Sampling program for aircraft maintenance

Aircraft operators and continuous airworthiness management organizations (CAMO) are essential to set up a sampling program for the fleet of aircraft for which they are responsible. Sampling programs validate that maintenance tasks occur at the specified sample threshold and interval frequency that are outlined in the Maintenance Planning Document (MPD) for each aircraft type within a fleet.

In OMPs, you can create and manage a sampling program of maintenance tasks for an aircraft fleet to meet regulatory compliance. Then, in the Master Task Card application, you specify maintenance tasks and set the frequency of the tasks.

In an OMP, you indicate that the aircraft is part of the sampling program. The sample group is made up of approximately 20 percent of the aircraft in the fleet and includes the newest aircraft and oldest aircraft in the fleet. You determine which aircraft in the fleet are the oldest and the newest based on the manufacture date and manually select the aircraft that are in the sampling program.

In the Master Task Card application, you can indicate the need for a sampling requirement and define the sample interval and sample threshold for the maintenance task. When a task card is created or updated from a master task card, then the sample interval and sample threshold are applied to the task card.

With maintenance task library (MTL) records, you can simultaneously manage multiple revisions of an MPD or OMP. On an MTL record, you can import the sample frequency details for maintenance tasks.