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29 5.1 Introduction Previous chapters provided the reader information about airports, their infrastructure systems, and PM in general. Chapter 5 provides a road map for the development and implementation of a preventive maintenance program for an airport.
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30 Preventive Maintenance at General Aviation Airports 5. Airport management should include maintenance personnel in the early stages of decision making when purchasing major equipment or designing new infrastructure.
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An Airport Preventive Maintenance Program 31 be a regular activity. For example, building roofs should be inspected not only at the beginning of a new PM program, but twice a year, looking for blistering, plugged drains, and damage from adverse weather.
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32 Preventive Maintenance at General Aviation Airports 5.5 Life-Cycle Considerations Airport infrastructure and the individual components have life expectations that depend on how well they are maintained. A motor on an automated gate will fail if not maintained in a certain manner.
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An Airport Preventive Maintenance Program 33 airports that were financially self-sufficient tended to dedicate more funding to PM than did other airports. During the course of the airport interviews, a commonly heard statement was "We just don't have enough money to perform the maintenance that needs to be done." This statement is a corollary to the phrase "There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over." Ignoring or delaying PM indefinitely will never save the airport money in the long run.
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34 Preventive Maintenance at General Aviation Airports assistance. In some cases, the state aviation division may provide resources for airports to use in the performance of their PM.
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An Airport Preventive Maintenance Program 35 5.10 Tools and Equipment A good PM program includes provision of the appropriate tools and equipment needed to effectively perform the maintenance. While the specific type of required tools and equipment will vary from airport to airport depending on the complexity and amount of infrastructure and the climate, general requirements include: • Hand tools, • Mowers, • Weed trimmers, • Snow removal equipment, • Maintenance vehicles, • Maintenance equipment storage, and • Personal safety equipment for maintenance personnel.
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