AE6002 Aircraft General Engineering and Maintenance Practices

AE6002 AIRCRAFT GENERAL ENGINEERING AND MAINTENANCE MAINTENANCE L T P C PRACTICES 3 0 0 3 OBJECTIVES

To teach the students about the basic concepts of aircraft general engineering and maintenance practices.

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UNIT I AIRCRAFT GROUND HANDLING AND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 10

Mooring, jacking, leveling and towing operations – Preparation – Equipment – precautions – Engine starting procedures – Piston engine, turboprops and turbojets – Engine fire etinguishing – !round power unit. UNIT II GROUND SERVICING OF VARIOUS SUB SYSTEMS 8

 "ir conditioning conditioning and pressuri#ation pressuri#ation – $%gen $%gen and oil oil s%stems – !round units and and their maintenance. UNIT III MAINTENANCE OF SAFETY 5

&hop safet% – Environmental cleanliness – Precautions UNIT IV INSPECTION 10

Process – Purpose – T%pes – 'nspection intervals – Techniques – (hecklist – &pecial inspection  – Publications, bulletins, various manuals – )"* "ir worthiness directives – T%pe certificate +ata sheets  – "T" "T" &pecifications &pecifications UNIT V AIRCRAFT HARDWARE MATERIALS SYSTEM PROCESSES 12

and tools – Precision instruments – &pecial tools and equipments in an airplane maintenance shop  – 'dentifiation 'dentifiation terminolog% terminolog% – &pecification &pecification and correct correct use of of various aircraft aircraft hardware hardware -i.e. nuts, nuts, bolts, rivets, screws etc – "merican and /ritish s%stems of specifications – Threads, gears, bearings, etc – +rills, tapes and reamers – 'dentification of all t%pes of fluid line fittings. Materials, metallic and nonmetallic Plumbing connectors – (ables – &waging procedures, tests, "dvantages of swaging over  splicing.