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(More customer reviews)I had long anticipated the release of this book, having had the good fortune to work with the author at Boeing on the 777 in the mid-90's. I received my copy about four days ago and just completed reading it cover to cover including reviewing the enclosed CD ROM. Let me start with the CD. It contains a special addition of the Computerized Aviation Reference Library published by Summit Aviation. The CD that comes with the book is little more than an advertising gimmick for the full product. It includes only a small portion of the overall library and surprisingly, not even the most salient parts relating to the book. For example, FAR Part 145 which governs Repair Stations is omitted. Somewhat strange for a book with Repair in the Title.
As for the book, it provides a pretty good introduction to aircraft certification and air carrier maintenance. Unfortunately, almost half of the book is devoted to the former item, something that is well covered in the literature. The book opens with a discussion of how laws are made, something quite afield from day-to-day MRO activity. There are also numerous typos and editorial errors that hint at the book being rushed to the publishing house. Cases in point, the wrong name for FAR part 21 in Table 4-1 and the technical error of separating the discussion of Bilateral Airworthiness Agreements (BAAs) from Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreements. The latter is replacing the former, a point missed in the book. The book also comes with a fair amount of politicking by the author, most egregious in Chapter 6 on Airworthiness Directives. It would seem more appropriate in this type of book to explain what AD's are and how they operate than lecture the FAA on the proper way to write them.
The reader is not really introduced to maintenance practices until page 245, almost exactly two-thirds of the way through the book. Remember this is what the book was supposed to be a handbook of to begin with. The maintenance discussion is good as far as it goes, but really needed another hundred pages to do it justice. One last point, the book could really use a scrub for acronyms. In many cases, the reader is left to wonder what is really being discussed. Not everybody knows that an FSEU is a Flap/Slat Electronics Unit! I would suggest that this book needs a fairly rapid revision to correct numerous technical errors, a new title, and certainly a lower price. Jack - you needed and deserved a better editor.
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