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Save a Turbine Engine: Serve It Water Clare Leavens Award Joe Chase Award Aviall High Achievement Award Transport Canada Approved for R/T Save a turbine engine: serve it water Minimum equipment lists and dispatch deviation guides PAMA and AME news February -March 2015 Volume 13/Issue 5 Publication Mail Agreement No. 0041039024 and Return Undeliverable Canadian Addresses to Alpha Publishing Group (2004) Inc. Unit 7, 11771 Horseshoe Way, Richmond, BC, V7A 4V4 email: [email protected] $7.95 AMU-OFC-IFC.indd 1 1/29/15 7:28 PM AMU-OFC-IFC.indd 2 1/29/15 7:28 PM In perspective: Departments the P&WC PT6 nd here some of you thought Gran- 4 Upcoming Events dad put a lot of miles and years on his good ol’ Harley Flathead 45. Hah! 6 STCs & New Products AThat was nothing. Pratt & Whitney Canada 8 Industry Forum recently tweeted out that its venerable PT6 turbine has now clocked 400 million hours 20 AME Association of flight operation. and PAMA News Four hundred million! What does that 39 Classified even mean? Let’s calculate (roughly): There are 8,760 hours in any 365-day year. Di- 42 AMU Chronicles vide 400 million by 8,760 and you get By Sam Longo 45,662.100456621. Round that number off — without fac- toring in Leap, Aztec or dog years (this is al- Features ready getting too complicated for my lousy math)—and you’re now standing at 46,000 10 subscribe and download at www.amumagazine.com AMU is viewable online: years of service. Did I just do that right? As- Save a Turbine Engine: Serve it Water 10 suming I did (and that’s a big ask, I know) By Mike Broderick then we can break down that history into bite-sized pieces. According to a report post- ed in October on livescience.com, Neander- Minimum Equipment Lists 24 thals and humans first mated about 45,000 And Dispatch Deviation Guides years ago. By Gordon Walker So, there’s the perspective. Just how does that help you, the Air Maintenance Engineer, Going Strictly By the Book 28 in your day-to-day responsibilities? It doesn’t By Norm Chalmers at all of course, but it does put a remarkable power plant into some context. The PT6 en- gine family famously celebrated its 50th year Raising the Bar: Down to the Last Rivet 34 of operation in 2013. At that point almost Boeing 737-3H4, N632SW 50,000 PT6 engines had been manufactured and used on more than 130 different types of aircraft, ranging from the seminal Beech 87 of 1963 to Bell Helicopter’s initial order in 1968 of P&WC’s first turboshaft (the PT6T), AirMaintenance Update Published by Alpha Publishing Group (2004) Inc. Publication Mail Agreement Number 0041039024 and back again to the PT6A-powered King Unit 7, 11771 Horseshoe Way and Return Undeliverable Canadian Addresses to: Air business turboprop of 2012. Richmond BC V7A 4V4 Canada Alpha Publishing Group (2004) Inc. It’s been quite a ride for the PT6 fleet phone: (604) 214-9824 l fax: (604) 214-9825 Unit 7, 11771 Horseshoe Way Richmond BC V7A 4V4 Canada that Pratt & Whitney says has now logged 10 times more hours of flight than its near- email: [email protected] website: www.amumagazine.com est competitor. The company announced in editor: John Campbell Subscription Rates: 1 Year: $40 2 Years: $60 AirMaintenance Update is published 6X annually. early December 2014 that it would invest art director: Gregory Kero AirMaintenance Update may not be reproduced in over $1 billion in research and development publisher: Bill Carter whole or in part in any form without the express written over the next 4.5 years to develop its next sales manager: Bill Carter permission of Alpha Publishing Group (2004) Inc. Copyright 2015 Printed in Canada generation of engines. If you’re going to be in Advertising inquiries: (604) 214-9824 Corporate Member of: Orlando, March 2-5, for the 2015 HAI HELI- EXPO, it might be an idea to stop by and talk production manager: Chrissie Harvey circulation: Anne Gervin Helicopter to them about how they plan to spend that Association contributors: Mike Broderick, International money—and maybe chat about the PT6. Norm Chalmers, Sam Longo, Stuart McAulay, This publication neither endorses nor confirms the information contained within. The appropriate authorities should be Brian McNair, Gordon Walker, Sue Yost contacted prior to commencing work on any aircraft or — John Campbell aircraft part or procedure. Editor Publications Mail Registration No. 0007198278 ISSN 1703-2318 Feb/Mar 2015 AIRMAINTENANCE UPDATE 3 AMU-Section1-STCs-1.indd 1 1/29/15 7:53 PM Upcoming Events 2015 Twin Commander University CANADA AEA International Convention & Trade Show 2015 CHC Safety & Quality Summit April 8 – 11, 2015 March 23 – 25, 2015 Dallas, TX Vancouver, BC www.aea.net www.chcsafetyqualitysummit.com Maintenance, Repair, and Operations Northern Air Transport Association Americas Conference April 14 –16, 2015 Savannah, Georgia, will play host as the April 27 – 29, 2015 Miami, FL next Twin Commander University con- Yellowknife, NWT; www.dnn.nata-yzf.ca www.mroamericas.aviationweek.com venes this spring. 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Heli-Expo 2015 February 24 – March 1, 2015 The University also features product March 2 – 5, 2015 Geelong, Victoria and service exhibits staffed by Twin Com- Orlando, FL; www.heli-expo.com www.airshow.net.au mander authorized service centers and channel partner companies including Aviation Week Laureate Awards Aviation Electronics Europe SimCom, the exclusive provider of simu- March 5, 2015 March 25 – 26, 2015 lator-based Twin Commander pilot initial Washington, DC Munich, Germany and recurrent training. 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