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MD80 crew considers the company recently revised aircraft logbooks hard to use and prone to crew error.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 534831 |
| Time | |
| Date | 200201 |
| Day | Thu |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601 To 1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | airport : zzz.airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Altitude | agl single value : 0 |
| Environment | |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Controlling Facilities | tower : zzz.tower |
| Operator | common carrier : air carrier |
| Make Model Name | MD-80 Series (DC-9-80) Undifferentiated or Other Model |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | ground : parked |
| Person 1 | |
| Affiliation | company : air carrier |
| Function | flight crew : captain oversight : pic |
| Qualification | pilot : atp pilot : cfi pilot : flight engineer |
| Experience | flight time last 90 days : 160 flight time total : 16000 flight time type : 8000 |
| ASRS Report | 534831 |
| Person 2 | |
| Affiliation | company : air carrier |
| Function | flight crew : first officer |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | other anomaly other |
| Independent Detector | other flight crewa other flight crewb |
| Resolutory Action | none taken : anomaly accepted |
| Consequence | other |
| Supplementary | |
| Problem Areas | Company |
| Primary Problem | Company |
Narrative:
Our aircraft maintenance logbook is a very poorly designed document even after being reformatted within the past 6 months. The airworthiness block was not properly filled. Instead of being on the current page, it is sometimes 3-6 pages back from the current page.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: MD80 CREW CONSIDERS THE COMPANY RECENTLY REVISED ACFT LOGBOOKS HARD TO USE AND PRONE TO CREW ERROR.
Narrative: OUR ACFT MAINT LOGBOOK IS A VERY POORLY DESIGNED DOCUMENT EVEN AFTER BEING REFORMATTED WITHIN THE PAST 6 MONTHS. THE AIRWORTHINESS BLOCK WAS NOT PROPERLY FILLED. INSTEAD OF BEING ON THE CURRENT PAGE, IT IS SOMETIMES 3-6 PAGES BACK FROM THE CURRENT PAGE.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2007 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.