| Module Title: | Technical Aircraft Leasing and Management |
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| Language of Instruction: | English |
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| Teaching & Learning Strategies: |
• Teaching will be a blend of lectures and case studies
• There will be at least one guest lecturer from a leading leasing company executive to cover the financial and legislative aspects of the industry.
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| Module Aim: |
To provide students with the knowledge and skills required to operate within the technical area of the aircraft leasing industry, manage engineering projects and to deal with ethical constraints in professional environments. |
| Learning Outcomes |
| On successful completion of this module the learner should be able to: |
| LO1 |
Appraise each of the major aircraft maintenance events and determine the equations used to compute the respective maintenance reserve rates. |
| LO2 |
Interrogate aircraft technical records to ensure compliance with the continuing airworthiness regulations. |
| LO3 |
Conduct a technical audit of a commercial aircraft and interpret the guidelines and best practices that ease the transferability of aircraft. |
| LO4 |
Apply project management skills to engineering projects. |
| LO5 |
Assess ethical constraints in professional environments and the ethical implications of decisions made by engineers |
| Pre-requisite learning |
Module Recommendations
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is recommended before enrolment in this module.
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| No recommendations listed |
Incompatible Modules
These are modules which have learning outcomes that are too similar to the learning outcomes of this module. |
| No incompatible modules listed |
Co-requisite Modules
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| No Co-requisite modules listed |
Requirements
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is mandatory before enrolment in this module is allowed. |
| No requirements listed |
Module Content & Assessment
| Indicative Content |
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Maintenance Reserves
- Maintenance Utility consumed
- Maintenance reserves economics
- Reserves for Airframe Inspections, major component restorations and LLPs
- Effect of ageing aircraft
- Sample lease contract/s
- Managing the Contract
- Maintenance reserves coverage and exposure
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Airworthiness Directives
- Publication of AD’s
- AD status listing, applicability, method of compliance.
- AD Dirty Fingerprints
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Part M
- ICAO-Chicago Convention
- Part M-continuing airworthiness and where it fits in to Regulations
- Part M-Subparts explained
- CAMO’s
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Aircraft Audits / Redeliveries
- Aircraft Audit -what’s expected.
- Technical records administration
- Component lists
- Mods, SBs, STCs
- Component Certificates
- Aircraft Redelivery considerations
- Closing gaps and understanding of what is vital and what “nice to have”
- Traceability - Back to birth records – “dirty fingerprints”
- Tech Log
- Acceptable Deferred Defects Record
- Maintenance programmes
- Status of aircraft in relation to MPD
- Company Maintenance programmes
- Structural sampling – fleet programs, sampling, standalone aircraft
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Project Management
Project management skills. Financial & scheduling tools. Organisational planning tools. Risk management: evaluating risks and control measures.
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Entrepreneurship
Company & contract law. Business funding & finance. Start-up companies. Business plans.
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Ethics
Safety, health and welfare of co-workers, clients, the public. Sustainable development & awareness of environmental issues. Intellectual property rights. Ethical constraints, ethical decision-making, ethical implications of engineering decisions.
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Enterprise Information Systems
Management functions & organisational structure. Enterprise Resource Planning. Engineering Change Order.
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Guest Lectures
There will be at least one guest lecture from a leading leasing company executive to cover the financial and legislative aspects of the industry
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Safety Management Systems
ICAO Annex 19 Overview, Risk Assessments
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Incident Response Planning
Overview of Critical Incident Stress Management system, Public relations and press releases, Media and communications, Roles & Responsibilities communicating through Social media
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| Assessment Breakdown | % |
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| Continuous Assessment | 100.00% |
| Continuous Assessment |
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| Assessment Type |
Assessment Description |
Outcome addressed |
% of total |
Assessment Date |
| Examination |
Mid term class test |
1,2,4 |
20.00 |
Week 6 |
| Examination |
End of term class test |
1,2,3,4,5 |
20.00 |
Week 12 |
| Project |
Students will complete projects / assignments, for example, a business plan for a start up company, an aircraft audit report, an Airworthiness Directive assessment report, a maintenance reserves report. |
1,2,3,4,5 |
60.00 |
n/a |
| No End of Module Formal Examination |
SETU Carlow Campus reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment
Module Workload
| Workload: Full Time |
| Workload Type |
Frequency |
Average Weekly Learner Workload |
| Lecture |
12 Weeks per Stage |
4.00 |
| Independent Learning Time |
15 Weeks per Stage |
5.13 |
| Total Hours |
125.00 |
Module Delivered In
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