Board Activities

Next Board Meeting

The next meeting of the Board will be in Melbourne in March 2012.

Nominations for Election to the Board  - 2012

Nominations for membership of the Board are now open, with the elections of members scheduled for March 2012. Interested persons should read the Board’s procedures posted on the Publications page of this site regarding the operation of the Board, its electoral procedures and what is required of its members, before contacting the secretary with their expression of interest.

Symposium - Quality and Testing in Aircraft Maintenance 14-15 November 2012

 The NANDTB agreed at its recent meeting that it would organise and host a symposium in Sydney in November 2012. The theme of this symposium extends beyond NDT to capture quality and compliance issues which underpin any effective Inspection and Quality program in aircraft maintenance, and of course NDT. The board will bring together a range of presenters over two full days on NDT and related subjects such as quality, human factors, regulatory compliance, training and others.

 

This event is targeted at a range of aircraft maintenance professionals responsible for quality, maintenance, audit, inspections, NDT and compliance.  As an incentive to join us in Sydney , the Board will maximise its value to those attending and to the employers who send them, by generously subsidising registration costs. 

Click here to link to the Call for Papers, and Instructions to Authors.


NANDTB Procedures

The operating procedures of the Board are always subject to revision and addition or removal. The procedures shown in the publications section of this site are the latest versions and the only ones which are valid. The suite of procedures not only gives an insight into how the Board operates, it also is the location for much of the specific guidance and interpretation offered by the Board.

CASA Ageing Aircraft Regional Seminars

CASA is organising regional awareness and feedback meetings for owners and maintainers of older aircraft under the program “Take a closer look”. The first meeting is scheduled for September in Canberra. Wendy McIntosh is the program co-ordinator;

wendy.mcintosh@casa.gov.au

The program is targeted at the GA sector to highlight to aircraft operators that they, and not the maintainers, are responsible for the airworthiness of their aircraft. It describes an ageing aircraft management plan. One of the key points is that an aircraft can be fully maintained in accordance with Schedule 5, with all its requirements addressed, yet still not be airworthy. Cracks, corrosion and wiring degradation are all to be expected over the life of an aircraft, and may be found during regular inspections. The trend borne out of experience however, is that as aircraft age they find new, and more worryingly, unanticipated ways to fail. The seminars offer the opportunity for feed back and to leave participants with some fundamental knowledge of:

  • the common effects of ageing i.e. fatigue, corrosion, etc

  • the potential consequences of ageing effects i.e. failures etc

  • the common causes and likely locations of ageing

  • the warning signs and methods of detecting ageing

  • methods of preventing and/or mitigating the ageing effects

  • where to find more information on the ageing aircraft phenomenon

The NDT presentation given to the Aircraft Airworthiness and Sustainment Conference can be downloaded here  [PDF 5MB]