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04
AIRWORTHINESS LIMITATIONS

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AIRWORTHINESS LIMITATIONS

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AIRWORTHINESS LIMITATIONS • For External Hoist Operations: 1.65 Lift per Flying Hour, calculated on
at least 100 FH basis.
Any mission profile using more cycles per hour than those listed above
GENERAL requires the retirement lives to be recalculated and approved by EASA.
If parts with the same part number can be interchanged between different
This is the chapter 04-00 of the Aircraft Maintanance Planning Information AW139 variants, the retirement life of the part must be restricted to the
(AMPI). The AMPI gives all the data necessary for the maintenance planning lowest value between those variants.
of the AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter. No tolerance is permitted on the Retirements Lives.
Chapter 04-00 provides the airworthiness limitations applicable to the
AW139 helicopter.
The airworthiness limitation are approved by EASA (or other Authority, like
FAA or IAC-AR) and cannot be changed without approval.
The airworthiness limitations includes the following contents:
• The retirement lives
• The mandatory inspections
• The certifications requirements

RETIREMENT LIVES
These parts must be mandatorily retired from service when the indicated
retirement life is reached. This also applies to all those non-serialized
standard parts with connect the indentified assembly component.
The retirement life specified for any given part number contained in this
section applies to indicated and all successive dash numbers for that item, if
not differently specified.
All retirement lives are expressed in Flying Hours (FH), if not differently
specified. Flying hours are defined as those hours accumulated from take-off
landing.
The retirement lives of some parts are expressed in “landings” because their
life is dependent upon the rotor start-stop cycles and the helicopter ground-
air-ground cycles.
If not differently specified, the retirement lives are based on the following
assumptions:
• 800 landings in 100 flying hours, including 400 rotor start-stop cycles.
• 20 percent of usage in CAT. A Training Operations, on yearly basis.
• For External Load Operations: 6 External Load Cycles and 3 Landings
per Flying Hour, calculated on at least 100 FH basis;

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RETIREMENT LIVES (SHEET 1 OF 2)

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MANDATORY INSPECTIONS
These parts must be mandatorily inspect when the interval is reached.
No tolerance is permitted on Mandatory Inspections.
The mandatory inspection can be:
• General visual inspection (GVI): A visual examination that will find sing
of faults. Removal of panels, cowlings, doors and adjacent components
for acces can be necessary.
• Detailed Inspection (DVI): A full visual examination of an item/
component, an assembly or an installation. It examines for sing of
faults with sufficient light source, mirror, hand lens or other applicable
tools. Procedure to clean and get acces to the items can be necessary.
• Special Detailed Inspection (SDI): A full examination of an area or a
componant as for detailed examination. Non-destructive tests and high
powered magnification are necessary. It can also be necessary to
disassemble a component.

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MANDATORY INSPECTIONS (SHEET 1 OF 2)

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MANDATORY INSPECTIONS (SHEET 2 OF 2)

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CERTIFICATION MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENTS
This section gives you the data about the mandatory maintenance checks
identified during the certification process.
The parts listed in the schedule that follows must be mandatorily inspected
when the indicated interval is reached.
No tolerance is permitted on Certification Maintenance Requirements.
Certification Maintenance Requirements include activities such as:
• General Visual Inspection (GVI): A visual examination that will find
singns of faults. Removal of panels, cowlings, doors and adjacent
componants for acces can be necessary.
• Detailed Inspection (DI): A full visual examination of an item/
component, an assembly or an installation. It examination for sing of
faults with sufficient light source, mirror, hand lens or other applicable
tools. Procedures to clean and get acces to the items can be
necessary.
• Special Detailed Inspection (SDI): A full examination of an area or a
componant as for a detailed examination. Non-destructive tests and
high powered magnification are necessary. It can also be necessary to
disassemble a component.
• Functional Check (FC): The procedure necessary to make sure that a
system, equipment or component operates correctly. Test equipment
can be necessary.
• Operational Chack (OC): The procedure necessary to make sure that a
component or system operates. No test equipment is used and it is not
necessary to compare with limits or tolerances.
• Visual Check (VC): A visual check is an observation to determine that
an item is fulfilling its intended purpose. Does not require quantitative
tolerances. This is a failure finding task.

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