354. Definition of an Equipment List and Standard Form for Presentation of Weight and Balance Data Status
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Paper
Abstract
This paper was presented at the Twenty-first Annual National Conference of the Society of Aeronautical Weight Engineers at Seattle, Washington, May 14-17, 1962. At the 1061 National Conference of the Society of Aeronautical Weight Engineers in Akron, Ohio, a discussion was held as the start of the Airline sponsored Society project to ‘Define an Airplane Equipment List’. This discussion was of an investigative nature only; an attempt to determine the common ground between what CAR currently requires, what the manufacturer can provide, and what the airlines would like to have in the way of an airplane equipment list.
It readily became apparent that this sort of thing cannot successfully be defined in a few sentences of even paragraphs. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that a rather detailed listing of items was the best way to define the matter.
Just prior to the 1961 Conference, United put the ATA Specification 100 Aircraft Index file system (1-2-1) into effect. Doubtlessly other operators employed this system earlier. It will be recognized that this lends itself naturally to a group weight breakdown coding system that now has universal acceptance both in North America and Europe. It is used by the manufactures in the organization of their Maintenance and Instruction Manuals. Informal investigation indicates that the organization of an equipment list in accordance with coding would be acceptable to the manufactures. Further, it should be immediately compatible with the operator’s group weight breakdown in the area of project accomplishment.
