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What Is Aircraft Maintenance and Its Importance?
Aircraft are powerful vehicles, forever changing how we traverse and interact with the world through the ability to fly anywhere in a matter of hours. Just like a typical automobile, aircraft and their various components are subjected to a wide number of stressors over time, leading to wear and tear that slowly detracts from the quality and integrity of assemblies. To prevent costly downtime, breakdowns, and hazards, it is crucial that aircraft maintenance is carried out on a regular basis. In this blog, we will discuss the maintenance process and its importance, allowing you to better understand how operators maintain the airworthiness and reliability of aircraft components.
There are many reasons as to why maintenance is important, and many center around maintaining low costs, efficient operations, and the safety of passengers, workers, and others. For airlines, any unnecessary downtime for an aircraft is bad, so such companies do all within their power to ensure that aircraft are always running smoothly and reliably with every function working properly. As such, proper maintenance is the key method to avoiding any sudden asset failures or unplanned downtime.
When discussing aircraft maintenance, whether it be a repair for landing gear or yearly aircraft engine maintenance, it is important to understand the difference between proactive and reactive types. Proactive maintenance is carried out when various issues are identified and attended to before they have the chance of becoming a major issue. With such maintenance strategies, operators will conduct preventive and predictive maintenance based on various data and scheduling to prevent the chance of facing unplanned maintenance. Unlike the proactive approach, reactive maintenance refers to when a maintenance operation is executed as a response to issues that have created an emergency. This may be because of a part failure, system error, or other issue that deters from the ability for an aircraft to safely and reliably be operated.
To ensure quality maintenance services, one should always take the time to research facilities and find a reputable partner to rely on. Maintenance personnel must be licensed to conduct aircraft repair services, and it can be useful to consider certifications and affiliations of a facility when finding a partner. Those who have affiliation with the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) are very reputable as the association focuses on aircraft maintenance technicians who promote ethical repair practices. Regardless of qualifications, it can also help to simply meet a team in person, allowing you to see the facility and decide if it is the right fit for your needs.
As the aviation industry continues to expand across the globe with new technology permeating the market every year, maintenance services have been evolving to keep up. Many companies are spearheading new services and technologies to improve maintenance endeavors, an example being Airbus’s push for data diagnostics that can combat unscheduled grounding for fault repairs. Automated inspection systems may also increase the safety and reliability of aircraft maintenance, and various companies have been working on mobile robots and UAVs that may enhance such operations.
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