Do you recognise this? A few days before each lease transition check you start having nightmares again. From dents and scratches to cracks and buckles, assessing damage and compiling accurate reports is a challenging and time-consuming task. Yet, it is fundamental to ensure the aircraft’s airworthiness.
What if you could make this process a bit smoother?
At Mainblades we recognized that damage mapping using traditional methods is inconsistent and prone to error. As it happens with aircraft inspections, generating a dent and buckle chart is a human-dependent procedure, which contributes to the subjectivity of the results. The engineer needs to be accurate in his work, identifying and reporting deviations, which can become a problem when he is tired or under time pressure. Some of the biggest challenges that may lead to missing damages include:
Forget cherry pickers because our drone inspection solution paired with our iPad application relieves aircraft engineers of these struggles. It can be used to perform automated visual aircraft inspections both indoor and outdoor and helps you go toward a paperless process, providing digital reports with precise location of all defects. With the inspection time slashed to minutes and damage assessment being more reliable, faster and informed decisions can be made with regards to aircraft repair and availability.
Our iPad application also gives you easy access to past inspections as all data and reports are stored on a cloud platform. This allows engineers to focus on their true expertise: analysing defects and making informed decisions on the maintenance tasks to be performed.
Our iPad application includes a dent-and-buckle feature which allows to record and review all structural damages on the outside of the aircraft in a much more reliable way. It is part of the Onboard Documentation and kept in the aircraft cockpit. The dent-and-buckle chart marks the location of the aircraft damage with a number on 2D pictures. In an overview table, all damages are listed with its location, dimensions, and reference to approved data.
As the main source stating the presence and the location of external structural damages used by the flight or ground crew, the dent-and-buckle chart should be enclosed and maintained in an Aircraft Technical Log Book on board retainer. It needs to be reliable and accurate. Our solution ensures exactly that. From data collection to report generation, the process of visual aircraft inspections has never been easier, faster and safer
