 Key role in planning and scheduling, makes it heart of maintenance and engineering program  Primarily responsible For planning and scheduling all aircraft maintenance activities within the airline.

 Centralized- forecasting planning and control done with in the organization with liaison at work centers during actual work  Decentralized forecasting and planning done by organization and control done by personal at work center  Most companies decentralized  Overseen by a manager and followed with maintenance planner and long range planner

 In charge of planning department and it's functions.  Must be able to work with other parts of companies  Route airplane to maintenance base in timely manner  Take appropriate and nessisary actions which may affect the airlines daily operations

 May be assigned to different maintenance bases and tracks the babe and usually contact for planning schedule  Primary function to develops all scheduled work and/or work scope needs for all line maintenance and hanger maintenance.  Tracks completion of all planned work

 Does both short term and long term planning and forecasting of aircraft maintenance ( C checks, main base visit checks, structural repair, painting, lease returns, retirement, and up coming airworthiness directive)  Develops work plan, ascertained logistics availability, and picks out with facility can better do the maintenance

 Function actually does forecasting planning and control  Old saying in book that captures gist of PP&C “plan your work, and work your plan”  Production planning does the plan, control works the plan.

 Activities include establishing maintenance workload for existing fleet, creating business plans, and being aware of any changes in the forecasting period.  Includes long-term, intermediate term, and short term forecast.  Long-term is for 5-10 years and general in nature and subject to revision  Intermediate is for 3-5 years for large companies  Short is for 1-2 years and pays attention to detail and manpower.

 Deals with day to day activities  Involves scheduling upcoming maintenance, and includes scheduling details and timeframe requirements.  Involves planning of all maintenance activities; daily, 48 hour, transit checks, letter checks, and modifications.

 Some are daily, 48 hour, biweekly, or weekly checks.  PP&C responsible for scheduling and assuring completion.

 If 2 or more Checks are scheduled on same day  Task card may require to do 2 different maintenance activities that are similar.  To reduce time and make sure some things are done twice, task cards may be combined.

 Checks may be broken into parts to reduce time and manpower.  Broken down into zonal type maintenance.  Depending on size of airline, may brake down “C” checks into intervals.

 Usually routine  May mix in less than “A” check maintenance and/or SB’s and SL’s that do not require parts or much time.  Still give work packages to review a week before scheduled date of maintenance.

 Done usually once a year.  Require more planning for take long time.  Consists of routine, variable routine, and nonroutine.  Routine are task done at specified interval  Variable routine are task that vary from one check to another  Nonroutine are task required from accomplishing routine task.

 Tracks the ongoing work of maintenance to help readjust for the better  Function allows for adjustment of the plan and keeps track of schedule.  If things go out of plan, then control tracks the problem and sees ways to better predict time for maintenance.  Actual schedule is destined to deviate

 Line maintance checks.  Are all for safety including, inspection inside, service of engine oil, hydrolic oil service, oxygen check, brakes inspections, and fuselage inspections  Planning is responsible for monitoring work performed and updating maintenance stations required.

 Important to know how much time is needed the perform the task so accurately planned.  More information known, better planning could be made  Less time on the ground, more time making profit.