preventative maintenance plan were developed for the Boeing 747 airplane in the 1960’s by the maintenance steering group. In the RCM process in maintenance not only ‘what can be done’ is considered but also ‘why should it be done’. To facilitate the RCM process seven questions should be asked to complete the process. • What are the functions and performance standards of the asset in the operating environment? • How does the asset fail to perform…

4. Technical Accidents Over the years there have been several incidences that changed the face of aviation industry. I will talk about three incidents that gave rise to significant revisions in the aeronautical technology. 4.1. United Airlines Flight 811  Incident- United Airlines Flight 811 experienced a cargo door failure while flying from Hawaii to Auckland on February 24, 1989. After flying for about sixteen minutes and reaching an altitude of 22,000-23,000 feet, the forward cargo door…

Centralized Control / Decentralized Execution Centralized Control 1. Centralized control is authoritative airpower and should be consummate by an Airman at a commander level by keeping a concentration on the joint force commander’s (JFC’s) objectives to direct, incorporate, prioritize, plan, organize, and evaluate the utiliztion of air, space, and cyberspace assets in any eventuality across the range of operations. Centralized control authorizes the air component commander to respond to…

As a Journeyman my main focus was to build my skills into becoming a competent craftsman. I was skilled in removing, installing, preforming operational checks, and repairs on avionics systems and line replaceable units with minimal to no supervision. I could diagnose malfunctions using technical orders, schematics, wiring diagrams, integrated test systems and other test equipment. With my advance knowledge and capabilities I was able to maintain 24 hour alert readiness status on 10 assigned…

An Aerospatiale AS 355 Helicopter went down Oct 17 in Erwinna, PA killing pilot. The helicopter went down after the Doug Brigham, the pilot, lost control of the flight. According to a final accident report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Brigham intended to depart on a scheduled repositioning flight from a Helipad behind Brigham’s home to an airport located 25 nautical miles southwest. A handheld GPS device recovered from inside the helicopter shows that Brigham flew only…

Cassie McCollum--Experiential Learning Essay This Fall, I volunteered to work at the Cobb EMC Annual Planning Meeting with Safe Kids of Cobb County. I heard about this opportunity when a couple of professors in the Public Health Department at Kennesaw State University promoted it via email. It was on a Saturday and I was off from work, so I decided to volunteer. I did not know what to expect, but I drove to the Cobb County Fairground early that morning ready for anything. It was still…

Running head-HISTORY OF LIGHT AIRFIELD REPAIR PACKAGE 1 History of Light Airfield Repair Package and how it is used in the Military Arnold O. Gerodias Engineer Senior Leaders Course 22 February 2016  Abstract The United States Army has assets that contribute greatly to the mission of Airfield Seizure. A method used for Airfield Seizure is Forcible-Entry. One of Forcible-Entry task is Rapid Runway Repair by using Light Airfield…

Aeronautics protection is protection scope equipped particularly to the operation of airplane and the dangers included in avionics. Aeronautics protection strategies are unmistakably unique in relation to those for different ranges of transportation and have a tendency to consolidate flying wording, and also phrasing, breaking points and provisions particular to avionics protection. Flight Insurance was initially presented in the early years of the twentieth century. The first-ever flying…

7. LEADERSHIP STYLES USED IN COCKPIT Leadership in aviation is not only important in organizational level but it is also very important in narrower sphere – cockpit. It is because in the cockpit are made main decisions upon which the flight safety depends, so and people on board lives. There captain is a leader, co-pilot is one’s follower. Like in all cases a lot of different leadership styles and combinations of them can be used in the cockpit but there I will analyze three leadership styles…