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FAA FAA 6000.15 Document Information:
Title
GENERAL MAINTENANCE HANDBOOK FOR NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM (NAS) FACILITIES
Federal Aviation Administration
Publication Date:
Sep 28, 2007
Scope:
This order establishes common maintenance and certification
requirements for all systems, subsystems, and services in the NAS,
and maintenance standards for all FAA maintained facilities. This
order takes precedence over the 6000 series maintenance
handbooks.
a. General Maintenance Philosophy.
The ATO Maintenance Program is dedicated to ensuring safety and
providing the best possible service for the lowest possible cost.
The FAA is continually improving NAS systems and services, and
ensuring the requirements of the customers are being anticipated
and met. All maintenance activities incorporate stringent practices
to ensure services are safe, available, and reliable. Maintenance
personnel must give environmental and national defense issues full
consideration in the planning and execution of NAS maintenance
activities
b. Certification.
Certification is a quality control method used by the ATO to
ensure NAS facilities are providing their advertised service. The
ATO employee's independent discretionary judgment about the
provision of advertised services, the need to separate profit
motivations from operational decisions, and the desire to minimize
liability, make the regulatory function of certification and
oversight of the NAS an inherently governmental function.
Verification is a similar quality control process used by non-
Federal personnel (as defined in FAR 171, Order 6700.20,
Non-Federal Navigational Aids and Air Traffic Control Facilities,
and AC 150/5220-16, Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS) for
Non Federal Applications). The ATO provides oversight of the
verification process for non-Federal systems.
c. Maintenance Activities.
The ATO implements a combination of maintenance methods to
achieve a Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) program. The goal
is to maintain each facility, with the required level of safety,
reliability and availability using the most efficient approach to
maintenance. RCM involves identifying maintenance activities that,
when taken, will reduce the probability of failure or extend the
service life of the equipment. RCM provides the optimum combination
of Periodic, Condition-Based, and Run-to-Fault approaches.
d. Risk Management.
Risk management is a general term frequently used to describe a
process for identifying hazards, analyzing risks and monitoring
them. It includes operational risk and safety risk. The process is
used to quantify and mitigate the probability or severity of an
undesired event which may have a significant impact to the safety
of the NAS. Such undesired events may include any of the
following
(1) Adverse impact to the safety of flight.
(2) Adverse impact to personnel safety.
(3) Programmatic impacts which cause schedule
impacts or cost overruns to a program or initiative.
(4) Budgetary impacts which decrease revenue or
increase costs.
(5) Impacts to airline schedules or on-time
arrivals and departures.
(6) Impacts to facility/service metrics such as
availability or reliability. These consider:
(a) The criticality of the service
provided.
(b) The criticality of the system's function
within the NAS.
(c) Whether a scheduled interruption is
required and properly coordinated.
(d) Whether this service or system is redundant
or contains a single point of failure.
(e) Whether the interruption occurs during peak
traffic periods.
(f) Weather conditions.
e. Restoration.
When unscheduled interruptions occur and corrective maintenance
is necessary, system or service restoration requires the efficient
use of appropriate resources, to minimize the interruption/outage
and to meet customer requirements.
PURPOSE.
This order provides overall maintenance philosophy, general
maintenance policy, procedures, and requirements essential for
managing and maintaining the National Airspace System (NAS).
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