Question

The FAA defines a maintenance program as "the performance of tasks required to ensure the continuing airworthiness of an aircraft, including any one or combination of overhaul, inspection, replacement, defect rectification, and the embodiment of an alteration or repair." Find one program via the web for tracking maintenance actions and briefly discuss it.

Answer 1

One of the leading program by FAA is ASAP (Aviation Safety Action Program) that is used on a regular basis to report errors in aviation system without any retribution from other departments of supervisors. This is not a single program but an umbrella of programs that is covered under it. The main focus of these programs under ASAP is to create a safe air transport system. The ASAP covers areas such as VASIP (Voluntary Aviation Safety Information-sharing Process), MEDA (Maintenance Error and Decision Aid), etc. These smaller programs fall under the overall program of safety maintenance and hence together they provide protocols to make the overall aviation industry safer.