AET Documentation and Reporting 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the purpose of a Repair Station's Capability List (CL)?
- Lists all employees and their certifications
- Specifies the articles the repair station is authorized to maintain, repair, or alter (Correct answer)
- Documents customer complaints and resolutions
- Tracks inventory of spare parts
Correct answer: Specifies the articles the repair station is authorized to maintain, repair, or alter
A Repair Station's Capability List details the specific articles and functions the station is authorized to perform under its certificate.
Question 2: When filling out a squawk sheet, which entry is most critical for the next technician to understand the fault?
- The part number of all components checked
- A clear, specific description of the observed symptom and conditions when it occurred (Correct answer)
- The pilot's name and flight hours
- The cost estimate for repair
Correct answer: A clear, specific description of the observed symptom and conditions when it occurred
A precise symptom description including conditions of occurrence allows the next technician to efficiently troubleshoot and reproduce the fault.
Question 3: Under the Aviation Safety Hotline program, reports of safety concerns are submitted to which agency?
- NTSB
- TSA
- FAA (Correct answer)
- OSHA
Correct answer: FAA
The FAA operates the Aviation Safety Hotline allowing individuals to report safety concerns, violations, or hazardous conditions anonymously.
Question 4: An Aircraft Service Difficulty Report (SDR) is required when?
- Any time a part is replaced
- When a failure, malfunction, or defect that could endanger safe operation is discovered (Correct answer)
- Only after fatal accidents
- When the aircraft is sold
Correct answer: When a failure, malfunction, or defect that could endanger safe operation is discovered
SDRs must be filed when a failure, malfunction, or defect that could endanger safe flight is discovered during maintenance.
Question 5: What does the term 'back-to-birth traceability' mean in avionics parts documentation?
- Tracking a part's entire history from manufacture through all subsequent repairs and installations (Correct answer)
- Recording the birth date of the technician who installed the part
- Logging the aircraft's original delivery date
- Documenting when a part first failed
Correct answer: Tracking a part's entire history from manufacture through all subsequent repairs and installations
Back-to-birth traceability means maintaining complete documentation of a part from its original manufacture through every repair, overhaul, and installation.
Question 6: A technician signs off on an annual inspection. Where must the inspection sign-off entry appear?
- Only in the shop's work order file
- In the aircraft's maintenance records (logbooks) (Correct answer)
- On the aircraft's instrument panel placard
- In the FAA registry database directly
Correct answer: In the aircraft's maintenance records (logbooks)
Annual inspection results must be entered in the aircraft maintenance records (logbooks) per 14 CFR 43.11.
Question 7: When using a Manufacturer's Service Bulletin (SB) as maintenance guidance, what determines whether compliance is mandatory?
- The service bulletin's issue date
- Whether an Airworthiness Directive (AD) has been issued mandating the SB (Correct answer)
- The technician's judgment
- The aircraft owner's preference
Correct answer: Whether an Airworthiness Directive (AD) has been issued mandating the SB
A service bulletin becomes mandatory only when the FAA issues an Airworthiness Directive that specifically requires compliance with that bulletin.
AET Documentation and Reporting 3
What is the purpose of a Repair Station's Capability List (CL)?