PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-716
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 716
JULY 2012
24
PS 716
JUL 12
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M
echanics, entering the Black Hawk cockpit from the cabin during maintenance
can be a double-jointed exercise that puts the center console in harm’s way.
It’s best to use the cockpit doors to enter the cockpit. Getting out of the cabin
and entering the cockpit using the cockpit doors may seem like a waste of time and
energy, but it is necessary to avoid damage.
Every time you climb into the cockpit from the cabin and don’t lift your feet high
enough to clear the center console, chances are you’ll kick and knock off a knob,
switch or button.
For example, if you kick any of the center console components like the
intercommunications control system (ICS) component and its knobs, buttons and
switches, you could be without communication.
Keep in mind that if you knock off buttons, knobs and switches on some of the
components, the entire component has to be replaced.
M
echanics, DA Pam 738-751,
Functional Users Manual for the Army Maintenance
Management System
(TAMMS-A) should rank up there with a man’s best friend when it
comes to learning how to fill out aviation paperwork.
Sometimes, that is not the case because DA Form 2410,
Component Removal and Repair/
Overhaul Record
is being filled out partially or not at all when a TB 1-1500-341-01 tracked
component is removed.
No matter what else you do after a component is removed, you must record all
maintenance information on the 2410 detailing what was done before you send it off to
support. Now that the 2410 is online, it’s important to make sure every tracked component
is accurately updated on the maintenance consolidated database system (MCDS) before
you step foot out of the hangar and head off to support for equipment turn-in and repair.
Remember, the 2410 feeds the MCDS database.
Knowing what components are tracked is important. Not knowing is bad for you and
your aircraft.
Some parts are tracked by time while others are tracked by flight hours. Failure to
document any tracked component, part or circuit card when it’s removed from an aircraft
could lead to over-flying them by time or flight hours. If there is incomplete or partial 2410
tracking, that leads to needless and premature replacement of parts and components. You
could also face extended aircraft on ground (AOG) time, and waste lots of money changing
out good parts that have not reached their limits.
Flying an aircraft with expired components or parts puts you and your aircraft in harm’s
way. So eyeball that 2410 and make sure you annotate every maintenance detail so a
complete history can be maintained on tracked items.
UH-60A/L/M…
Watch
Out
for
the
Feet!
All
Aircraft…
Maintaining Maintenance Records
the best
defense against
damage to the
center console
is to resist the
urge to climb
into the cockpit
from the cabin.
use the
cockpit
doors
instead.
Mechanics, we’d like to
introduce you to the
new
man’s best friend!
it’s man’s
second
best
friend!
OK!
OK!
why
do they
keep coming into
the cockpit from
the
cabin?!
Doesn’t any-
body think about
my
buttons?
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