Improving Aircraft Safety (1980) / Chapter Skim
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Airframe and Powerplant License (A&P) : A license granted to an individual who is at least 18 years of age and has demonstrated a command of the English language and competence through examination in specific maintenance tasks specified in Federal Aviation Regulations, Part 34.
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: A certificate, granted by the FAA, stating that an aircraft meets all specifications required by the Type Certificate, and has been flown and found to be in compliance with applicable airworthiness standards. When an airplane is transferred to a second or subsequent person, the AWC is transferred along with it to the new owner who is required to maintain the aircraft in a state of continuing airworthiness.
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Continuing Airworthiness: The assurance that an air craft with an airworthiness certificate is operated, maintained, and repaired in accordance with FAA-approved procedures. Continuous Gust Criteria: An engineering basis for designing aircraft structure and flight control systems to sustain safely a broad spectrum of flight loads imposed by atmospheric gusts of various frequencies and intensities.
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Extremely Remote, Extremely Improbable: Terms applied to a measure of system reliability, equivalent to a 10-9 or one chance in a billion of failure. Fail-safe: A design philosophy that assumes components of a system have a limited lifetime, and that provides safety assurance through alternative components which can function in the event of failure of the primary component.
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(See Continuing Airworthiness.) Inspect: As used in the text, the process by which company employees examine parts, equipment, processes, and procedures for conformity to applicable standards, certifying that the standards are met; or FAA inspectors assure that company maintenance and production systems are properly in place to assure compliance with applicable standards.
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: A report required of an airline for submission to the FAA of the occurrence or detection of each failure, malfunction, or defect concerning 16 specific items -- including fires and ~irewarning systems malfunctions; engine exhaust systemcaused damage; aircraft component causing accumulation or circulation of smoke, vapor, or noxious fumes in the occupied part of the aircraft; engine shutdown; failure of propeller control; malfunctioning fuel dump system; inadvertent landing gear system operations; brake system component malfunction; aircraft structural damage requir ing major repair; cracks, permanent deformation or corrosion of aircraft structures, malfunction of aircraft components or systems that results in taking emergency action. National Aviation System (NAS)
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: An FAA employee who provides continuing surveillance of an air carrier's maintenance program and who works at the regional or district office level. Production Certificate: An approval of a manufacturer's facility granted by the FAA Production Certification Board, and an authorization for that manufacturer to proceed with the manufacture of aircraft which are faithful copies of the type certification specification.
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Service Bulletin: A bulletin issued by a manufacturer containing nonmandatory information and recommendations regarding product improvement and equipment reliability. (See Alert Service Bulletin.)
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Type Certification Board (TCB) : A board of FAA technical experts at the regional level that examines the manufacturer's proposal, negotiates the design basis, supervises the design evolution, and grants a Type Certificate upon satisfaction that the proposed design meets the FAAapproved specification.
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