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Big Changes in the Regulations

For those of you new to the aviation industry and/or new to Canada, the following abbreviations are all commonly [...]

Composite Structure and the House of Commons

Preamble I am providing this preamble to clarify the meanings of abbreviations that I use here. For those of [...]

The Regs: Data for Major Repairs and Modifications

The following abbreviations are used here and are often used in the aviation industry. You may come upon them [...]

Deep Inside CAR 573

Someone in your shop definitely needs to know “the regs” if the plan is to sub-contract work this year. [...]

The Lack of Proper Focus

One private pilot’s legal wrangle with Transport Canada raises the larger issues of fairness and common sense. TC might [...]

Issues Related to Quality Insurance — The Regs

The International Organization for Standardization develops and publishes the International Standards including ISO 9000, which are the top documents [...]

OEMs & the TC Holder

I am providing this preamble to clarify my usage of abbreviations, etc. These abbreviations are all commonly used in [...]

The Minister Does It Again

I am providing this preamble to clarify my usage of abbreviations, etc. These abbreviations are all commonly used in [...]

“Who CAIRS” & other regulations

Transport Canada has several ways of dealing with people like me. The first is to ignore me, the second [...]

The Regs: Acronyms & Initialisms

Occasionally, I discuss the lack of interest that Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (AME) have outside their own little world of [...]

The Regs: Consistency

Once again, we start out with a letter from a reader. Martin Grechan wrote his “Letter To The Editor” [...]

The Regs Oct-Nov 2012

In my last column, I made a last-minute addition referring to approval of major repairs and modifications for importing [...]