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Check which safety directives are still open on an aircraft

An aircraft's directive register runs to dozens of entries, and proving each one is satisfied means reading maintenance notes line by line. This app checks every directive against the record and says exactly which ones still need work.

For the continuing airworthiness engineerAerospace & Defense

Why it matters

Today's manual process, and the same job with the app

A continuing airworthiness engineer at an aircraft maintenance organization, reviewing one aircraft's directive register.

✕Today's manual process

1Read each directive, checking the aircraft's type, serial number, installed parts and past changes.
2Search the maintenance record, entry by entry, for the one that might satisfy it.
3Judge the entry, and recompute the next inspection date manually.
4One overlooked directive, and the aircraft flies with an open safety requirement.
Every directive checked manually, one at a time.

✓With the app

1Each directive is checked, automatically, against the aircraft's type, serial number, parts and past changes.
2The record is searched, entry by entry, for the one that addresses it.
3The entry is judged, against what the directive actually requires, not just its citation.
4Anything it can't confirm, is named and left open, never assumed closed.
Every directive checked, and every citation doubted.

See it work

One real case: what the app found, step by step

N-1296P's directive register cites three directives as complete, but the work described falls short on each one.

Check which safety directives are still open on an aircraftReference appBuilt to be shaped to your process
  1. 1The directive and its record AD-2023-09-25 needs an eddy current check, and a note says it's done.
  2. 2What the app decided Open: the work described stops short of what the directive needs.
  3. 3The same gap, a second time A general visual stood in for the required inspection, unapproved.
  4. 4A directive that's now closed The improved part was already installed, so this one no longer applies.

For engineers

How it is built, and how we measured it

All fourteen steps of the build are written up, from the business case to running it in your own environment.

Kit overview →
0 of 73open directives wrongly marked satisfiedmeasured in 06 Evals →
208 of 270directive entries reviewed exactly rightmeasured in 06 Evals →
12 of 148applicable directives dropped from the listmeasured in 06 Evals →
6.3¢to review one aircraft's directivesmeasured in 07 Unit cost →

The build, step by step

14 steps

Make it yours

What you see is a reference app. We shape it to how you work.

Every part of it is built to change, and none of it means starting over.

Your rulesYour directive register, your applicability logic, and the terms your engineers already use.
Your recordsYour own maintenance records and continuing airworthiness notes, kept exactly as they are today.
Your systemsConnects to your own maintenance and records system, not a spreadsheet copy.
Your screensThe fields and wording your continuing airworthiness team already uses every day.

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