Aircraft Management, Leasing & Planning is where CAMO and Leasing Conditions meet, one regulated and focussed on airworthiness and the other focussed on asset protection and value return.
The Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization (CAMO) ensure continued aircraft airworthiness, and this is achieved using both between short-term maintenance needs and long-term airworthiness planning.
Short-Term Planning: Tracking and addressing immediate maintenance requirements in the shorter term (days, weeks or a month for example), this includes unscheduled maintenance, overseeing deferred maintenance items within their permissible limits, and scheduling reduced interval inspections.
Long-Term Planning: Beyond the immediate, the aircraft’s long-term maintenance strategy involves a comprehensive maintenance program that comply with regulatory requirements and manufacturer recommendations. This is important to understand as regulatory compliance does not mean lease compliance – these can be two very different standards.
Reliability data and operational experience to fine-tune maintenance programs and task intervals so you can end up with operator specific intervals where the lease might require manufacturer intervals to be reset.
The LDND (Last Done, Next Due) tracks the maintenance for all tasks and components, ensuring that inspections and overhauls are performed at the appropriate intervals. This is a visual representation for the remaining life of parts that are limited, and also for all tasks that are required it details the last date of completion and their next due date – the lease agreement will stipulate typical remaining intervals.
The AMP (Aircraft Maintenance Program) outlines the mandatory maintenance tasks and intervals for an aircraft type and it is here you can see operator tasks, intervals that are altered and much other information so it is important to check. It can also deal with deferrals such as reduced interval inspections or repairs.
The maintenance the that is within the AMP can be carried out in different ways – phased and equalised maintenance. Phased Maintenance breaks down heavy maintenance checks into smaller, more manageable tasks performed at regular intervals. This minimizes aircraft downtime and allows for better integration of maintenance activities with operational schedules, but means your LDND intervals need to be compliant for lease return.
Equalized Maintenance aims to distribute maintenance workload evenly throughout the year, avoiding peaks and troughs in maintenance demand. This approach optimizes hangar space, manpower allocation, and spare parts inventory, leading to greater efficiency and cost savings.
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