Initial Exercises—Operate Asset

Initial Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of these initial exercises is to show the attendees how to do fleet management according to a few commonly used principles.

IMPORTANT
These initial exercises are intended for instructor use.

If you are a student, it is extremely important that you set up and work with your own assigned student number to maintain your data integrity.

Operational Planning

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create an operational plan for a test flight. This test flight should start and end up in LAX (Los Angeles). An aircraft model X747-900 is needed.

Windows:
Operational Planning
Serial Operational Information /Operational Event

  1. Open the Operational Planning window and create a new record. Enter TX111 as the Plan Number and select 4 as the Description Number.
  2. Specify a Start Date and End Date time interval.
  3. Select HQ as the Owner Organization.
  4. Use location value LAX for both the Departure Loc and Arrival Loc fields.
  5. Enter a value for the Distance in miles and the Note field.
  6. Save (F12).
  7. Click the Define Vehicle Models tab and create a new record.
  8. Enter an Item Number like e.g. 10.
  9. The values in the Planned Date From and Planned Date To fields are intended to indicate the vehicle engagement time and should reflect the period you specified earlier.
  10. Enter Planned Value = 4.
  11. Set the Number Of Serials field to 1.
  12. Select 7X7as the Product Number and X747-900 as the Model Number.
  13. Save (F12).
  14. Click the General tab. 
  15. Select the Plan Complete check box and save.
  16. Click the Assign Vehicles and Crew tab.
  17. Enter Part Number X747-900 and Serial Number X10000.
  18. Save (F12).
  19. Open the Serial Operational Information window and query for your serial number X10000.
  20. Click the Operational Event tab and identify your operational assignment.

Operational Logging

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show attendees how to log operational values according to actual use of the vehicle or serial. In this example we will register flying hours on the A/C (X10000). As we will see, we have to report twice before a maintenance due is reached.  

Windows:
Serial Operational Information
Serial Maintenance
Pending Tasks

Steps: To complete this exercise, perform the following steps.

  1. Open the Serial Operational Information window and then click the Operational Log tab.
  2. Query for the serial number X10000.
  3. In the lower part of the window you see the operational parameters and their current values (initialized to zero).
  4. Enter new operational values by adding 60 FHR and 20 FCYC in the Add On Value field.
  5. Save the information (F12).
  6. Right-click on the window header and click Serial Maintenance to open the Serial Maintenance window.
  7. Right-click on the window header and click Task Calculate. 
  8. Select the appropriate check boxes in the Task Calculate dialog box and click OK.
  9. Open the Pending Tasks window and query for the serial number X10000.
  10. Are there any pending tasks due? (There should not be any.)
  11. Return to the Serial Operational Information/Operational Log tab and add 40 FHR and 18 FCYC in the Add On Value field.
  12. Save the information (F12).
  13. Right-click on the window header and click Serial Maintenance to open the Serial Maintenance window again.
  14. Right-click on the window header and click Task Calculate. 
  15. Select the appropriate check boxes in the Task Calculate dialog box and click OK.
  16. Open Pending Tasks window and refresh (Shift + F5).
  17. An A-check task should have been generated for your serial X10000.
  18. Continue with the Task Distribution and Execution 1 - Simplified Work Order exercise.