CAVU Café: Royboy’s Prose & Cons
Me at home: ‘Honey, where’s the ketchup, did you finish it?’
Wife: ‘It’s in the fridge’
Me: ‘I looked, it’s not there’
The sound of pounding footsteps on a mission are heard marching to the fridge, whereupon an impressive and commanding opening swing of the door is given, the wife’s hand swivels like a whip, tip towards the now mysteriously reappeared bottle of ketchup and voila, there it is. I bow and kiss her backhand then meekishly apply the condiment.
Occasionally solutions to our problems a...
Posted By Jeanne Meade | 4/2/2024 11:40:42 AM
Scenario: You are a distributor, and you have an MMR (Multi Mode Receiver) in your Quarantine Cage because the MRO- Maintenance Repair & Overhaul shop returned the part to you as BER- Beyond Economical Repair due to an unrepairable power supply. There is a customer who is looking for a cover whose part number is the cover for the MMR in the Q Cage. You simply remove the 10 screws to disassemble the cover from the MMR assembly, and voila, you have an AR- As Removed condition part and you’re a her...
Posted By Mat Meyer | 1/31/2024 1:07:45 PM
It has been 22 years since the ATA Spec 106 was updated, and it is now at revision 2023.1. The proper and full name of this document is ATA Specification 106, Sources & Approved Parts Qualification Guidelines (herein ‘the spec’). In this article the following will be presented:
Common misconceptions
Interesting facts about the spec
What has changed with the Form?
Use of the form to comply with the ASA-100
Continuing issues with the form and specification
The ASA Statement Form
COMMON MISCONCEPT...
Posted By Mat Meyer | 12/1/2023 12:50:43 PM
Last year the ASA recorded 41 Repeat Findings during audits. What behaviors (or lack thereof) contribute to the likelihood of new or repeat findings?
I was recently in a hotel listening to the local news broadcast. An area leader was celebrating the now wide-spread availability of Narcan in the community, Narcan being the medication used to help save those who are experiencing an opioid overdose. Narcan has been very successful in bringing down the rate of deaths due to opioid overdoses. In the ...
Posted By Jeanne Meade | 10/1/2023 2:26:39 PM
Your customer has an urgent need for hard to find new Hi-Lok fasteners. You finally locate some New Surplus parts, but your source shares that the trace is to government military stock. Your customer’s Jurassic policy is that they will not accept any parts with trace to a government/military source period, so their aircraft languishes for lack of parts, and they will pay a lot more waiting for the commercial sources to get stock. Is this policy in the best interest of their fleet and budget?
We’...
Posted By Mat Meyer | 8/1/2023 12:49:55 PM