CHAPTER 7
Maintenance
One of the axioms of golf states, “You drive for show and putt for dough,” implying that the glory goes with the first activity and the critical substance of the game goes with the second. The same is often said of the difference between flying and maintaining in the world of business and personal aviation.
The real essence of this type of aviation is having an aircraft ready when somebody wants to go somewhere. The pilots are supposedly always available via their pagers, but what about the aircraft? If it is not ready to go virtually all the time, the basic reason for having the aircraft is compromised. The aircraft may be officially out of service for certain periods of scheduled maintenance, but even then, it is usually ...
Get Business and Corporate Aviation Management, Second Edition, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
