Creating discrepancies and corrective actions

Depending on the overall aircraft status, you can report discrepancies and change the aircraft status. You can resolve the discrepancy by recording the corrective action and completing the discrepancy. If more work is needed to complete the discrepancy, you can generate the corresponding work orders.

About this task

If mandatory failure reporting is required for the aircraft, then you must specify failure information on the Failure Details tab. Whether failure reporting is mandatory is defined in the aircraft's flight log book setup record.

Procedure

  1. In the List tab of the Flight Log Book application, select a record.
  2. To report the discrepancy and its corrective action, click the Aircraft Inspection and Maintenance tab and specify the details of the discrepancy:
    1. Specify the discrepancy information and the corrective action. The default discrepancy status is GROUNDED, but you can change it to another status.
    2. In the Aircraft Inspection and Maintenance tab, specify the report type, such as PIREP for pilot reported or MIREP for mechanic reported.
    3. In the Failure Details tab, specify a failure classification and a failure code. When a work order is generated from a discrepancy record, the failure classification and code is included in the work order.
    4. Optional: To create a work order to complete the correction, click the Create WO icon. The work orders that you create are linked to the discrepancy records that you created.
    5. Optional: To defer the corrective actions, click the Create Deferral icon.
  3. Save the record.
Parent topic: Managing flight log book records