The definition of base maintenance is simple – it is all maintenance which does not fall under the line maintenance category. In practice, this will be mainly heavy checks such as C and D checks. During those checks major and minor aircraft systems are being evaluated together with complex and time consuming tasks such as … Read more
Most Aircraft types, typical line maintenance tasks would include a daily check and a weekly check. A daily check is performed anywhere from every 24 to every 48 hours. A weekly check is performed every 7-8 days. Apart from that, there may be several OOP (out of phase) maintenance tasks which can be considered to be line … Read more
In this video Boeing 747 Aircraft going for D check at british Airways maintenance hangar.
Aircraft maintenance checks are periodic inspections that have to be done on all commercial/civil aircraft after a certain amount of time or usage. (military aircraft normally follow specific maintenance programmes which may or may not be similar to those of commercial/civil operators). Airlines and other commercial operators of large or turbine-powered aircraft follow a continuous … Read more
Line maintenance: The maintenance is done on the flight line, basically on the apron out in the open. Line maintenance can be up to A check. Base maintenance: The maintenance work is done in a hangar, with appropriate platforms perform access aircraft components.Special tools and equipments are used. Third-party just means that someone else than the … Read more
A pitot-static system is a system of pressure-sensitive instruments that is used on aircraft to determine an Aircrafts airspeed, Mach number, altitude, and altitude trend. A pitot-static system generally consists of a pitot tube, a static port, and the pitot-static instruments.This equipment is used to measure the forces acting on a vehicle as a function … Read more