Diary of an Approval Application – Chapter 1
As was mentioned in our news release Mackenzie Morgan are applying for an EASA Part M Sub-Part G approval in our own right; I have written enough expositions for other people, I felt it was time to do it for ourselves. I shall be writing a diary of our progress, this is Chapter 1.
What has happened in since the beginning of December?
• We have completed the Application Form to the CAA and written the cheque!
• We have requested proposals from various suppliers for the provision of:
o Airworthiness data management systems – we have chosen two potential suppliers;
o Developing a portal for customers and staff to access the required data systems, and technical publications.
• Developing the concept of operating a “virtual office of airworthiness”;
• Agreed on the initial aircraft listing for the application, 18 aircraft types;
• Working on completing the required mountain of documentation;
• Working on a marketing/sales plan – there are some great online tools available now.
The virtual office of airworthiness will ensure that the owner or operator will have access to all the required documentation, forecasts, AD/SB/Modification compliance statements etc, accomplishment recommendations and approved maintenance programmes available at the touch of a button, or a web logon at least! Engineers will be able to assess all documents and make individual recommendations, notification to the owner or operators will be automated through the systems; engineers will be free to manage their time to deliver the outputs.
All daily sector record pages will be faxed to a server and processed on-line, all original hard copy paperwork will be stored in dedicated document repositories. As an organisation expounding the benefits of out-sourcing to experts, I need to practice what I preach.
The next step is the waiting for the CAA to assign us a regional office and an approval number, as soon as we receive that I intend to submit the first draft of the required documents to the surveyor.
As always happy for comments, if you have an aircraft and you are interested in our services, please get in-touch directly.
“Virtual Office of Airworthiness” such a great idea and a service that is not provided by the majority of the CAMO. They provide customers with soft copy reports and forecasts. Direct access to data through a web enabled application allows 24/7 availability across multiple time zones, something aircraft tend to cross.
Malcom, you’ve got an excellent idea. Technology must help our job, otherwise is useless and expensive.
I wanted to do something similar for my own business but have no time and resources to proceed further on. Hope you’re succesfull and I’m ansious to follow your progress.
Oussama
Thanks for your positive comments, it is going to be a long few months getting this up and running, keep watching!
I hope that you will keep supporting us!
Malcolm
Hi Emanuele
Thanks for the encouragement, please keep watching the diary and I hope you will keep reading the blog!
Malcolm